There Will Come Soft Rains

“I like "There Will Come Soft Rains" better.”

“My favorite rendition of this aired on X-Minus One”

“this isn't the standard text of Bradbury's story”

“This story is one of only a couple sci-fi short stories to creep me out enough that I still remember them vividly decades later.”

“I read the written version while listening to Nimoy's reading in the background.”

“It adds a mindful stillness that creates a poignancy.”

“most authors imagine technological progress, but don't also predict what societal changes it might bring”

“The bird scene at the end where it repeatedly smashes into the window really hit me”

“It seems quaint now, but it's astonishing how much the fear of war affected mid-century fiction.”

“Fun to witness all the things it got right, which we can now remark wasn't close at all.”

“Soviet era animation was creepy in its own right. This adaptation doubly so.”

“the most unrealistic part of this story is how all the IoT automation continues to work in the absence of the Internet”

“"Linoleum" very quickly conveys "kitchen floor", helps anchor the story in details familiar to his readers”

“Growing up, I hated this guy. Boring! Now, I can recognize writing talent.”

“This adaptation is heavily modified, but I think it adds to the whole thing.”

“Bradbury wrote rockets the way other writers wrote sunsets”

“No sci-fi writer could describe the launch of a rocket any more poetic than Ray Bradbury.”

“probably my favorite Bradbury short”

“I never cared much for “There Will Come Soft Rains”.”

“I enjoyed the writing itself, but didn't find the premise all that interesting.”

“Ray Bradbury has some great ideas, but I hate his writing style. It's far too flowery”

“A fiction of an intelligent machine, facing doom, deserving of pity.”

“The paragraph about the stove making dozens of breakfasts as the house collapses at the climax of the story is what always stuck with me most.”

“It's a very powerful poem.”

“It remains one of my favorites.”