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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
Every time you mention this I think of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Recovery Man. A thirteen-year-old girl is trapped in her house by the Home entity because it was programmed by a man who kidnapped the girl's mother.
It might be common in science fiction stories, I don't know. It's the only time I've come across it and I remember thinking what a terrifying idea that could be!
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Ray Bradbury explored smart homes in a couple of his short stories, neither of which have happy endings. In
The Veldt, the children and the house collude and kill the parents. In
There Will Come Soft Rains, an automated house goes about its daily chores, cooking and cleaning, not aware that the family is gone. It turns out that they were obliterated in a nuclear war and the house continues to operate without them, until its killed in a fire.
I wonder what Alexa thinks about
The Veldt?
