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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 <vab1sp$12k83$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>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
>>>>
>>>>   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.
>
>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].
>
>Tony
>[1] unless it isn't
>[2] unless there are
>

"Dinosauring" as wiping everything else out in favor of (pulp) Venus-like
jungle worlds with dinosaur-ish fauna.


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