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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories That Know Everything's Better With
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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 14:00:12 -0400
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On 8/23/24 10:15 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 	http://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article333

Gotcha, thanks.
- Tony