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."
