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A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

Ray Bradbury

With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story,

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It was mentioned in the context of how Ray Bradbury described time as a linear thing that could be altered, contrasting it with the idea of time travel in other works.

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In A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, he speaks of time as a linear thing which can be altered.

— Episode: Cosmic Queries: Time Travel

Episode: Cosmic Queries: Time Travel

It was mentioned in the context of how Ray Bradbury described time as a linear thing that could be altered, contrasting it with the idea of time travel in other works.

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In A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, he speaks of time as a linear thing which can be altered.

Episode: Cosmic Queries: Time Travel

It was mentioned in the context of Sean Karp's question about the nature of time, specifically how Bradbury portrays time as a linear concept that can be altered.

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In A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, he speaks of time as a linear thing which can be altered.

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

The book featured a time travel story where a company allowed hunters to shoot a T-Rex, but one hunter stepped off the designated path and accidentally stepped on a dead butterfly, which drastically changed the future into a fascist society with altered language.

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And I'm reminded of, you know, one of those books I read when I was young. I read Ray Bradbury. And he has these great short stories. And one was called A Sound of Thunder.

— Episode: Karol Markowicz Show: John J. Miller's J...

Episode: Karol Markowicz Show: John J. Miller's Journey to...

The book featured a time travel story where a company allowed hunters to shoot a T-Rex, but one hunter stepped off the designated path and accidentally stepped on a dead butterfly, which drastically changed the future into a fascist society with altered language.

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And I'm reminded of, you know, one of those books I read when I was young. I read Ray Bradbury. And he has these great short stories. And one was called A Sound of Thunder.

And it's a time travel story where the idea is that this company has figured out how to do time travel. And if you're a hunter, you can go back in time and hunt a T-Rex.

And they come back into the, you know, the present time where they're going to brag about having shot the T-Rex. And everything's different. They live in a fascist society. The people, English is different. It's spelled differently. People speak differently. Everything has changed.

And as they're undressing, one guy, the guy who stepped off the path, looks at the bottom of his shoe, his boot or whatever, and there's a dead butterfly. And, you know, so the idea is, the idea is he stepped on that butterfly and that's what changed the future.

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