Which well-known short story about time travel by Ray Bradbury is a fictional exploration of the 'butterfly effect' of Chaos theory?
"The Exiles (Bradbury story) ""The Exiles"" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. It was originally published as ""The Mad Wizards of Mars"" in ""Maclean's"" on September 15, 1949 and was reprinted, in revised form, the following year by ""The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction"". First collected in ""The Illustrated Man"" (1951), it was later included in the collections ""R Is for Rocket"" (1962), """" (2003), ""A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories"" (2005) and ""A Pleasure to Burn"" (2010, under the ""Mad Wizards"" title and presumably with the ""Maclean's"" text). The crew of a rocket ship"
"miscredited as the origin of the term ""butterfly effect"". Ray Bradbury's 1952 concept of how the death of a butterfly in the past could have drastic changes in the future is a representation of the butterfly effect, and used as an example of how to consider chaos theory and the physics of time travel. The story was made into a film of the same name, an episode of the television series ""Ray Bradbury's Theater"", and its influence can be seen in the film ""The Terminator"", the short story ""Kamikaze Butterflies"", and an episode of the television series ""The Simpsons"". The"
"Mackye Gruber's (2004) film ""The Butterfly Effect"", a young man (Ashton Kutcher) blocks out harmful memories of significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life, effectively travelling through a menagerie of timelines and possible parallel universes. Random Quest ""Random Quest"" is a science fiction short story, which is also a love story, by John Wyndham. It was included in his 1961 collection ""Consider Her Ways and Others"". It has been dramatised three times, twice under its original name and once as ""Quest"
"concepts of chaos theory at a time when the butterfly effect was not yet fashionable. Although Ray Bradbury's ""A Sound of Thunder"" was earlier and has been more anthologised, this story is conceptually far more parsimonious, more sophisticated and more useful in illustrating chaotic effects in complex systems. The story concerns Marshall Zebatinsky, a Polish-American nuclear physicist. He is concerned that his career has stalled, and in desperation consults a numerologist for advice on restarting it. The numerologist advises him to change the first letter of his name to ""S"": Sebatinsky. A complicated series of events ensue in which Sebatinsky"
"explain chaos theory to Laura Dern's character, Dr. Ellie Sattler, specifically using the butterfly effect as an example. Terry Pratchett's novel ""Interesting Times"" tells of the magical ""Quantum Weather Butterfly"", who has the ability to manipulate weather patterns. The 2009 film ""Mr. Nobody"" also delves into the concept of smaller choices, that inevitably result in larger changes that alter a person's life. In Nick Hancock and Chris England's 1997 book ""What Didn't Happen Next: An Alternative History of Football"" it is suggested that, had Gordon Banks been fit to play in the 1970 FIFA World Cup quarter-final, there would have"
"be made of water vapor in the writing of this story. All Summer in a Day ""All Summer in a Day"" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in the March 1954 issue of ""The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction"". The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the Sun is visible for only one hour every seven years. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier, and she is the only one in her class to"
"Transfusion (short story) Transfusion is a science fiction short story by Chad Oliver, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in June, 1959. Like many of his stories, it puts the author's own profession of anthropology into a science fiction context. In this case, the addition of time travel theoretically enables the scientists to observe primitive humans in the past. The results, however, are unexpected. Anthropologists Ben Hazard and Ed Stone join a top-secret project which uses a time-travel device, affectionately known as ""the Bucket"" to return in time to observe human development throughout history. They are shocked to discover that,"
"gambit or classic psychoanalytic struggle, invoking as Bradbury's fiction often does, Lacanian three orders of Imaginary, Symbolic and Real. It pits the protagonist and his being locked into the natural order of things will he join his mother's domain, ascend to her adjoining throne and accept her rules and assumptions against his journey to find an external world. Attachment theory is insinuated into the story. Jack-in-the-Box (short story) Jack-in-the-Box is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury, first published as part of the 1947 short story collection ""Dark Carnival"". It was later collected in the magazine Avon Fantasy Reader"
"Hollerbochen's Dilemma ""Hollerbochen's Dilemma"" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury's first published work, it appeared in Forrest Ackerman's fanzine ""Imagination!"" in January 1938. Hollerbochen is precognitive, and has the ability to stop time to get out of danger, but when he is faced with too many threats at once, he explodes. ""Hollerbochen's Dilemma"" was poorly received, with Bradbury subsequently writing ""no one enjoyed my story"" and ""I think it was terrible myself"". Bradbury later wrote a sequel, ""Hollerbochen Comes Back"", in which a resurrected Hollerbochen rescues an imprisoned Bradbury and takes him to wreak wordplay-based vengeance"
"All Summer in a Day ""All Summer in a Day"" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in the March 1954 issue of ""The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction"". The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the Sun is visible for only one hour every seven years. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier, and she is the only one in her class to remember sunshine, since the Sun shone regularly on Earth. She describes"
"in her for a while. However, Ann has no interest in Tom. Tom is aware of Ann's inconsistent behaviour during the dance. The story ends with Cecy becoming attracted to Tom and trying to arrange a meeting with Tom and her human form through Ann. Boucher and McComas described the story as one of Bradbury's ""reassuringly lovely flights of fancy"". The story was included in several of Bradbury's short story collections: This story was later assimilated into Bradbury's 2003 fix-up novel ""From the Dust Returned"". The April Witch ""The April Witch"" is a 1952 fantasy short story by Ray Bradbury."
"The Cat's Pajamas: Stories The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (2004) is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. Its name of its title story comes from a phrase in English meaning a sought after and fancy thing. Another collection by the same name was published in the same year by fellow science fiction author James Morrow. A black boy is visiting one of his relatives in a beachside town for the summer. He befriends a white boy. They spend lots of time together in the sun, and the white boy grows darker. At the end of the summer the white"
"The Toynbee Convector ""The Toynbee Convector"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. First published in ""Playboy"" magazine in 1984, the story was subsequently featured in a 1988 short story collection also titled ""The Toynbee Convector"". Roger Shumway, a reporter, is invited to visit Craig Bennett Stiles, a 130-year-old man also known as the Time Traveler. This is the first interview Stiles has granted since shortly after his return from the future, 100 years previously. Stiles had claimed then that he invented a time machine (which he privately refers to as his ""Toynbee Convector"", although he"
"The Butterfly Effect The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 American supernatural psychological thriller film written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart. The title refers to the butterfly effect, a popular hypothetical situation which illustrates how small initial differences may lead to large unforeseen consequences over time, but this effect is not really used in the film; moreover, the scenario contradicts to this theory: only the consequences over time change which are directly connected to the causes. Kutcher plays 20-year-old college student Evan Treborn, with Amy Smart as his childhood sweetheart Kayleigh"
"Butterfly effect In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. The term, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a tornado (the exact time of formation, the exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as the flapping of the wings of a distant butterfly several weeks earlier. Lorenz discovered the effect when he observed that runs of his weather model with initial condition data"
"Cao Dan Cao Dan () (born in 1960 in Wuhan, Hubei province) is a contemporary Chinese painter. Cao Dan graduated from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China in 1982, and is currently teaching as a professor there. Currently, Cao Dan is working on a series called Butterfly Effect. This title refers to the short story ""A Sound of Thunder"" (1952) by Ray Bradbury, in which a small change, such as butterfly flapping its wings, causes a series of major changes. Cao Dan projects this idea on contemporary changes in world economics and the sudden resistance to the label ""made"
"on Earth. Janice and Leonora also lament on the second-hand role played by women in exploration and similar situations (i.e. conquest of Western America). Boucher and McComas described the story as one Bradbury's best works, a ""heartwarming picture of the girls we can never leave behind us, whatever far boundaries we reach."" The Wilderness (short story) ""The Wilderness"" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury first published in the November 1952 issue of ""The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"", and included in Bradbury's 1953 collection ""The Golden Apples of the Sun"". The year is 2003, and Janice"
"The Martian Chronicles The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story fixup by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. The book lies somewhere in between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing stories Bradbury originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines. The stories were loosely woven together with a series of short, interstitial vignettes for publication. ""The Martian Chronicles"" is a fixup of short stories with new text connecting them"
"the Ray Bradbury short story ""A Sound of Thunder"". Peabody and Sherman from the animated series ""The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show"", make an appearance during Homer's time traveling sequence and when, as a side effect of Homer's antics in the past, Kang and Kodos' heads are unexpectedly replaced with those of Peabody and Sherman. The dinosaur scenes are reminiscent of ""Jurassic Park"", and the floor morphing into a television screen is a reference to similar scenes in both """" and ""Time Bandits"". The title of the third segment, ""Nightmare Cafeteria"", is a reference to the television series ""Nightmare Cafe"" while"
"Frost and Fire (short story) ""Frost and Fire"" is a short story by Ray Bradbury and the fourteenth in his collection ""R is for Rocket"". It was first published in Planet Stories (Fall, 1946) as ""the Creatures That Time Forgot."" Placed there by a past rocket ship that crashed, the people of the storied land are within sight of another rocket ship on a distant mountain plateau. The plot follows Sim, the protagonist of this story, and his apparently short life on a planet where people are cursed by radiation to live only eight days. The people of this planet"
"on those who criticized the first story. Bradbury biographer Jonathan Eller has suggested that, together, the two Hollerbochen stories provide a ""first glimpse of Bradbury's lifelong defense mechanism against developing an overweening ego."" In 2014, it was nominated for the 1939 Retro-Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Hollerbochen's Dilemma ""Hollerbochen's Dilemma"" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury's first published work, it appeared in Forrest Ackerman's fanzine ""Imagination!"" in January 1938. Hollerbochen is precognitive, and has the ability to stop time to get out of danger, but when he is faced with too many threats at once,"
"Banshee (short story) ""Banshee"" is an autobiographical short story written by Ray Bradbury in the September 1984 issue of Gallery, and later adapted by Bradbury as an episode of ""Ray Bradbury Theater"". The story is based on Bradbury's experiences with John Huston during pre-production of their film ""Moby Dick"", directed by Huston and adapted into a screenplay by Bradbury from Herman Melville's novel. Bradbury and Huston had a very unpleasant working relationship whenever Bradbury would visit Huston's house in Ireland, where Huston would routinely manipulate and torment Bradbury with insults, pranks, and attempts to frighten the young author with impromptu"
"passages after Charles's recovery strongly suggest that Bradbury did, indeed, intend the literal interpretation. Fever Dream (short story) ""Fever Dream"" is a short story written by Ray Bradbury in 1948 for Weird Tales. It deals with the issues and anxieties suffered by teenagers that result from bodily change, in a somewhat Gothic light. The story concerns Charles, a fifteen-year-old boy who is suffering from a severe illness. The local doctor diagnoses it as scarlet fever, but Charles protests that his hand has ""changed"" and is no longer under his control. He claims that he has been infected by microbes that"
"The Fog Horn ""The Fog Horn"" is a 1951 science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, the first in his collection ""The Golden Apples of the Sun"". The story was the basis for the 1953 film ""The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms"". The plot follows Johnny, the protagonist and narrator, and his boss, McDunn, who are putting in a night's work at a remote lighthouse. The lighthouse's resonating fog horn attracts a sea monster. This is in fact the third time the monster has visited the lighthouse: he has been attracted by the same fog horn on the same"
"in the attempt. The ""dragon"" is then revealed to be a steam train, and its single eye is the train's head light. The operators discuss the event, but go away without attempting to find the knights. The Dragon (short story) ""The Dragon"" is a short story by author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1955 in the magazine ""Esquire"". A limited edition (352 copies, signed and numbered or lettered) of the story was published by Footsteps Press in 1988. It appears in ""A Medicine for Melancholy"" (1959), ""R is for Rocket"" (1962), ""Classic Stories 1"" (1990), and ""Bradbury"
"The Illustrated Man The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952. The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of ""the Illustrated Man"", a vagrant former member of a carnival freak show with an extensively tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets. The man's tattoos, allegedly created by a time-traveling woman, are individually animated and each tell"
"short stories. In Green Town, Bradbury's favorite uncle sprouts wings, traveling carnivals conceal supernatural powers, and his grandparents provide room and board to Charles Dickens. Perhaps the most definitive usage of the pseudonym for his hometown, in ""Summer Morning, Summer Night"", a collection of short stories and vignettes exclusively about Green Town, Bradbury returns to the signature locale as a look back at the rapidly disappearing small-town world of the American heartland, which was the foundation of his roots. Bradbury wrote many short essays on the culture and the arts, attracting the attention of critics in this field, but he"
"ideas Bradbury had visited in previously written stories. For many years, he tended to single out ""The Pedestrian"" in interviews and lectures as sort of a proto-""Fahrenheit 451"". In the Preface of his 2006 anthology ""Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451"" he states that this is an oversimplification. The full genealogy of ""Fahrenheit 451"" given in ""Match to Flame"" is involved. The following covers the most salient aspects. Between 1947 and 1948, Bradbury wrote the short story ""Bright Phoenix"" (not published until the May 1963 issue of ""The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction"") about a librarian"
"Sun and Shadow (short story) ""Sun and Shadow"" is a short story by Ray Bradbury first published in 1953 in the American news magazine ""The Reporter"". Later that same year, Bradbury anthologized it in ""The Golden Apples of the Sun"". In 1957, Quenian Press published a limited edition of 90 copies of the story for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. ""Sun and Shadow"" was one of Bradbury's short stories adapted into an episode of the television series ""The Ray Bradbury Theater"". In the episode, which aired on October 3, 1992, the title is misspelled ""Shaddow"" both on-screen"
"The Rocket (short story) ""The Rocket"" is a Science fiction short story (initially published under the name ""Outcast of the Stars"") by American writer Ray Bradbury. It is also included in ""The Illustrated Man"", a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. The story begins with Fiorello Bodoni, a poor junkyard owner, who spends his nights admiring nearby rocket launches bound for the Moon, Venus, and Mars. After six years, he has finally saved enough money to send one of his family members to Mars. However, when he presents the opportunity to his wife and children, they quickly realize that"
"Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis is a 2008 film based on a short story by Ray Bradbury and produced by Roger Lay Jr. The film tells the tale of mankind's struggle for survival in a distant future after the effects of war and carelessness have completely ravaged the environment. The story takes place inside an underground research facility where a group of scientists look for ways to sustain life. When one of the scientist falls ill and a chrysalis forms around him, a tug of war ensues about the future of the stricken scientist... and ultimately the fate of"
"The Wilderness (short story) ""The Wilderness"" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury first published in the November 1952 issue of ""The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"", and included in Bradbury's 1953 collection ""The Golden Apples of the Sun"". The year is 2003, and Janice and Leonora are spending their last days on Earth before leaving for Mars to join Janice's husband Will. While having mixed feelings at first, Janice slowly reveals throughout the story that she is more and more willing to join her husband on Mars while still lamenting about leaving behind all that is"
"Tomorrow Midnight Tomorrow Midnight is a mass-market paperback collection of comic adaptations of eight short science fiction stories by Ray Bradbury, gathered from the pages of the EC Comics comic books of the 1950s. It is one of five EC collections published by Ballantine Books between 1964 and 1966 (the others are ""Tales from the Crypt"", ""The Vault of Horror"", ""Tales of the Incredible"" and ""The Autumn People""), and one of two made up of comic adaptations of Bradbury's work (the other is ""The Autumn People""). The presentation of the material is problematic at best, since the color comic book"