Day of the Hunters
- by Isaac Asimov
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Day of the Hunters” by Isaac Asimov, in Future Science Fiction, November 1950.
A midwestern professor tells a half-drunken story of time travel and the real cause of the dinosaur extinction.
—Michael Main
Because I built a time machine for myself a couple of years ago and went back to the Mesozoic Era and found out what happened to the dinosaurs.
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- Time Periods
- Age of Reptiles (252 Ma to 66 Ma: Mesozoic/Triassic/Jurassic/Cretaceous): the Cretaceous
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949: “. . . the war was on then . . .”
- Time Travel Methods
- Wellsian Time Machines: “I got back in the machine, returned, and broke it up.”
- Themes
- True Histories: true history of the extinction of the dinosaurs
- Real-World Tags
- Cold War: Asimov says that the “story, alas, seems to have a moral.”
- Dinosaurs
- Extinction Events
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Day of the Hunters” by Isaac Asimov, in Future Science Fiction, November 1950.