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GardenGnome

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40. No, that's not the same one

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 03:00 PM

Jul 25

Another great short story though. I think it was required reading in one of my junior high reading classes, but I loved Ray Bradbury and read a lot of his books, so possibly not. The story was A Sound of Thunder from1952. And, in yet another example of synchronicity, I recently watched a movie on Tubi that used that title and some of the story's elements. Also called A Sound of Thunder.

From Wikipedia:

The idea that the death of one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historical events made its earliest known appearance in "A Sound of Thunder", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury in which a time traveller alters the future by inadvertently treading on a butterfly in the past.

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