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There Will Come Soft Rains Book
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There Will Come Soft Rains

Ray Bradbury1950

Through Atompunk

An automated house keeps cooking breakfast and reading poetry after its family has been burned onto the wall by the Bomb. The push-button home and the mushroom cloud in one short story.

Through Apocapunk

An automated house keeps cooking breakfast for a family vaporized by a nuclear blast. Collected in The Martian Chronicles, it is the genre's most haunting image of machines outliving us.

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Close in spirit