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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories That Know Everything's Better With
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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:01:13 -0400
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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:
>> [snip-snip]
>>> 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]
>> [snip]
>>
>> 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.