1. There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury

2. Bradbury was born August 22, 1920. He is a famous horror, sci-fi, mystery and fantasy writer. Best known works are Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, and Dandelion Wine.

3. There Will Come Soft Rains The short story is an except from a collection entitled The Martian Chronicles. The collection was published in 1950. Many of the short stories were based around a futuristic society. Like many authors Bradbury was inspired by the events that took place around him.

4. Hiroshima On Monday, August 6, 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It killed 80,000 people instantly. Over the next year over 100,000 people died from radiation poisoning.

5. Silhouette