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| Short story by ], first published in 1952. This is a well-known story about time travel, revolving around a business called Time Safaris. Time Safaris promises to take you back in time so you can shoot prehistoric animals, such as ]. They are very careful to leave history undisturbed, though: they only shoot animals which are about to die anyway, and always stay on a path which hovers above the ground. No hunting trophies are taken, your only souvenir can be a photograph of yourself with the dead monster. In the story a man leaves the floating path and tramples a butterfly. Upon returning to the present, they find a somewhat different world than the one they left, all of history having been changed by the death of a single butterfly in the distant past. | Short story by ], first published in 1952. This is a well-known story about time travel, revolving around a business called Time Safaris. Time Safaris promises to take you back in time so you can shoot prehistoric animals, such as ]. They are very careful to leave history undisturbed, though: they only shoot animals which are about to die anyway, and always stay on a path which hovers above the ground. No hunting trophies are taken, your only souvenir can be a photograph of yourself with the dead monster. In the story a man leaves the floating path and tramples a butterfly. Upon returning to the present, they find a somewhat different world than the one they left, all of history having been changed by the death of a single butterfly in the distant past. | ||
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Short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in 1952. This is a well-known story about time travel, revolving around a business called Time Safaris. Time Safaris promises to take you back in time so you can shoot prehistoric animals, such as Tyrannosaurus Rex. They are very careful to leave history undisturbed, though: they only shoot animals which are about to die anyway, and always stay on a path which hovers above the ground. No hunting trophies are taken, your only souvenir can be a photograph of yourself with the dead monster. In the story a man leaves the floating path and tramples a butterfly. Upon returning to the present, they find a somewhat different world than the one they left, all of history having been changed by the death of a single butterfly in the distant past.