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.
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.