"Hunters in the Forest"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1991
ID: 481
Publication history:
- ????: Sci-Fi Volume 2, Random House Audio CD
- 1991: Omni October 1991, Magazine
- 1991: The Ultimate Dinosaur, Bantam Hard cover book, ISBN 0553076760, 336 pp.
- 1999: Thbes aux cent portes, J'ai lu Mass market paperback, ISBN 2277232270, 317 pp., in French as Chasseurs en fort
- 2000: Alexandria Digital Literature, Alexandria Digital Online
- 2000: Lion Time in Timbuctoo (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 6), Harper & Row Trade paperback, ISBN 0006512208, 390 pp.
- 2000: Lion Time in Timbuctoo (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 6), Voyager Trade paperback, ISBN 0006512208, 400 pp.
- 2000: The Ultimate Dinosaur, iBooks Hard cover book, ISBN 0743400062, 429 pp.
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
- 2001: Hunters in the Forest, Random House Audio CD
- 2004: Phases of the Moon, iBooks Trade paperback, ISBN 0743498011, 623 pp.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
This story was written to illustrate the topic of Dinosaur Predators in the Ultimate Dinosaur collection. The audio version, narrated by Brian Corrigan is available from Audible.com.
Visiting the Age of Dinosaurs has become a fashionable passtime among the rich classes of the future. You ride back in a capsule, hop out, the capsule disappears, and at the appointed time, the capsule reappears to take you home. Tom Mallory of 2281 voyages to the Late Cretaceous and against the odds meets another time traveller.