We need only look to The Twilight Zone episode Intimidating one at that (it was not, strangely enough, the first episode of Ray Bradbury Theater to involve a T-Rex, although the titular animal in 'Tyrannosaurus Rex' was a stop-motion creation in context, and could get away with looking a little fake). It requires a dinosaur, and a sufficiently

First published in Collier's magazine inġ952, 'A Sound of Thunder' was later included in Bradbury's 1953 anthology The GoldenĪpples of The Sun, and on August 11th 1989 received its long overdue televisual treatment as part of the anthology series The Ray Bradbury Theater, directed by Costa Bones and taken from a script adapted by Bradbury himself.ĭespite being one of Bradbury's most well-known andĬelebrated tales, it took until the third season of Ray Bradbury Theater for 'A Sound of Thunder' to be realised on screen, possibly because it is aĬhallenging story to stage. I speak of course of 'A Sound of Thunder', Bradbury's cautionary fable about the perils of undervaluing the smaller specimens of the animal kingdom and (for my money, anyway) the greatest story ever written on the subject of time travel. This includes the story featuring arguably the most notorious bug in Bradbury's canon, this one not a raving, humanoid lunatic who likes terrorising innocent leisure seekers with prophecies of genetic evil, but an unassuming, ostensibly passive creature whose true significance does not become apparent until the very end, having spent most of the story being upstaged by a larger, more commanding beast.

At the very least, the Bradbury works that have struck the deepest, most personal chords with myself tend to involve creepy-crawlies to some capacity. Ray Bradbury and members of the anthropod kingdom make an exceedingly good combination.

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