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Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)
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This article presents an excerpt from Ray Bradbury's short story 'There Will Come Soft Rains,' which depicts a fully automated house continuing its routines in a post-apocalyptic, radioactive city. The narrative highlights the eerie persistence of technology in the absence of human life.
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.
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