How do the stories balance real life and apocalypse?
How do the stories balance real life and apocalypse? One of the things I always admire about apocalyptic fiction is the balance the authors have to create. They need to make the apocalypse scary and jarring as well as make us feel as though this could be our world if we continue down a certain path. The technique of making readers feel as though this is an unlikely yet still possible reality pulls readers in because it opens their imagination of what could happen in their world. In Ray Bradbury’s There Will Come to Soft Rains we see this high tech house that can cook food as well as cleans and do all the chores people normally hate to do. With the capabilities of robots I’m sure there is a robot out there that can make eggs and after a programmed amount of time throw them away like in the story. Many people have robotic vacuums like the mice we see in the story. Therefore, these details make us feel as though we could be living in this society at first. However, we then here about the