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From: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar)
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Subject: Re: Step on butterfly and mess up future (book title request)
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 11:47:10 EDT
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Summary: 

Try "The Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury.

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The plot goes like this:  Time traveling safari company is hired by a man who
wants to shot a T. Rex.  The co. finds one that is about to die by having a
tree fall on it, with the object of letting it be shot just before the tree
falls, then taking pistures of man standing on trophy, etc.  Precautions
against messing up the future involve amoung other things floating pathways.
Idiot hunter panics when the T. Rex shows up, steps off path and kills
butterfly. When the party returns to future and things are different
(e.g. words on signs spelled wrong, differant man just won Pres.
election, etc.) so the guide shoots the idiot.
The last line reads "There was the sound of thunder."

Mark Biggar
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