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"The Veldt" is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. Originally appearing as " The World the Children Made " in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post , it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man .
The short story was adapted for the radio programs Dimension X on August 30, 1951, and X Minus One on December 21, 1955, and for television as a fourth-season episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (titled "Design for Loving") and a first-season episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater (under the original title).
"The Veldt" "Let’s Play 'Poison'" "All Summer in a Day" "Fever Dream" "Zero Hour" "The Fog Horn" "A Sound of Thunder" "The Wind" "The Scythe" "Marionettes, Inc." "The Other Foot" "The Pedestrian" "The Trolley" "The Smile" "The Gift" "The Last Night of the World" For Discussion, essay by Anthony Adams; Ray Bradbury—His Work, essay by Anthony ...
The Stories of Ray Bradbury is an anthology containing 100 short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published by Knopf in 1980. The hundred stories, written from 1943 to 1980, were selected by the author himself.
The children are not pleased with this decision, but later coolly agree to it. The children trap their parents in the nursery, where they become prey to the lions. They later have lunch on the veldt with the child psychologist, who sees the lions feasting. Unlike the original story, the psychologist realises what has happened and is horrified.
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Veldt may also refer to: "The Veldt" (short story), a science fiction story by Ray Bradbury. The Veldt, a 1987 Soviet film based on the story by Ray Bradbury "The Veldt" (song), a song by deadmau5, also based on the Bradbury story; Part of the setting of Final Fantasy VI, a 1994 video game; The Veldt (band), an American alternative group
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 two hours every seven years. 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. She describes the sun to ...