Revisited an old favorite from grade school. It's amazing how relevant this story remains sixty four years after it was written. ( )

Dois pais amorosos oferecem a seus filhos uma sala de jogos de fantasia na qual seus sonhos se tornam realidade. Bradbury começou esse trabalho escrevendo uma palavra em torno da qual construiria a peça — e a palavra era "berçário". Então ele decidiu que deveria ser um berçário do futuro e tentou imaginar como seria. Em poucas horas, ele havia idealizado a sala de jogos perfeita para os filhos de pais amorosos do futuro. Em sua sala de jogos especial, tudo o que as crianças imaginavam torna-se real e, neste caso, transforma-se na savana em que leões famintos procuram comida. É um choque quando se descobre o que as crianças decidem alimentar àqueles leões! ( )

I thought it was a great read, the idea was fun and done very well.

Bradbury expresses his fear of technology being used to indulge in hedonistic tendencies, and that from this, we'll all end up horrible people. While I do agree that'd be pretty bad, as long as we long as we're aware and don't fall for it, I think we'll be fine.

So, yeah, way to go Bradbury for spreading the word. Great story, recommended reading. ( )

This was one of the short stories I grew up on and one of the reasons I still love SF, 40 years after reading it for the first time. This story came out in a collection of stories the book was called "The Illustrated Man", still have my SF bookclub edition. ( )

Bradbury takes readers into a disturbing version of technology-based Utopia in this short story, which depicts the life of the Hadley family. Their dependence on electronics and virtual reality has become so extreme that it is literally an addiction for the children, who are the epitome of spoiled brats. It's perfectly normal for children to react negatively when they are denied a toy by their parents, but most children don't have the smarts or the long-term memory to respond as violently as the Hadley children do. Many authors have wirtten on how children y have extremely violent thoughts, but are restrained from carrying out said due to their lack of long-term planning abilities, but in Bradley's world the children are more than capable. This twisted depiction is very much in line with Iain Bank's The Wasp Factory, but somehow not actually seeing the parents murdered is more disturbing... ( )