The Veldt (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The early twenty-first century
- Setting: An American town
- Principal Characters: George Hadley, Lydia, Wendy, Peter, David McClean
- Genres: Short fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, Children, Twenty-first century, Obsession, Imagination, Satire, Technology, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: United States
The Story
George and Lydia Hadley are the proud owners of a “Happylife Home which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them.” This is the dream home of the story's futuristic world, and its most elaborate feature is a nursery, which can reproduce any scene in complete aural, visual, or olfactory detail in response to the occupants’ thought waves. The Hadleys’ children, Wendy and Peter, have used the nursery to conjure up such fantasies as Oz, Wonderland, or Doctor...
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