Rivers of Time
- Автор: Де Камп Лайон Спрэг
- Год: 1993
- Язык: английский
- Год: Baen Books
- ISBN: 9781555940232
- Жанр: Научная фантастика
Электронная книга - «Rivers of Time». Краткое содержание книги:
Includes:
• Faunas (1968)
• A Gun for Dinosaur (1956)
• The Cayuse
• Crocamander Quest
• Miocene Romance
• The Synthetic Barbarian
• The Satanic Illusion
• The Big Splash
• The Mislaid Mastodon
• The Honeymoon Dragon
We'd gone two-thirds of the way round our half of the palmetto, when I heard a noise ahead on our left. Holtzinger heard it, too, and pushed off his safety. I put my thumb on mine and stepped to one side to have a clear field of fire.
The clatter grew louder. There was a movement in the foliage and a two-meter-high bonehead stepped into view, walking solemnly across our front and jerking its head with each step like a giant pigeon.
Then that damned gun of James s went off, bang!
"Got him!" yelled James. "I drilled him clean!" I. heard him run forward.
"Good God, if he hasn't done it again!" I said.
Then there was a great swishing of foliage and a wild yell from James. Something heaved up out of the shrubbery, and I saw the head of the biggest of the local flesh-eaters, Tyrannasaurus trionyches kimself ...
RIVERS OF TIME
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 1993 by L. Sprague de Camp
"A Gun for Dinosaur" is copyright © 1956 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation. Copyright renewed 1984 by L. Sprague de Camp.
"Crocamander Quest" is copyright © 1991 and first appeared in The Ultimate Dinosaur.
"Miocene Romance" is copyright © 1993 and first appeared in Analog magazine under the title "Pliocene Romance."
"The Synthetic Barbarian" is copyright © 1992 and first appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
"The Satanic Illusion" is copyright © 1992 and first appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
"The Big Splash" is copyright © 1992 and first appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
"The Mislaid Mastodon" is copyright © 1993 and first appeared in Analog magazine.
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
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ISBN: 0-671-72195-X
Cover art by Bob Walters
First printing, November 1993
To Nick Hotton and Bill Sarjeant, who vetted my paleontology,
and to Graeme Flanagan, who checked my Australian.
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