wales@ucla-cs.UUCP (07/20/85)
In article <588@usl.UUCP> jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux) writes: >I remember once reading a short story about a time traveler who goes >back to check out the dinosaurs. All he does is step out of his >machine, look around then get back in, but doing so he accidentally >kills a butterfly. When he gets back to the "present" things are >radically different. (Of course the farther back one goes, the more >drastic the effects of the visit.) Does anyone remember this story, >and the author/title? "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury; in his collection R IS FOR ROCKET. -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department // +1 213-825-5683 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, California 90024 // USA ARPA: wales@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA -or- wales@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU UUCP: ...!(ihnp4,ucbvax)!ucla-cs!wales
klawrence@watarts.UUCP (Kevin Lawrence) (07/25/85)
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Allright people, here's a toughie: About 14-16 years ago, when I was
about 6 or 7 years old, I read a group of short stories about travelling
around and about the solar system. I remember two of the stories; one was
about a race around the sun (I think that was the title), and the other was
about a trip to one of the outer planets, in which there was this stretch of
dialogue about slinging the spaceship the explorers were in around Uranus by
using its gravity. I think the stories must have been written before the
computer craze, because I remember the captain of the spaceship handing out
gravity calculations to members of the crew. The group of stories had the
same hero and that's about all I can remember. I know it's very little, but
I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thanks in advance.
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