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"Time's Arrow" (1950) by Arthur C. Clarke (5/5)
Meticulously crafted story about time travel. You kind of figured out what the ending was going to be, but the setup and execution (even using the noise from the pneumatic drill to make the ending even better) was just perfect.
— Oct 28, 2022 03:58PM
Meticulously crafted story about time travel. You kind of figured out what the ending was going to be, but the setup and execution (even using the noise from the pneumatic drill to make the ending even better) was just perfect.
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"Dinosaur on a Bicycle" (1987) by Tim Sullivan (3/5)
The anthology ends with what I can only describe as a steampunk time travel tale with a twist. I thought started strong but went off the rails (or should I say gears?) towards the end.
— Nov 03, 2022 06:38PM
The anthology ends with what I can only describe as a steampunk time travel tale with a twist. I thought started strong but went off the rails (or should I say gears?) towards the end.
Ryan
is 90% done
"Dinosaurs" (1985) by Geoffrey A. Landis (4/5)
What if the iridium seen at the K-T boundary was radiation from the future? This brief story conjures up a way for that to happen. (poor dinosaurs).
— Oct 31, 2022 06:18PM
What if the iridium seen at the K-T boundary was radiation from the future? This brief story conjures up a way for that to happen. (poor dinosaurs).
Ryan
is 85% done
"Dinosaur" (1987) by Steve Rasnic Tem (3/5)
Well-written contemporary story with a dinosaur theme woven throughout. Not really science fiction.
— Oct 30, 2022 08:48AM
Well-written contemporary story with a dinosaur theme woven throughout. Not really science fiction.
Ryan
is 80% done
"The Nightblooming Saurian" (1970) by James Tiptree, Jr (4/5)
An amusing tale of the lengths a group of time-traveling scientists went to keep their expeditions funded.
— Oct 29, 2022 07:38AM
An amusing tale of the lengths a group of time-traveling scientists went to keep their expeditions funded.
Ryan
is 70% done
"Strata" by Edward Bryant (1980) 5/5
The Big Chill meets horror in this creepy tale. Four Wyoming high school friends see a weird creature after prom, then reunite decades later to seek it out again among the ancient cliff faces along US 20. Given the title of the anthology, you can kinda guess the ending, but even so, it gets there in an interesting way.
— Oct 24, 2022 07:02PM
The Big Chill meets horror in this creepy tale. Four Wyoming high school friends see a weird creature after prom, then reunite decades later to seek it out again among the ancient cliff faces along US 20. Given the title of the anthology, you can kinda guess the ending, but even so, it gets there in an interesting way.
Ryan
is 55% done
"The Last Thunder Lizard West of the Mississippi" (1988) by Sharon N. Farber (4/5)
— Oct 22, 2022 04:37PM
Ryan
is 45% done
"The Runners" (1978) by Bob Buckley (4/5)
Like several other tales in this collection, "The Runners" concerns a scientific expedition to study dinosaurs. This one dealt with a discovery that the fossil evidence couldn't have predicted, and one that surmises why the dinosaurs suddenly disappeared. This story was written just before the Chicxulub crater was discovered, likely the cause of the K-T extinctions.
— Oct 21, 2022 05:55PM
Like several other tales in this collection, "The Runners" concerns a scientific expedition to study dinosaurs. This one dealt with a discovery that the fossil evidence couldn't have predicted, and one that surmises why the dinosaurs suddenly disappeared. This story was written just before the Chicxulub crater was discovered, likely the cause of the K-T extinctions.
Ryan
is 40% done
"Getting Away" by Steven Utley (1978) 2/5
A weird combination of seventies dystopian nihilism with mind-jumping into other people/creatures throughout time . The closing point was that the dinosaurs at least had the dignity to die off gracefully without the taking the planet with them (!)
— Oct 17, 2022 04:51PM
A weird combination of seventies dystopian nihilism with mind-jumping into other people/creatures throughout time . The closing point was that the dinosaurs at least had the dignity to die off gracefully without the taking the planet with them (!)
Ryan
is 34% done
"Hatching Day" by Harry Turtledove (4/5)
Interesting story about a scientist finding out the hard way whether a newly-hatched dinosaur knows its way back to the nest. One mark against it was a throw-away line which completely misunderstood the King Canute story (he commanded the tide to come to prove that he wasn't all-powerful).
— Oct 14, 2022 06:28PM
Interesting story about a scientist finding out the hard way whether a newly-hatched dinosaur knows its way back to the nest. One mark against it was a throw-away line which completely misunderstood the King Canute story (he commanded the tide to come to prove that he wasn't all-powerful).
