There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
• Bradbury was born
August 22, 1920.
• He is a famous
horror, sci-fi, mystery
and fantasy writer.
• Best known works are
Fahrenheit 451, The
Illustrated Man, and
Dandelion Wine.
There Will Come Soft Rains
• The short story is an except from a
collection entitled The Martian Chronicles.
• The collection was published in 1950.
• Many of the short stories were based
around a futuristic society.
• Like many authors Bradbury was inspired
by the events that took place around him.
Hiroshima
• On Monday, August 6,
1945 the first atomic
bomb was dropped on
the Japanese city of
Hiroshima.
• It killed 80,000 people
instantly.
• Over the next year
over 100,000 people
died from radiation
poisoning.
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