It’s impossible to know the impact our stories have, but I honestly believe this story is some small part of the reason we have not yet had a nuclear apocalypse. Hope is a hell of a thing to fuel a lifestyle with, but it’s why I will always be a science fiction writer.
Sam J MillerToday is the day on which Ray Bradbury's “There Will Come Soft Rains” (pub'd 1950) takes place. It’s a short elegaic story about a smart home slowly dying after its owners are wiped out in a nuclear extinction event. Re-reading it now, I’m feeling softly sucker-punched by what it has to offer us.