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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Who is Ray Bradbury?

I didn't think he was still alive because he was born in 1938, but he is...

Click HERE to learn more about the great Sci Fi Author


The story we read/watched/listened to, "A Sound of Thunder" was first published in 1952 (when Mr. Bradbury was only 14??? Wow!

“A Sound of Thunder” is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in Collier’s magazine in 1952. As of 1984 it was the most re-published science fiction story up to the present time.[1] It is based on the concept that was later termed the butterfly effect, as well as, perhaps, the snowball effect.



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