A Sound of Thunder

by Ray Bradbury

Release: 28 June 1952
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Eckels, a wealthy hunter, is one of three hunters on a prehistoric hunt for T. Rex conducted by Time Safari, Inc.

This was not the first speculation on small changes in the past causing big changes now (for example, Tenn’s “Me, Myself, and I”), but I wonder whether this was the first time that sensitive dependence on initial conditions was expressed in terms of a single butterfly.

Not a little thing like that! Not a butterfly!

DEBUT

“A Sound of Thunder,” in Collier’s, 28 June 1952.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

DERIVATIVE WORKS

“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, directed by Pat Robins, (USA Network, 11 August 1989).
“A Sound of Thunder” by Richard Corben, in Ray Bradbury Comics 1, February 1993.
A Sound of Thunder by Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, and Gregory Poirier, directed by Peter Hyams, (at movie theaters, Spain, 26 August 2005).

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