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?

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

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

Is that the Ray Bradbury short story?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder

I remember it

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.

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

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.

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.

Wow that was it!!!!!

Mighty impressed,has been bugging me for years.

Thanks!

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.