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When a Tyrannosaurus rex suffers pain from meat trapped between its enormous teeth, a nearby colony of ants risks entering the great creature's maw to make their own repast from the remains of the dinosaur's most recent meal. From this humble beginning, over the course of millennia, a symbiotic civilization achieves amazing advances, reaching dizzying heights in countless endeavors scientific and social, facing dangers and exploiting opportunities at every turn.

Hugo and Sturgeon Award nominated novelette.

This Hugo Award-nominated story takes place in the distant future, when a highly-evolved humanity finds itself at war with the alien Shars. The product of eight million years of evolution, Ambassador Drill is sent to make peace... but does he retain enough of his humanity to recognize that of his enemies?

The story originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1987. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (1988), edited by Gardner Dozois, The 1988 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Arthur W. Saha and Donald A. Wollheim, Future on Ice (1998) edited Orson Scott Card and The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future (2000) edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collections Facets (1990) and The Best of Walter Jon Williams (2021).

Owen Spencer would never have agreed to lead the time-slip expedition back to the Jurassic period -- the Age of Reptiles -- had he foreseen the terrifying experiences in store for the small group making the expedition. Chartering the expedition was Dirk Masterson, a treacherous big game hunter, whose alleged purpose was to take pictures of the enormous reptiles that roamed Jurassic times. Even when Masterson smashed the jeep into the force field, destroying the only protection that stood between the group and the lumbering beasts, Owen could not be sure it was an accident.

Evan Hunter has written a fast-moving tale of people stranded on earth in its infancy and forced to pit their ingenuity and strength against mammoth reptiles. It might not have been so bad if Masterson, with his mania for big game hunting had not continued to shoot at every reptile he spotted. But his madman tactics repeatedly aroused the fury of the hideous dinosaurs, whose attacks drove the farther and farther away from the relay area that would slip them back to the present when the week was up.

The weird circumstances that made Owen's brother, Chuck, take over the leadership of the expedition and the even stranger adjustment of the time stream that left the party with the inexplicable feeling that somebody was missing makes Danger: Dinosaurs! an unusual and fascinating treatment of the ever-provocative time theme. The desperate search for the relay area, interrupted by fierce fights with flesh-eating monsters, and an earthquake that creates a chaos of stampeding animals give this story action that is as alien as any distant planet.

Nebula winning and Hugo and Sturgeon Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2002. The story can also be found in the anthology Nebula Awards Showcase 2004, edited by Vonda N. McIntyre.

Sturgeon Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2001. The story can also be found in the anthology Year's Best SF 7 (2002), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - (1990) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
• A Gun for Dinosaur - (1956) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• Poor Little Warrior! - (1958) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• Green Brother - (1982) - short story by Howard Waldrop
• Hatching Season - (1985) - short story by Harry Turtledove
• Getting Away - (1976) - short story by Steven Utley
• The Runners - (1978) - short story by Bob Buckley
• The Last Thunder Horse West of the Mississippi - (1988) - novelette by Sharon N. Farber
• Strata - (1980) - novelette by Edward Bryant
• Time's Arrow - (1950) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• A Change in the Weather - (1981) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• The Night-blooming Saurian - (1970) - short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Dinosaur - (1987) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Dinosaurs - (1985) - short story by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Dinosaur on a Bicycle - (1987) - novelette by Tim Sullivan

Table of Contents:

• Preface - (1995) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
• The Big Splash - (1992) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• Just Like Old Times - (1993) - short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• The Virgin and the Dinosaur - (1992) - novella by R. Garcia y Robertson
• The Odd Old Bird - (1988) - short story by Avram Davidson
• Bernie - (1994) - novelette by Ian McDowell
• Small Deer - (1965) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
• Dinosaur Pliés - (1989) - short story by R. V. Branham
• Day of the Hunters - (1950) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• Herding with the Hadrosaurs - (1992) - short story by Michael Bishop
• Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny - (1990) - short story by R. Garcia y Robertson
• Trembling Earth - (1990) - novella by Allen Steele

This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 23, July-August 2018.

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This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 23, July-August 2018.

Read the full story for free at Uncanny.

This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 23, July-August 2018.

Read the full story for free at Uncanny.

This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 23, July-August 2018.

Read the full story for free at Uncanny.

This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 23, July-August 2018.

Read the full story for free at Uncanny.

This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 23, July-August 2018.

Read the full story for free at Uncanny.

This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 23, July-August 2018.

Read the full story for free at Uncanny.

This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 23, July-August 2018.

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Welcome to a Steampunk wild west starring Doc Holliday, with zombies, dinosaurs, robots, and cowboys.

The time is April, 1885. Doc Holliday lies in bed in a sanitarium in Leadville, Colorado, expecting never to leave his room again. But the medicine man and great chief Geronimo needs him for one last adventure. Renegade Comanche medicine men object to the newly-signed treaty with Theodore Roosevelt. They are venting their displeasure on two white men who are desecrating tribal territory in Wyoming. Geronimo must protect the men or renege on his agreement with Roosevelt. He offers Doc one year of restored health in exchange for taking on this mission.

Welcome to the birth of American paleontology, spearheaded by two brilliant men, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, two men whose genius is only exceeded by their hatred for each other's guts.

Now, with the aid of Theodore Roosevelt, Cole Younger, and Buffalo Bill Cody, Doc Holliday must save Cope and Marsh not only from the Comanches, not only from living, breathing dinosaurs, but from each other. And that won't be easy.