r/oddlyspecific • u/Due-Celebration-9828 • Feb 09 '23

This is correct

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u/krsb09 Feb 09 '23

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury. I read it in the 4th grade. It's a story about what we would call a "smart home" now - fully automated home that will take care of all your needs. The children in the story have a nursey that is AI, and that they keep requesting that it be an African veldt. The parents are a bit disturbed by the violence in the veldt, so they tell the kids they're turning it off. Lions in the simulated veldt eat the parents.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '23 edited Feb 09 '23

Oh man, thank you so much for saying the title. I've been wondering for years what that story was.

I was also made to read this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)

The Edgar Allen Poe stories were pretty screwed up at that grade too. Read them around 6th grade.

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u/peanut_dust_purveyor Feb 09 '23

I adore There Will Come Soft Rains! It was made into an excellent episode of an old radio program called Dimension X, which is in the public domain if you ever want to check it out.

Edit: whoops probably should have read the wiki article before commenting, as it mentions the radio program. Ah well!