While it is raining outside, the weather box informs the residents of the weather outside. The date is repeated three times and then the time for going to school is announced but no movements or footsteps are heard. The automatic system of the house announces the time for its residents to wake up while the automatic stove prepares breakfast and announces the time for it. The story ‘There will come soft rains’ opens with a morning routine in a computer-controlled automated house. When the whole world was afraid of nuclear weapons, such literature was produced which explained the negative aspects of scientific inventions. It is written in effect on technological advancements and their negative impacts on the world and humanity. The story ‘There will come soft rains’ is written a few years after the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. It foresees the future of the world where the technology is very advanced but humans are extinct.
The story has an important message about the disasters advanced technology causes. The house is scientifically operated, all its activities go on as usual even after its inhabitants are dead in an atomic explosion. There are no humans living in that house. The story is narrated in third-person narrative. It was then published in Bradbury’s ‘The Martian Chronicles’, the same year.
It was first published in the issue of Collier’s on. The short story ‘There will come soft rains’ which is also called ‘August 2026’ is science fiction with a dystopian concept. He was born on 22 August 1920 in Waukegan, USA and died on 5 June 2012 in California, USA. The short story ‘There will come soft rains’ is written by an American author and screenwriter named Ray Douglas Bradbury who was famous for writing fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction.
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