Upon returning to 2055, Eckels notices subtle changes: English words are now spelled strangely, people behave differently, and Deutscher has won the election.

Travis threatens to leave him in the past before ordering him to removes the bullets from the dinosaur's body, as they cannot be left behind. The other 4 shoot and kill the dinosaur and see that Eckels has found his way back in the time machine. Travis tells him to go back to the time machine, but Eckels panics, steps off the path, and stumbles into the forest. Travis explains that the hunters are obliged to stay on a levitating path to avoid disrupting the environment, any deviation will be punished with hefty fines and prosecution, Time Safari scouts had been sent back to select and tag prey whose death will have minimal effect on the future prior to the hunt, and the time machine 'steps aside' to avoid people from encountering themselves in the past.Īlthough Eckels is initially excited about the hunt, when the monstrous T-Rex approaches, he loses his nerve. When the party arrives in the past, Travis, the hunting guide, and his assistant warn Eckels and the two other hunters about the necessity of minimizing the events they change before they go back, since even the smallest alterations to the distant past could snowball into catastrophic changes in history.

As the party waits to depart, they discuss the recent presidential elections in which an apparently fascist candidate, Deutscher, has been defeated by his opponent Keith, to the relief of many concerned. A hunter named Eckels pays $10,000 to join a hunting party that will travel back 66 million years to the Late Cretaceous period, on a guided safari to kill a Tyrannosaurus rex. offers wealthy adventurers the chance to travel back in time to hunt extinct species such as dinosaurs. In the year 2055, time travel has become a practical reality, and the company Time Safari Inc. ' A Sound of Thunder' is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in Collier's magazine in the June 28, 1952, issue and later in Bradbury's collection The Golden Apples of the Sun in 1953. For other uses, see Sound of Thunder (disambiguation). This article is about the short story by Ray Bradbury.

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