Eckels only went to the past for his amusement and pride, to hunt “The Tyrant Lizard.” He did not play by the rules and brought dreadful consequences upon himself and the future. Another massive visible change was the change in the English language. In “A Sound of Thunder”, one small step by Eckels caused a chain of catastrophic events that led to a fascist dictator becoming the president of the United States. Tap Here to Learn More About Ray Bradbury and His Sci-Fi Novels A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury - Book Review The dinosaur tale of this story inspires the time travel to prehistoric life. We see how one trip to the past to kill the great T-rex provokes an absolutely different present.
This story is a dystopian imagination where people are allowed to travel to the past for amusement, basically hunting. This short story is about a time where travelling to the past is possible. “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is a sci-fi story that deals with sci-fi themes such as dinosaur encounter, time travel, dystopia and environmental changes. The narrative of a sci-fi story is to make the readers believe in its fictional world.īradbury was a prolific writer and he wrote various works of science fiction, detective fiction, fantasy as well as thriller. Certain prominent themes are time travel, futurism, utopia, dystopia, alternate reality, teleportation, climate change, etc. There are various features of a sci-fi work. However, science fiction tries its best to ensure that it stems from something real, and is, somehow probable, sooner or later. Understanding the difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy becomes hard because of how both of these genres are somewhat a result of our imagination. Science Fiction is a literary genre that specifically deals with imaginative or futuristic concepts.
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