In their astonishment and joy, they all forget about Margot and gleefully rush to play outside, savoring every second of their newfound freedom. The teacher arrives to take the class outside to enjoy their hour of sunshine. Just before the sun comes out, a boy named William rallies the other children, and they lock Margot in a closet down a tunnel. The other children, being too young to have ever seen it themselves, do not believe her. She describes the sun to the other children as being like a "penny" or "fire in the stove". One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier and is the only one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on Earth. The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for one hour every seven years.
" All Summer in a Day" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in the March 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Thank you for making it available for free! Comment by TeriĪwesome, love the rain effects and voices.Short story by Ray Bradbury All Summer in a Day I felt immediately transported! Comment by Fernando RamírezĮpic experience. Ima kill myself if this ends like shit again Comment by Inkarose The audio perfectly reflected Bradbury's poetic vision and made the story come alive for the students. I teach Language Arts and played this for my 7th grade class. May you enjoy the sound design as well as the characters! An audiobook like this deserves a rain soundtrack, complete with soggy footsteps and storms and rivers and shimmering things. I've always felt that planets in sci-fi are more of a mental/spiritual arena in which to place relatable, earthly characters.īradbury's writing here is so poetic and so visual, I just knew a vocal narration wasn't enough. Admittedly, science now shows us Venus is more of a lead oven than a drenched rainscape, but let's not take Venus literally in this sense. Written in 1950, it paints a deadly and seductive image of an interminably rainy planet of Venus. THE LONG RAIN is my personal favorite short story from Ray Bradbury's classic body of tales, The Illustrated Man.
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