Episode 26 - There Will Come Soft Rains (Ray Bradbury)

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TBD - To Be Determined

Bill Williamson, Dan Kamm

33 episodes

7 months ago

Classic scifi short stories ... some you know, some you don't. But all of them are worthy of another look.

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Classic scifi short stories ... some you know, some you don't. But all of them are worthy of another look.

Episode 26 - There Will Come Soft Rains (Ray Bradbury)

TBD - To Be Determined

35 minutes

1 year ago

Episode 26 - There Will Come Soft Rains (Ray Bradbury)

Theme: Our house … is a very, very, very smart house

Episode Connections
Authors, stories. Sara Teasdale, “There Will Come Soft Rains.” Dean Koontz, The Demon Seed. Alan Weisman, The World Without Us. James Tiptree Jr., “The Last Flight of Dr. Ain.” McSweeney’s.com. Fritz Lieber, “A Pale of Air.” Larry Niven, “Inconstant Moon.”
Films. The Demon Seed. I, Robot. Back to the Future. Mad Max. Planet of the Apes. Winnie the Pooh.
TV episodes, series. Ray Bradbury Theater. The Jetsons. The Jeffersons. Life After People. Little House on the Prairie.
Ideas. Nuclear holocaust. Automated houses. "Life" after the apocalypse.
Whoa - Hmmm - WTF. Dan says it is definitely a Hmmm story to begin with, but maybe a little bit a Hmmm - wtf. As in WTF did you humans do? Bill says it is a bit of Whoa because there are no humans.

Previous episode: James Tiptree Jr., “The Last Flight of Dr. Ain”
Next episode: Roger Zelazny, “For a Breath I Tarry”

Music Credit: "Ouroboros" Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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