- Short Stories, Science Fiction, Classics, Fiction
Also known as August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains, is a short story narrating the daily routine of an automated house, whose menial tasks continue, unimpeded for now, in the solitary aftermath of a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
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Contemplative, grave, bleak and intimate.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 30
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780895989628
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“In the living room the voice-clock sang, *Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock!* as if it were afraid that nobody would.”
Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, *The Martian Chronicles*, *The Illustrated Man*, *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. In recognition of his stature i
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