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Posted: 31 May 2026 at 2:38pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Easily one of Ray Bradbury’s most famous stories, adapted into comic form by Wally Wood in the Fifties, and included in an Artist’s Edition I picked up recently.

Hadn’t read the story in decades, which might be why I didn’t remember it ends on August 5, 2026.

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Posted: 31 May 2026 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
Yeah, I noted that with some alarm a few weeks back. Revised edition has moved the dates thirty years back or so, but Bradbury’s original (and the EC version) keeps the original 2026.

For additional fun flavor, the company I work for does a big chunk of smart home automation, so this story and ‘The Veldt’ have never been too far from my mind.
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Posted: 01 June 2026 at 7:30pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
I will say that the title alone sounds intriguing.
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Posted: 02 June 2026 at 1:26am | IP Logged | 4 post reply
You may be surprised….
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For whatever reasons, it feels like Bradbury has been omitted (during my lifetime, at least) from the list of great sci-fi writers. He wasn't in the 50's-80's era 'Big Three' of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein, and was largely left behind when the 60's new wave arrived. And while he won the inaugural Hugo for Fahrenheit 451, he never won again, nor any Nebula. But his short speculative fiction remains wildly imaginative and his skill as a prose stylist is at the very top of the field, and - most importantly, to me - his stories always had something to say.
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One of Bradbury's masterpieces
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Just read it. Did NOT like the part with the dog.
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So very human! Shadows of vaporized humans we take in stride. But a dog suffers……
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