Though this was relevant, since the West has decided that nuclear war isn't a big deal anymore.
poof there goes my own imagining of this world as a nuked retro-50s atompunk Fallout society
I had something similar, except in my own reading the whole neighborhood was intact; humanity had just vanished and this fully automated house and community just continued working in perpetuity for a human population that had simply ceased to exist. Nuclear annihilation makes perfect sense within the text of the story, but there was something inherently more sinister about my interpretation. I chalk it up to my youth.
now i wish i had read it when i was a child because i probably would have had a year worth of weird dreams from it.
i had a different interpretation of the story in my head. this is way darker, more industrial, and grimdark. i saw sort of light futuristic 1950s but in a devestated city with no living people. the surviving house more jetsons less industrial nightmarehouse
I've seen another version with a lot more pastel, and instead of the people being ash in their beds they're blast-shadows burned in to the pastel walls.
What's interesting is that sci-fi works were so laden with contemporary understanding that humans were going to ruin the world and possibly even more worlds with space travel that it landed authors like Bradbury on FBI watchlists. During the Cold War, the FBI thought that sci-fi had latent Communist ideals, and so they believed sci-fi was being used to take over academia. It just shows that even without being keen observers of the capitalist and liberal ideological foundation of western society post-industrial, anyone with a good imagination could see where we were headed. I think this was evinced even more by the fact that Bradbury himself became a staunch conservative in his later years and waxed poetic about Reagan and Bush.
I think this was evinced more by the fact that Bradbury himself became a staunch conservative in his later years and waxed poetic about Reagan and Bush.
Please, if I ever get old enough to get the kind of brainworms that would result in me being nostalgic about Obama, I want one of you to hunt me down and put a bullet in me. That's no way to live.
I remember being introduced to this short on :reddit-logo: some years back.
Around the same time I also found The Chernobyl Story, which I still stand by as one of the most interesting things I found on that site. Super interesting read and pretty impartial from what I recall.
The person who put this together wrote a book called Chernobyl 01:23:40 -- I never read the book tho. He also compiled one about Fukushima as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONfRTZhNjGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGW48EItyco
Some animations of the original poem, which i didn't know existed until I looked up the old animation.
Oh shit, I saw these ages ago and have been looking for them ever since. Thanks comrade!
In the videogame Fallout 3 you can find a house with blackened skeletons in all the beds. There is a robot nanny you can repair and once its operational you can give it a few orders. If you ask it to read the children a bedtime story it will go upstairs and recite this very poem to the tiny skeletons in their bedroom.
A sound of thunder was always my personal favorite story of his, cuz dinosaurs.
The movie... not so much lol
