Compare And Contrast A Sound Of Thunder And Nethergrave

Ray Bradbury’s ‘A sound of Thunder” and the Gloris Skurzynskis’s ‘Nethergrave’ are both science fiction short stories that its main characters with the help of very advanced technology are able to traverse hand of time and manage to live in a different world, ‘the other world”. In A sound of thunder Eckels with a couple of his friends by using time traveler machine travel to Jurassic period to hunt Dinosaurs and are able to live in that time and experience real time events. . In the ‘Nethergrave’ the main character Jeremy by the help of his hi-tech computer is able to ‘physically’ go into ‘the other world’ as an avatar, (jaguar) and he is able to experience events as the living jaguar could for example he looked through its eyes. Also, when his mom walks in the room, Jeremy was not in the room yet the Jaguar was in the Jeremy’s computer screen. In the ‘Nethergrave’ Jeremy is able to go to
They both speculate on the possible effects that these advanced programs can have on man.
One of the differences between the short stories is that ‘A sound of Thunder’ is a pure science fiction where things only happen in future setting 2255 AD and in Jurassic period whereas in ‘Nethergrave’ things happen in real world that translates into a fictional world .
In ‘A sound of thunder’ very small actions translates into tremendous effects in time as the author refers them to “infinitesimally”, for example a Jurassic butter fly accidentally killed by Eckels leads to extreme changes in the future like the change in the US president and even language spelling. In ‘Nethergrave’ Jeremy’s detailed day’s activities like being forced to play football, coming late for the chat and his friends signing out earlier does not influence him joining Nethergrave .Events event