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

On 8/25/2024 2:01 PM, Tony Nance wrote:

On 8/23/24 11:44 PM, Ahasuerus wrote:

On 8/23/2024 5:50 PM, Tony Nance wrote:
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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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Robert F. Young's "When Time Was New" (1964) (expanded as _Eridahn_ in 1983) was nice.

 Good to know - thanks. Since some expansions are better than others (and if you have indeed read them both), did you prefer one over the other?

This was discussed back in June 2005 when Peter Meilinger wrote:
 > Robert F. Young turned his short story "When Time Was New" into
 > a novel, Eridahn. I prefer the short version, but the book was
 > good, too. Just read the shorter one first, I'd say. The basic
 > premise is pretty cool - scientists explore the time of the
 > dinosaurs by using time traveling dinosaur shaped tanks.
My logs -- I don't trust my memory as much as I used to -- don't say anything substantive about _Eridahn_, so chances are that I haven't read it. Something to rectify, perhaps.