A Sound of Thunder
- Eloi Honorable Mention
- by Ray Bradbury
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, in Collier’s, 28 June 1952.
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.
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!
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- “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, in Collier’s, 28 June 1952.
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- “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, directed by Pat Robins (11 August 1989).
- “A Sound of Thunder” by Richard Corben (February 1993).
- A Sound of Thunder by Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, and Gregory Poirier, directed by Peter Hyams (26 August 2005).