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the heat and humidity of the world to which
Reginald Rivers and his band of hunters are transported--and feel the bites from insects with mouthparts evolved to pierce dinosaur hide. He does a masterful job of discussing the difficulties inherent in hunting extinct behemoths with weapons small enough for one man to handle. When troubles arise, they do so as a natural consequence of the characters' personalities, and are more moving and convincing because of that." He feels the story "has also aged very well, despite the vast increase in paleontological knowledge in the past half-century."
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deems the piece a "classic, ... at the same time a fine character study, a meditation on time-travel paradoxes (here treated as something the continuum seeks to avoid rather than a likely result of voyaging into the past), and a splendid re-creation of a vanished world. De Camp makes the reader feel
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Holtzinger's body could be recovered, a furious quarrel with James ensues. He and the guides each blame the other for their companion's death, which leads to a fist fight between James and Rivers in which James is defeated. James tries to shoot Rivers but is knocked out by Aiyar. James then
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originally came out of the time machine. Since that obviously had not happened, however, the space-time continuum avoids the paradox by spontaneously snapping James back to the present, with the forces involved instantly killing him.
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business. Seligman's contributions to the conversation are omitted and must be inferred from those of Rivers. Rivers informs the client that he is not big enough to hunt the
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2009:The Bronze God of Rhodes
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1603:The People of the Summit
1582:The Lair of the Ice Worm
1483:The Treasure of Tranicos
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1193:The Mathematics of Magic
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2722:The Purple Pterodactyls
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1652:The Thing in the Crypt
1617:The Road of the Eagles
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