Anybody at school in the 80s rem a sci fi book about going forward in time and somebody coming back with an insect stuck on their shoe?

[Prarieflower]

We did it in school but have no idea what it was.

[Prarieflower]

Apparently you weren't supposed to come back with anything,can't rem how it ended.

[Fabulousfreaks]

Is that the Ray Bradbury short story?

[MsHighwater]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder

I remember it

[TodaysAGoodDay]

Oh my god, I remember that! I have wondered in the past what it was, so thanks. I like Ray Bradbury books, another favourite is Fahrenheit 451. Fab books IMO.

[Fabulousfreaks]

Ray Bradbury is amazing. I cried and cried at The Foghorn and I loved The Veldt

[imperialstateknickers]

I think it's a Ray Bradbury short story, something about some wanker on a commercial time travel tour squashes a butterfly 65 million years ago and the whole modern world sort of disintegrates. Definitely in my 1980's school library.

[imperialstateknickers]

Was it Bradbury who wrote a similar one about some simple mobile-vegetable lifeform on Venus that eats the Earth-germ infested plastic wrapper off the astronaut's instant camera film, and dies just as the over-excited astronaut crew radio the news of life on Venus back to Earth.

There was something so touchingly simple about 1950's sci-fi.

[Prarieflower]

Wow that was it!!!!!

Mighty impressed,has been bugging me for years.

Thanks!

[GoldenPeppermintCreams]

It was used as part of a GCSE English exam in the nighties. It was our mock exam paper, so I remember going over the story in detail in class afterwards.

I was/am a big sci fi fan as a teenager so I remember it vividly. Going to read it again now.