https://medium.com/@twentythirtyfree/there-will-come-smart-rains-faeb60602c54 > In the year 1950, prolific speculative-fiction author Ray Bradbury wrote a short-story entitled There Will Come Soft Rains. Although he is widely known by high-school-students and science-fiction-fans everywhere for Fahrenheit 451, the short-story which proceeded it always seems to be overlooked in mainstream discussion. Even if you spoke to somebody born in a country which used Celsius instead of Fahrenheit, they’d have a good chance of saying “oh yeah, the book-burning thing…I’ve heard of that. It’s something about the government trying to control knowledge in the future, right?” > If you mention the other story, you may just get a confused look. “Soft rains? How are rains soft?”