Jan 1, 2010

There Will Come Soft Rains | Overview

"There Will Come Soft Rains" is one of Bradbury's most famous stories. Also known as "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains," the story was first published in Bradbury's highly acclaimed collection The Martian Chronicles in 1950. Written in an era in which many people were concerned about the devastating effects of nuclear weapons, the story depicts a world in which human beings have been destroyed by nuclear force. The central irony of the story is that humans have been destroyed rather than saved by their own technology. The atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan,...