Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!shor From: shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.books Subject: Re: BACK TO THE FUTURE (actually book title request) Message-ID: <837@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 23:38:09 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.837 Posted: Tue Jul 16 23:38:09 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 06:12:41 EDT References: <790@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <768@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.movies:7063 net.books:2038 > From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) > It was a short story in a collection > by Heinlen(I think). The hero of the story left his time with > everything running smoothly and everyone happy. When he returns, > everything is in a mess - war, pestilence, etc.. All because he > stepped on that butterfly. It could have been by Heinlein, but methinks it was actually by Bradbury. At any rate, the time travellers return from their jaunt to the age of the dinosaurs , and one (the guide, I believe) notices that some words on a sign are spelled archaically. He looks at the other time traveller, sees a butterfly stuck to the bottom of his shoe, and shoots him. We're left with the sense that the oddly spelled sign is the tip of the iceberg, and that history might be a fragile thing. I don't remember war *or* pestilence appearing explicitly. -- Melinda Shore ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!shor University of Chicago Computation Center Staff.Melinda%chip@UChicago.Bitnet