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2026-08-04 21:08 UTC
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” published 76 years ago about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast: https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj = a shortened version of the short story, also summarized in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)#Plot_summary #Bradbury #dystopia #shortstory
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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz 2026-08-05 01:48
Yeah, Archive! Here is the full Ray #Bradbury #shortstory “There Will Come Soft Rains” - read by Leonard #Nimoy: https://archive.org/details/bradbury-nimoy/1-There+Will+Come+Soft+Rains.mp3