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Here is yet another version of "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray #Bradbury: https://bsky.app/profile/bowiesongs.bsky.social/post/3msbhkca4ds27 - this (the full text) was the very first publication of the short story in Collier's magazine in 1950, with the date still set to 1985, not 2026 to which it was changed days later when it appeared in "The Martian Chronicles".

If you did not read There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury today - the most appropriate day to read it ever, never to be repeated again - then you'd better get on that right now.

#reading #scifi #shortstories #bradbury

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

Hey everybody, in case you missed it, today: August 4, 2026 is the exact day Ray #Bradbury picked to end the world, 76 years ago.

"There Will Come Soft Rains" 's title was a nod to Sara #Teasdale's "There Will Come Soft Rains," written in 1918 in reflection of the losses of the First World War and the influenza pandemic, and premised that the natural world would barely register humanity's disappearance.

Here's a pdf link, in case you'd like to reread it. It, in my opinion, is among the best short stories every written. (Granted, I'm a Bradbury fan girl.)

https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf

#fiction #scifi #alternatehistory #RayBradbury #ThereWillComeSoftRains

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

@the_roamer @PhilSalkie

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#Herbert's #DuneSaga

#TheMatrix saga

#Asimov's #FoundationTrilogy

#Orwell' #1984

#Asimov's #CompleteRobot

#Avatar

#Bradbury's #Fahrenheit451

#Williams #Otherworld saga

#TheFifthElement

#IndependenceDay

#2001ASpaceOdyssey

#MinorityReport

#BackToTheFuture

#TotalRecall

#Riddick

#Terminator saga

#PlanetOfTheApes saga

#Simmon's #Hyperion

#TheHandmaidsTale (not the book)

#Huxley's #BraveNewWorld

#Wells #TimeMachine

#2ndVariety

#Gattaca

RE: https://mastodon.social/@readit/116476587352622870

“Without #libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
-Ray Bradbury

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#books #reading #bookstodon #writers #RayBradbury #quotes #quote #book #booksky #BookTok #booklovers #Bradbury

“Without #libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
-Ray Bradbury

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Charles Keeping's illustration for 'The Foghorn' by Ray Bradbury. #RayBradbury #Bradbury #CharlesKeeping #sci-fi #scifi #sciencefiction #monster #dinosaur

@br00t4c sounds like a #Bradbury 😅

I often cite Ray Bradbury's brilliantly poignant short story "The Flying Machine" when talking about this ill-considered headlong rush for an "AI"-mediated society that is being thrust upon us.

Today I learned there's a version of that must-read short story in graphic short story format. Take the time to read and appreciate the point Bradbury was trying to make.

https://www.onverticality.com/blog/bradbury-flying-machine

H/T @stever

#ai #ethics #wisdom #society #tech #technology #bradbury #RayBradbury #TheFlyingMachine #GraphicShortStory #GraphicNovel #comics #ComicStrip

📖: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

2011 review: ★★★★★
2025 review: ★★★★★

#bookstodon #fahrenheit451 #bradbury

#UnDiaComoHoy 5 de junio de 2012 fallece el tremendo Ray #Bradbury, novelista y guionista estadounidense de ciencia ficción, autor de incontables cuentos cortos como Farenheit 451, Crónicas marcianas, entre otros, #historias de esas que te hacen pensar.

#libros #literatura

J’essaierai quand-même de rattraper un peu le programme des ouvrages incontournables de #Barjavel – de #Dominik j’ai pratiquement tout lu de très jeune age, comme #KarlMay, quoi. Au risque de m’obnubiler la cervelle j’attaquerai donc les grands classiques : « Ravage », « La nuit des temps », « La tempête » et « Le grand secret », et il paraît que #Barjavel fai(sai)t partie du curriculum des collèges en France : ma copie du « Voyageur imprudent » (que j’ai acheté d’occasion) contient tout un dossier d’exercices, des extraits de #HGWells, #Asimov, #Orwell, #Huxley, #Zamiatine, #Bradbury et al., et un chapitre préparatoire à l’épreuve de français du Brevet. 2/2

I notice in the YouTube comment section someone also credits Ray Bradbury for having a similar idea in Something Wicked This Way Comes. #Bradbury was also brilliant.

*Up to his house to watch him typing #Heinlein #Bradbury

Datahoarders became essential. They are the 'Book People' of our Dark Age.

#fahrenheit451 #raybradbury #bradbury #bookburning #datahoarder

@gutenberg_org 🧵The Martian Chronicles

“…a 1980 television three-episode miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's 1950 book The Martian Chronicles”

#movies #scifi #bradbury

https://youtu.be/pKgD8jhLrNQ?si=VIY8lyeJtGP6N0YC

I keep thinking of it in the context of present AI "art" rant.
One of my friends told me that she was fine with the idea of an artificiall intelligence doing her commissions, as long as it did it well enough.

But for me.. Idk, it just sounds terrible. For me, there's always a person behind any piece, their unique method, and this is no less important than the quality and accuracy of this piece.
Truly, when people pass away, they take with them a personal way of solving life's problems
#bradbury

We are presently 21 months and change from August 4, 2026 - “There Will Come Soft Rains” and 23 months from “The Million Year Picnic.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles

#books #ScienceFiction #bradbury #classics #reading

Ballard's Drowned World is 1962.

So far it gives me strong Bradbury, Pynchon, and Delaney feels.

Ray and JG were contemporary and I think it shows. In a good way!

It reminds me a lot of Dhalgren (1975), which I may rereread next because I kept losing interest carting around an enormous paperback that has since disappeared. No gay sex yet tho.

I won't reread Gravity's Rainbow (1973) again (I think), there's others I want to cover. Still have that kilo of a tome.

This is all probably somehow the fault of Paul Bowles.

@bookstodon #JGBallard #DrownedWorld #Pynchon #GravitysRainbow #Bradbury #PaulBowles

#Legal #MassSurveillance #AI #Oracle

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Forget the low-tech dystopias of #Bradbury's #Fahrenheit451 + #Orwell's #1984, #PhilipKDick's #MinorityReport is just around the corner, thanks to #AI and billionaires like #PeterThiel (#Palantir 3), #AIP et al 2)) 1) and #LarryEllison:

Via #BrandonVigliarolo / #TheRegister:

"👉#Oracle [CTO #LarryEllison]:
Your mass AI surveillance cloud platform👈

Envisaging the combination of #OracleCloud...

Cc @SrRochardBunson

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https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/oracle_ai_mass_surveillance_cloud/