![]() ![]() The two children, Peter and Wendy, become fascinated with the “nursery,” a virtual reality room that is able to connect with the children telepathically to reproduce any place they imagine. The house is filled with machines that do everything for them from cooking meals, to clothing them, to rocking them to sleep. It is called the “Happylife Home” and its installation cost $30,000. When the parents threaten to take the nursery away, the children lock their parents inside where it is implied that the parents are mauled and killed by the harmless machine-generated lions of the nursery.ĭetail: A family lives in a house with the latest technology. The children use the nursery’s simulation equipment to recreate the predatorial environment of the African veldt. Summary: Far into the future, two parents use a high tech nursery to keep their children happy. The anthology is a collection of short stories that were mostly published individually in magazines beforehand. Background: “The Veldt” is a short story written by Ray Bradbury that was published originally as “The World the Children Made” in the Septemissue of The Saturday Evening Post, later republished in the anthology The Illustrated Man in 1951. ![]()
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