THE LONG RAIN is my personal favorite short story from Ray Bradbury's classic body of tales, The Illustrated Man. Written in 1950, it paints a deadly and seductive image of an interminably rainy planet of Venus. Admittedly, science now shows us Venus is more of a lead oven than a drenched rainscape, but let's not take Venus literally in this sense. I've always felt that planets in sci-fi are more of a mental/spiritual arena in which to place relatable, earthly characters.

Bradbury's writing here is so poetic and so visual, I just knew a vocal narration wasn't enough. An audiobook like this deserves a rain soundtrack, complete with soggy footsteps and storms and rivers and shimmering things. May you enjoy the sound design as well as the characters! 

Your quest for the Sun Dome begins...NOW.

THE LONG RAIN, by Ray Bradbury, sound-designed & narrated by Alexander Rogers (Audiobook)

Philip K. Dick brings us a tale as outrageous and imaginative as its title suggests. Mr. Computer - the world's central A.I. - has gone crazy, pitching society into a malfunctioning mess. Only the globe's greatest healer of psychotic constructs, Joan Simpson, can save the day!

Featuring aural stimulations of slapstick humor, mind-bending futurity, police-state paranoia, and a second chance at romance!

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