i could talk for hours about there will come soft rains
2026-08-04 20:16:46
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TheBearbarianReturns :
Not to mention, we’re now reaching Fahrenheit 451 events now.
2026-08-05 02:13:58
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Irydesa Rose :
All summer in a day really screwed me up too
2026-08-04 13:36:46
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Zutatoes :
the most unrealistic part of the story is the kids were outside playing with a ball when the ai centers cooked them.
2026-08-04 19:28:21
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Matthew Martinez :
Surprised no one has mentioned the wild coincidence of “Tick-tock” being in the first sentence.
2026-08-04 16:04:20
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🍋Little Lola Lemonade🍋 :
I am haunted by “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. It’s about a girl and rain on Venus in a colony. Read it especially if you were teased or othered. it stays with me. You can find a movie of it from the lates 70s on yt.
2026-08-04 15:37:35
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Angrydad07 :
Bradbury will mess you up.
2026-08-04 15:07:25
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Kory Schmitz :
To quote my partner "There’s something poignant about living in the distant future and there *not* being a nuclear apocalypse happening. Like, bad as things are, they could be worse. And it wasn’t so long ago that people assumed it would be worse by this point. We are flawed little animals, and we are slow to change, but we do make things better eventually."
2026-08-05 00:05:31
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connelly :
I will be teaching the story for the last time this year after 46 years of teaching!
2026-08-04 20:54:16
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nicki_ :
If anyone’s interested in the poem within the story. It was first published in 1918 during WWI
2026-08-04 18:09:40
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alexxx0461 :
This short story is a lot less about how our smart homes will outlive us and more about how we’re b*mbing each other. It’s about how as humans we behave as a species and though it may not look exactly the same (no one can predict exactly what the future will look like) his story came true. We are all indifferent to the atrocities that surround us as we continue to live our everyday lives. 🇵🇸
2026-08-04 19:04:20
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Jay :
This is kinda on a similar note but didn’t the movie terminator when the robots took over was set in 2027
2026-08-04 11:55:16
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Dormilón 🌈 :
I found a link to that poem on my calendar this morning, and I have no recollection of putting it there. Thank you for reminding me of the date and what it means.
2026-08-05 04:06:19
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kaylin9591 :
God my fyp is is TOO good. I loved Ray Bradbury in middle school.
2026-08-05 03:17:26
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Greggy :
Whhaaaaaaa... I remember being in 3rd grade (in the 80s) listening to this record. My God. I am in the future. It never occurred to me it was a real date. Now we do have cars which drive themselves, rockets which land vertically, and AI. What a crazy thing.
2026-08-05 05:20:27
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B. :
So was he besties with Octavia Butler or what bc…
2026-08-05 05:44:57
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NewKodakSuper8 :
I love The Foghorn and when I was in college I wrote it into a screenplay for one of my finals
2026-08-05 05:28:18
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ondrey :
the rains were pretty hard today so i don’t think he was right
2026-08-05 05:32:30
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Macchio :
The Veldt would actually happen if iPads could manifest physical forms
2026-08-04 12:43:05
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Corbin Govers :
I love ray Bradbury. especially some of his weird early stuff like the reaper or the little assassin. but Something Wicked this Way Comes is the work that stuck with me.
2026-08-04 14:40:23
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Dark Table :
My headcanon is that it’s the same house from The Veldt.
2026-08-04 13:05:05
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Josh M. :
it's kind of nice at the end... I know it's kind of weird to empathize with a house but without humans it couldn't save itself from fire. And without the house, humans couldn't save themselves from the fire.
2026-08-04 16:42:29
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Eliot Rosewater :
You know the burnt, ashy outlines/silhouettes of kids throwing a ball? IRL I saw a black-spray-paint-stencil-collage on a fence of kids playing. This was maybe 2 weeks ago, I drove past and was like man, do I have a story for you 😬
2026-08-04 16:20:20
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Rebekah Elisabeth | Author :
I took a science fiction class as a junior in high school and we read The Martian Chronicles. This story has lived rent free in the back of my mind ever since.
2026-08-04 19:06:19
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Adam :
I read that story in the 7th grade and couldn’t remember who the author was! Thank you for unearthing that memory. Ironically I had the same thing happen with The Martian Chronicles, just forgot that was also him.
2026-08-04 14:33:30
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