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780:, calls de Camp "one of the great old pros of the SF field. When reading him, you're always guaranteed a good time, and sometimes more." She gives the collection a three star rating, deeming it "lightweight, amusing work ... very well done candy, with a little paleontological education thrown in," and "particularly sharp shots at fundamentalists and animal-rights activists." But the stories, she feels, "are very old-fashioned;" often "merely vignettes, with action but little plot, and they all follow the same formulaic structure." She finds the characters "drawn with broad strokes on high-quality cardboard, motivations ... at best shadowy. " She notes, however, that "de Camp's sense of humor never fails, and the tales are often witty." She judges them "best, and funniest, if they're not all read at one sitting." 358:
as a conductor of time safaris to previous eras, both to hunt prehistoric creatures and for scientific purposes (and, occasionally, anti-scientific purposes). In addition to Rivers, the main recurring characters include fellow members of his safari firm, including his partner Chandra Aiyar, camp boss Beauregard Black, and cook Ming. In most instances, the actions of their human clients prove more troublesome than those of the extinct fauna, a theme set in "Faunas", a 1968 poem by de Camp that precedes the stories. An afterword by the author tells how he came to write the series.
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The timestream does not appear to allow paradox, defined as anything that might significantly alter events subsequent to the period visited. For instance, a person cannot travel to the same time twice. Attempting to do results in one being thrown back to the present, "torn to shreds in the process."
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The Rivers stories take the form of first-person narratives by the protagonist told to companions whose identities vary, but who have in common the fact that their contributions to the conversation are omitted, and must be inferred from those of Rivers. Every story is an anecdote from Rivers' career
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The same would presumably result from attempting to interact with early humans. Therefore, the time machine is restricted from visiting the period of protohuman development, and refrains from visiting any time within one thousand years of a previous visit.
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is a well researched time travel series, paleontological knowledge has improved since the stories were written, rendering some aspects of its portrait of the prehistoric past obsolete. Dated material includes the following:
298:, January 1993 (as "Pliocene Romance")) – A female animal rights activist stows away on a time safari chartered by a father and son to prevent anyone from shooting the animals, enraging the father and intriguing the son. 692:
and other fauna portrayed as living in the middle Cretaceous in fact appeared in the last five to seven million years of the period; the actual fauna of the middle Cretaceous included species such as
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The effective range of the stories' time machine is from about one hundred thousand years to about one billion years in the past, with periods more recent or earlier beyond its ability to reach.
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are mentioned occasionally, and many times Reginald Rivers will say that the Raja is out in some period in the Cenozoic, taking a group to hunt some form of prehistoric mammal such as
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from the past to the present, subsequent events prove disastrous. The plot feature of a disaffected businessman's designs on a recovered prehistoric
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The amount of time the machine spends in another era appears to equal in length to the amount of time that elapses in the present, in its absence.
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of the late Triassic period is portrayed as a carnosaur; current thinking suggests that it and most other "carnosaurs" of the time were actually
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and other sauropods, portrayed as aquatic creatures forced to stay in the water much of the time, are now recognized as fully land-dwelling.
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The further back in time the machine travels the less accurate it is; beyond the Triassic, it may arrive days or even months off schedule.
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are mentioned in "The Synthetic Barbarian," and numerous Pleistocene megafauna are seen in "The Mislaid Mastodon," including
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and resolve rival theories about its cause nearly makes the time-travelers participants in the great extinction.
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A tenth story of Reginald Rivers, "Gun, Not for Dinosaur", authored by
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by going back in time in Africa to kill their prehistoric ancestors.
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Prehistoric species of various eras featured in the series include
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The book collects the author's nine tales of time-traveling hunter
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Science fiction short story collections by L. Sprague de Camp
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as Rivers' client, a racist Texas millionaire, and his two
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The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens
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Eisen, reviewing the work in 361: 317:Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 303:Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 2785: 909: 874:v. 7, no. 4, Spring 1994, pages 53-54. 2229:Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants 883: 846:Internet Speculative Fiction Database 832: 828:Internet Speculative Fiction Database 812: 338:echoes de Camp's much earlier story " 2109:The Heroic Age of American Invention 864: 783:The collection was also reviewed by 649: 381: 165:short stories by American writer 13: 2250:Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages 750:. 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Index


L. Sprague de Camp
Science fiction
Baen Books
ISBN
0-671-72195-X
OCLC
29138676
LC Class
science fiction
L. Sprague de Camp
Baen Books
Galaxy
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Analog
Asimov's Science Fiction
Robert Silverberg
The Ultimate Dinosaur
A Gun for Dinosaur
Audible Studios
A Gun for Dinosaur
X Minus One
a mating scent
Parasaurolophus
the K-T event
mastodon
proboscidean
Employment
Agriochoerus
Alamosaurus

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