A Sound of Thunder and Other StoriesA Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
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Book, 2005
Current format, Book, 2005, 1st Harper Perennial ed, Available .Book, 2005
Current format, Book, 2005, 1st Harper Perennial ed, Available . Offered in 0 more formatsCollects thirty-two short tales by the popular author of The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man that explore the otherworldly depths of the human soul, including "The Golden Apples of the Sun" and "A Sound of Thunder," about a race against time to save humankind. Originally published as The Golden Apples of the Sun. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. (A Warner Bros film, releasing March 2005, starring Ben Kingsley & Ed Norton) (Story Collection)
<p>With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, <em>A Sound of Thunder</em>, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...</p>
<p>With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, <em>A Sound of Thunder</em>, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...</p>
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