Ray Bradbury 21 min read

A curious crowd gathers in cold grey Jersey mists before a scheduled 'Birth', while high in his tower, the company president broods on what, exactly, science is about to bring forth.

Ray Bradbury's 1947 story is an early, lyrical hard-SF and social-SF vision of the dawn of the space age. Poetic, evocative, pure early Bradbury. Read it for the young master's shimmering prose and mood, as an anxious industrialist awaits the 'Birth' that will change the world.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

21 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).