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Anthology contains: - Just Like Old Times / Robert J. Sawyer
- Disquisitions on the Dinosaur / Robert Sheckley
- Dino Trend / Pat Cadigan
- Greatest Dying / Frank M. Robinson
- Revenants / Judith Tarr
- One Giant Step / John E. Stith
- Last Rights / Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon
- After the Comet / Bill Fawcett
- Rex Tremandae Majestatis / Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
- Skull's Tale / Katherine Kerr
- Cutting Down Fred / Dean Wesley Smith
- Shadow of a Change / Michelle M. Sagara
- Wise One's Tale / Josepha Sherman
- Curren's Song / Laura Resnick
- Whilst Slept the Sauropod / Nicholas A. DiChario
- Rex / David Gerrold
- Pangaean Principle / Jack Nimersheim
- On Tiptoe / Beth Meacham
- Betrayal / Susan Cooper
- 'Saur Spot / Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
- Pteri / Lea Hernandez
- Chameleon / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Fellow Passengers / Barbara Delaplace
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dinosaur / Gregory Feeley
- Evolving Conspiracy / Roger MacBride Allen
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I was expecting, frankly, a lot of time travel stories and dino resurrection stories a la Jurassic Park, and there are certainly stories in that category. But a surprisingly number aren’t either, and that led to a relatively rich theme anthology.
However, if I would have thought about it for a bit, I should have realized how many metaphorical and symbolic uses our culture puts dinosaurs to.
Capitol punishment via mind transference to the Jurassic is the idea behind Robert J. Sawyer’s “Just Like Old Times”.
Time travelers introducing dinosaurs to Ancient Rome is only the beginning of a sort of wacky alternate history in Robert Sheckley’s “Disquisitions on the Dinosaurs”.
Gregory Feeley’s “Ways of Looking at a Dinosaur” surprised me. Normally, I’m not keen on metafiction and Feeley’s piece is that. It combines rumination on the symbolism of dinosaurs while spinning off several mini stories on the theme. However, it was one of my favorite pieces. However, it gets points taken off for the mealy mouth piece of pc rhetoric of “… the nineteenth century discovered that the Earth was hundreds of millions of years old”. No, it wasn’t “the nineteenth century”. It was European scientists.
Sure you know where Frank M. Robinson’s “The Great Dying” is going with its contemporary research into the possibility of a dinosaur plague, but it’s a sure-footed and enjoyable journey.
Bill Fawcett’s “After the Comet” is exactly what you would expect, but I enjoyed it, and it reminded me of the old writer of animal tales, Ernest Thompson Seaton.
The speculation that St. Columba encountered the Loch Ness monster is the idea behind Laura Resnick’s “Curren’s Song”. Another story with particular historical resonance, for a 1993 anthology, is Jack Nimersheim’s “The Pangaean Principle” with is ex-Soviet scientist hero and ruminations on vanished worlds geological and national.
Nicholas A. DiChario’s “Whilst Slept the Sauropod” is a fable like story of an isolated island with its own dinosaur.
David Gerrold’s “Rex” is a nasty combination of domestic troubles and household dinosaurs – miniaturized T-Rexes to be specific.
And anyone with a fondness for conspiracy theories will love Roger MacBride Allen’s “Evolving Conspiracy”. Chock full of conspiracy theories, the one it’s most concerned with is the very grand and very encompassing evolutionist-Communist conspiracy. ( )