Dec 31, 2009
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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