here is the original short story
http://www.plazaboricua.com/anil/archivo/fabulas2/cuentos/august2026.html

wow...

Well there go MY plans for New Years...!

Creepy!

*nominate

This video has been nominated as a top video of 2006 (nominate called by gold star member firefly)

*promote, this is the first video I ever looked at here.

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*dark
*books
*scifi

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Kind of a ham-handed and brutalist presentation (it is Soviet after all), but good nonetheless.

I DV'd your comment, sometimes, since that's actually not the whole story -- see here:

http://www.faludi.com/classes/networkobjects/readings/Bradbury_Soft_Rains_1950.pdf

*future *fear

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'Matter of fact, there's a reference to all this in Fallout 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAvyPO-0p84#t=0m40s