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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories That Know Everything's Better With
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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
>> 
>>  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.
>> 
>>
>https://reactormag.com/five-stories-that-know-everythings-better-with-dinosaurs/
>
>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:
>
>
>A Gun for Dinosaur - L. Sprague de Camp
>I (re)read this earlier this year.
>
>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]
>
>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:
>
>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
>
>which includes this story I read just last year (but had forgotten):
>Wildcat - Poul Anderson
>
>and which includes many other stories I'm unfamiliar with.[2]
>
>Just fyi:
>Laumer’s Dinosaur Beach barely has any dinosaurs in it at all.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>

In van Vogt's "M33 In Andromeda", the Andromeda intelligence is
dinosauring the whole galaxy iirc.
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