<P> In the year 2055 , time travel has become a practical reality , and the company Time Safari Inc. offers wealthy adventurers the chance to travel back in time to hunt extinct species such as dinosaurs . A hunter named Eckels pays $10,000 to join a hunting party that will travel back 66 million years to the Late Cretaceous period , on a guided safari to kill a Tyrannosaurus rex . As the party waits to depart , they discuss the recent presidential elections in which an apparently fascist candidate , Deutscher , has been defeated by the more moderate Keith , to the relief of many concerned . When the party arrives in the past , Travis ( the hunting guide ) and Lesperance ( Travis 's assistant ) warn Eckels and the two other hunters , Billings and Kramer , about the necessity of minimizing the events they change before they go back , since tiny alterations to the distant past could snowball into catastrophic changes in history . Travis explains that the hunters are obliged to stay on a levitating path to avoid disrupting the environment , that any deviation will be punished with hefty fines , and that prior to the hunt , Time Safari scouts had been sent back to select and tag their prey , which would have died within minutes anyway , and whose death has been calculated to have minimal effect on the future . </P>
<P> In the year 2055 , time travel has become a practical reality , and the company Time Safari Inc. offers wealthy adventurers the chance to travel back in time to hunt extinct species such as dinosaurs . A hunter named Eckels pays $10,000 to join a hunting party that will travel back 66 million years to the Late Cretaceous period , on a guided safari to kill a Tyrannosaurus rex . As the party waits to depart , they discuss the recent presidential elections in which an apparently fascist candidate , Deutscher , has been defeated by the more moderate Keith , to the relief of many concerned . When the party arrives in the past , Travis ( the hunting guide ) and Lesperance ( Travis 's assistant ) warn Eckels and the two other hunters , Billings and Kramer , about the necessity of minimizing the events they change before they go back , since tiny alterations to the distant past could snowball into catastrophic changes in history . Travis explains that the hunters are obliged to stay on a levitating path to avoid disrupting the environment , that any deviation will be punished with hefty fines , and that prior to the hunt , Time Safari scouts had been sent back to select and tag their prey , which would have died within minutes anyway , and whose death has been calculated to have minimal effect on the future . </P>
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year 2055
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