Time Travel with Phil ROUS 8:29

A Gun for Dinosaur by L. Sprague De Camp (1956)

“You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's specialist. You have to call them per-petroleum persons.” ― Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Bomb

Summary - Non spoiled

• Length:26 Pages
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Category: Time Travel "Golden Age of Science Fiction"
• Characters:
• Mr. Seligman (a man who wants to hunt dinosaurs but only weighs 150 pounds.)
• Narrator/Dinosaur Hunting Guide
• Raja the hunting partner to the Guide.
• Augie Holtzinger: a customer who goes hunting despite his fiance's warnings.
• James: a gun happy hunter who might rival the dinosaur in the size of his brain.
• Clare: Augie Holtzinger's Fiance.
• Setting:Missouri.
• Year Story Is to Take Place:The future with the time machine, and the past 100,000 B.C. or earlier. The butterfly effect does not reach out to us when we change the period from 100,000 B.C. or earlier; but if we move to much closer to our own time this will create devastating effects.

What's It About, Man?

L.Sprague De Camp masterfully tells what the relationship between Dinosaurs and man would truly be. His details are realistic and his stories are formed by the science that has been uncovered from this time period. This story seemed more realistic than Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder."

Time Travel with Phil ROUS 6:29

Painting: by Utagawa Kuniyoshi(1899)

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradburry(1952)

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives—of approving of some and disapproving of others. Charles Darwin

Summary-Non Spoiled

• Length:11 Pages
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Category: Time Travel in the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Dinosaur Time Travel.


• Rules and Possible Paradoxes Of Time Travel
1. Stay on the path. A time traveler can not touch the past in any way or there are giant consequences. "With a stump of your foot, you annihilate first one, then a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice."Butterfly Effect
2. Can't meet your self.




What's It About?

A group of men go on a hunt. The hunt takes place back in time during the age of the dinosaurs. The only rule for the hunt is stay on the path. What happens when one man walks off the path? What consequences are there in a future world not yet evolved?

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Three questions raised in Lost World Narratives are:

 

1.       Is the primitive more evolved than modern man? 

2.       Is there a place where the modern world is reshape-able, free from the cost of sin? 

3.       Can the main character reshape self free of past?

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Book Reviews The People That Time Forgot part Two of the Caspak Series: The Land That Time Forgot, The People That Time Forgot, and Out of Time's Abyss

The present rubbed legs with the past, it set a strange milieu.  Edgar Rice Burroughs leads a tour of Caprona.  He leads us through strange lands amidst noble savages and sub-humans.   The book is a Caprona tour, but lacks action to be exciting.  It makes me wonder if he was forced to write this one.  

(I listened to this on libri vox read by  Ralph Snelson)

Caveat lector, the ideas of the early 20th century are not of our own, and may offend those with politically correct notions.  

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The Land That Time Forgot Part One of the Capak Series

The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A fun read, but not as good as the LOST WORLD by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.   The characters seemed flat and cartoonish.  It is difficult to feel heartedly for cartoons.   However, the overall story arch is classic adventure tale and can be a delightful journey.   Two movies are available on Netflix for your viewing.

Caveat Lector: the ideas of the early 20th century  are not of our own, and may offend those with politically correct notions.  Feminists may be offended by the seeming lack of respect paid towards women of this period. 


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