Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories That Know Everything's Better With
 Dinosaurs
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:50:28 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 48
Message-ID: <vab076$11l4a$1@dont-email.me>
References: <vaa5i7$85s$1@panix2.panix.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:50:31 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b3139323f968c20f456c2a6c519ded1c";
	logging-data="1102986"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18X4lOFeqsufb59rxYHPEKlpyV6JZSccrI="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:yIzRqoCR24t4bNGPXJGtHxZ6sow=
In-Reply-To: <vaa5i7$85s$1@panix2.panix.com>
Content-Language: en-US
Bytes: 2900

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.