Gloria Skurzynski’s “Nethergrave” is a superior work of science fiction compared to Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" because it has an important theme, has better charcterization, and is much more original. A Sound of Thunder and Nethergrave fit into the genre of science fiction because the use of futuristic technology to travel to new places is a key element in both plots. A Sound of Thunder features the age old fantasy of time travel and Nethergrave uses a computer to create an interdimensional world. Both stories have good characterization. Nethergrave uses more diect characterization while A Sound of Thunder uses alot of indirect characterization. This means that, in Nethergrave, the characters are frequently described directly through
