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Title:The Veldt
Author:Ray Bradbury
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 45 pages
Published:November 20th 1987 by Creative Education (first published September 23rd 1950)
Categories:Short Stories. Science Fiction. Classics. Fiction. Horror. Dystopia. Academic. School

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I am constantly amazed at the predictive capacity of Golden Age science fiction writers. In the early 1950’s, Ray Bradbury wrote this story on the dangers of immersive entertainment and technology advancements could have on children. He aptly describes a smart home and a lifelike (too lifelike) virtual reality room (sort of a Star Trek holodeck). This story must be more impactful in today’s world of ubiquitous screens, immersive video games, and augmented reality. In the early 1950’s the transistor was only recently invented, televisions were not common, and radios were not yet portable.

I first ran into this story decades ago when I read, “The Illustrated Man”. I just reread it, as part of a Science Fiction Facebook group I belong to. I love the little tie into Peter Pan and Neverland by naming the kids Peter and Wendy. It struck me as a ‘evil twin’ of Moore and Kuttner’s “Mimsy Were the Borogoves” which was written earlier.

Bradbury's prose is pedestrian in this piece, compared to some of his more flowery and near poetic work, but it’s more effectively written as a straight cautionary tale.

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Original Title: The Veldt
ISBN: 0886821088 (ISBN13: 9780886821081)
Edition Language: English
Characters: George Hadley, Lydia Hadley

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Jumanji gone terribly wrong. Ray Bradbury was such a damn genius.

Since aeon this society has questioned the efficacy of love. I know we have made millions of movies, written trillions of stories and have had hundreds of thinkers all depicting the helplessness of human emotions. We have the tendency to swoon, drool and even succumb for the ones we love. But this is not the love that we are talking about in this story. Here, it's the one which because of the absence of physical attraction may not be as complex as the love between a couple. But still, it's much



Creepy and eye-opening. Makes you shudder.

When you read a short story like this one, there's no mistaking the reasons Bradbury is regarded as a master storyteller. His stories are at their most powerful when he's writing of children, as here, and such as Dandelion Wine, or All Summer In a Day. He creates a sense of inevitability, even resignation. You can see the ending coming, you even know why it's coming, and which turn you took to get you there. Still it drags you along to the end, and the story lingers, long after you've read the

4.0 stars. A superb short story from Ray Bradbury and one that is quite a bit "darker" than much of his short fiction. It originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1950 under the title, "The World the Children Made" and was than included in the anthology The story is dark, cynical look at the dangers of allowing technology (like TV) raise our children. In the story, two parents install a machine called the Happylife Home(think early computer with A.I.) that allows the house to be run

Jumanji gone terribly wrong. Ray Bradbury was such a damn genius.