Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories That Know Everything's Better With Dinosaurs

On 8/23/24 6:04 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vab076$11l4a$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/23/24 10:15 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Five Stories That Know Everything's Better With Dinosaurs
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  From time travel to alternate timelines, science fiction authors keep
finding novel ways to bring us into contact with dinosaurs--some
friendly, others not so much.
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https://reactormag.com/five-stories-that-know-everythings-better-with-dinosaurs/

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Interesting...very interesting. A few that fit came to mind, including
one who's title was elusive as heck for a while (the Aldiss) - and in
chasing it down, I found one that I had forgotten in an anthology I'd
never heard of:
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A Gun for Dinosaur - L. Sprague de Camp
I (re)read this earlier this year.
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Tunnel Through Time - Lester del Rey and Paul W. Fairman (This was
probably just Fairman, working from an idea/outline Lester gave him.)
This was one of the first two science fiction books I ever read.[1]
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Poor Little Warrior! - Brian W. Aldiss
I was chasing down the title to this Aldiss story when I stumbled across
this anthology that I'd never heard of:
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The Science Fictional Dinosaur, ed. by Martin H. Greenberg, Robert
Silverberg, and Charles G. Waugh
The complete list of stories is here
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?46564
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which includes this story I read just last year (but had forgotten):
Wildcat - Poul Anderson
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and which includes many other stories I'm unfamiliar with.[2]
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Just fyi:
Laumer’s Dinosaur Beach barely has any dinosaurs in it at all.
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Lastly, a story that (to me) only sort of fits:
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth - Roger Zelazny
which features a hunt for a 300-foot-long denizen of the Venusian oceans
commonly called "Ikky"...on Venus.
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Tony
[1] The other candidate being Silverberg's Planet of Death
[2] I've read the Asimov, but I do not remember one thing about it.
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In van Vogt's "M33 In Andromeda", the Andromeda intelligence is
dinosauring the whole galaxy iirc.

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Is that "dinosauring" in the sense of "extinct-ifying"? At least, that
is a Space Beagle story[1], and I don't think there are any dinosaurs in
those stories[2].
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Tony
[1] unless it isn't
[2] unless there are
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