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Plot summary. In the year 2055, time travel has become a practical reality, and the company Time Safari Inc. offers wealthy adventurers the chance to travel back in time to hunt extinct species such as dinosaurs.
Sep 11, 2021 · A classic time-travel story about how killing a butterfly in the past can change the future. Learn about the plot, the characters, and the themes of this 1950s science fiction tale by Ray Bradbury.
Sep 2, 2005 · A movie adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short story about time travel and evolution, starring Ben Kingsley and Edward Burns. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, read user and critic reviews, and find out the plot summary and trivia.
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- Action, Adventure, Horror
- Peter Hyams
- 2005-09-02
A short story by Ray Bradbury about a time travel safari to hunt dinosaurs in 2055. The story explores the themes of mortality, authoritarianism, and the butterfly effect through the fate of Mr. Eckels, who steps on a butterfly and changes history.
A touch of the hand and this burning would, on the instant, beautifully reverse itself. Eckels remembered the wording in the advertisements to the letter. Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap; roses sweeten the air, white hair turn Irish black, wrinkles vanish; all, everything fly back to seed, flee death, rush down ...
A short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel and its consequences. Eckels accidentally kills a butterfly in the past and changes the future, leading to a dictatorship.
Learn about Ray Bradbury's classic sci-fi short story, A Sound of Thunder, with summaries, analysis, themes, quotes, characters, and symbols. Explore the historical and literary context, the butterfly effect, and the failed adaptation of this tale.
