johnh wrote:Rigger, that reminded me of a letter I had published in the Business section of the Daily Telegraph. It was several years ago, at the height of the economy 'crash'. The letter said:rigger wrote:A collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury featuring the groundbreaking "A Sound Of Thunder" about time travel and the butterfly effect.
That's the main reason I bought it because I'd heard such a amazing things about that particular tale, but the others are all top notch hard sci-fi, on a par with HG Wells short stories.
Got loads lined up though : a couple of football titles (including one of David's), a Danny Baker bio, a Len Deighton Harry Palmer story I missed back in the day plus a second world war title I picked up in a second-hand place in Sherbourne before Xmas, entitled "Onward To Malta". I'm expecting it to be a bit like Geoffrey Wellum's First Light, which was superb.
'Chaos theory stipulates that the flapping of a butterfly's wing in one part of the world can cause an earthquake in another part of the world (or something like that). Does this mean that if I have my bathroom re-tiled it will solve the world's economic crises?'
I didn't think they would publish it - but they did!
Brilliant
It didn't work though, did it ??
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