The thrilling title story, a sound of thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari sixty million years in the past. Comments are turned off autoplay when autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play. Best known for his dystopian novel fahrenheit 451and short stories like the veldt, bradbury was a prolific author of fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction. Ray bradburys short story a sound of thunder, first published in colliers magazine in the june 28, 1952. The butterfly effect is a term coined by edward lorenz, an american mathematician, meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory and who does not look like jeff goldblum that essentially says that a hurricane can be influenced by the. A sound of thunder is a science fiction short story by american writer ray bradbury, first published in colliers magazine in the june 28, 1952, issue and later in bradbury s collection the golden apples of the sun in 1953. It is included in the collection a sound of thunder and other stories 2005. This was the eighth episode in a series of radio drama adaptations of thirteen ray bradbury stories. In addition to these collections, many of bradbury s short stories have been published in multiauthor anthologies. This story was originally published in 1947 by the new yorker magazine, inc.
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