Scherzo with Tyrannosaur
by Michael Swanwick
The director of Hilltop Research Station extinguishes various fires while hosting a donor
dinner in the Cretaceous and planning predatory behavior of his own to keep the donor
funds flowing, all while ensuring that the mysterious beings known only as the Unchanging
remain in the dark about a quagmire of time travel violations.
— Michael Main
It would bring our sponsors down upon us like so many angry hornets. The Unchanging would
yank time travel out of human hands—retroactively.
“Scherzo with Tyrannosaur” by Michael Swanwick, Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 1999.