The residents of a small town participate in a lottery to determine who will be sacrificed to ensure a good crop.
51. A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury
In the future, technology has been developed to allow people to go back in time (to any era) and go hunting. The only stipulation is that the hunter can only kill an animal that was about to die anyway, so as not to interfere with the natural processes that made the future world what it was. Of course, it takes only a very small mistake to upset everything ...
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
