There Will Come Soft Rains

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There Will Come Soft Rains

• Ray Bradbury

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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.

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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.

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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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