Thanks to anyone who was looking for an answer. While no direct explanation of the nonexistence of the family is produced, the silhouettes of a man, a woman, two children, and their play ball are described as having been burnt into one side of the house, implying that they were all incinerated by the thermal flash of a nuclear weapon. The family who inhabited the house have died in a nuclear war, and the house is the only structure left in Allendale, California. There Will Come Soft Rains is the second-to-last chapter of the novel, and it depicts the destruction of an automated house by an accidental fire. The story begins when Lydia asks George if he's noticed anything wrong with the. The Martian Chronicles depicts the colonization of Mars by humans.

Originally appearing as 'The World the Children Made' in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man. In 'The Veldt,' George and Lydia Hadley are the parents of Wendy and Peter Hadley, and they live in a technologically driven house that will do everything for its inhabitants - transport you upstairs, brush your teeth, cook the food, and clean the house.

At first, it is not apparent that anything is out of the ordinary, but eventually it becomes clear that the residents of the house are not present, and that the house is empty. 'The Veldt' is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. The reader enters the text on the morning of Ap(changed to Augin later printings), and follows the house through some of the daily tasks that it performs as it prepares its inhabitants for a day of work. The story begins by introducing the reader to a computer-controlled house that cooks, cleans, and takes care of virtually every need that a well-to-do United States family could be assumed to have. It looks like the 1950 Ray Bradbury short story, 'There Will Come Soft Rains,' which has its own Wikipedia page that includes this description: I think I've found the answer to my own question.

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