There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

8 comments

• purple-leafy 7 minutes ago
  Ray Bradbury has some great ideas, but I hate his writing style. It’s far too flowery, he’s on a spectrum that contains Hemingway at one extreme, and Bradbury near the other.

  I prefer Hemingway. Writing style at least.

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  • squigz 0 minutes ago
    Interestingly, I had the exact opposite reaction - I enjoyed the writing itself, but didn't find the premise all that interesting.
• andai 22 minutes ago
  This story was adapted into a short animated film in 1987:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc

  (Russian, with subtitles.)
• HomeDeLaPot 17 minutes ago
  The story of a smart home that can't tell when you're not home! :-)
• pmg101 2 hours ago
  Today is August 4, 2026
• Aloha 22 minutes ago
  One of my favorites of Bradbury’s.

  Haunting.
• pbronez 27 minutes ago
  Yeesh how bleak
• MengerSponge 47 minutes ago
  https://wnyc.org/story/bradbury-centennial-with-neil-gaiman

  Yetide Badaki's marvelous reading begins at 3:50
• tomhow 1 hour ago
  Earlier this year...

  There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847297 - Feb 2026 (52 comments)

  (I’ve turned off duplicate detection due to the significance of the date.)