Think Like a Dinosaur

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"Think Like a Dinosaur" was originally published in the June 1995 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction

"Think Like a Dinosaur" (1995) is a science fiction novelette written by James Patrick Kelly. Originally published in the June 1995 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, it was subsequently featured in:

• Year's Best SF (1996, edited by David G. Hartwell)
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996, edited by Gardner Dozois)
• Nebula Awards 31 (1997, edited by Pamela Sargent)
• Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories (1997, by James Patrick Kelley)
• "Think Like a Dinosaur" episode of The Outer Limits (2001)
• The Hard SF Renaissance (2002, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer)

The story won the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the Asimov's Reader Poll Award, and the SF Chronicle Award. It was also nominated for the Locus Poll Award, the HOMer Award and the Nebula Award.

It was read by Michael O'Hare for Sci-Fi's Seeing Ear Theatre.

In the story a woman is teleported to an alien planet, but the original is not disintegrated because reception cannot be confirmed at the time. Reception is later confirmed, and the original, not surprisingly, declines to "balance the equation" by re-entering the scanning and disintegrating device. This creates an ethical quandary which is viewed quite differently by the cold-blooded aliens who provided the teleportation technology, and their warm-blooded human associates

External links

• Think Like a Dinosaur title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database