Bradbury’s worlds of tomorrow

 

“There Will Come Soft Rains,” first published in Collier’s magazine, May 6, 1950

"Until this day, how well the house had kept its peace. How carefully it had inquired, ‘Who goes there? What’s the password?’ and, getting no answer from lonely foxes and whining cats, it had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation with self-protection which bordered on a mechanical paranoia."

 

“The Veldt,” originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, September 23, 1950

"The walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and presently an African veldt appeared, in three dimensions, on all sides, in color reproduced to the final pebble and bit of straw."

 

“The Murderer,” was included in The Golden Apples of the Sun, 1953

"When it wasn’t music, it was interoffice communications, and my horror chamber of a radio wristwatch on which my friends and my wife phoned every five minutes. What is there about such ‘conveniences’ that makes them so temptingly convenient? The average man thinks, Here I am, time on my hands, and there on my wrist is a wrist telephone . . ."

 

Fahrenheit 451, 1953

"And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind."

 

". . . he had visited the bank, which was open all night every night with robot tellers in attendance.”

DATE: March 2

 

TIME: 4:45 p.m.

 

GROUP: B-3(1), Level B1