hello - I need to send a Ray Bradbury story to an eighteen-year old to follow up a discussion we had. I am desperate to find which book holds the story (and the name of the story) in which for some reason, electricity disappears, but mankind ends up coping surprisingly well - I think it might end with a happy summer's evening and people being able to hear a brass band in the distance or something. can't find it anywhere on the internet, whatever search terms I use....thank you so much in advance, Lucy
I think you are thinking of Fredric Brown's "The Waverlies" in which an invasion of wave-form aliens renders all electrical devices useless, and society rediscovers the joys of non-technological pursuits.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lucymarianne: Wow, Smckee - huge thanks.
Your welcome Lucy. I sure would recommend that you check out Ray's work, if you haven't already. If that conversation you had was about the de-humanizing or ant-social aspects of technology, you will find lots to talk about in Ray's work. Though not actually anti-tech, he did visit this theme many times. The short story "The Pedestrian" or the novel "Fahrenheit 451" comes to mind. Read them and you may never be able to look at a large flat-screen TV -- or see someone zoning out with an ipod -- without thinking of Ray Bradbury .
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