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.

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  1. “Scherzo with Tyrannosaur” by Michael Swanwick, Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 1999.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Michael Swanwick

Translations

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  1. English: audio reading.
    “Scherzo with Tyrannosaur” by Michael Swanwick, in SciFi Audio Frequency: The Hugo Nominees 2000 (SciFi Audio, audio book, 2000).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Michael Swanwick
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Tim Klein
  2. English: audio reading.
    “Scherzo with Tyrannosaur” by Michael Swanwick, in Timeless Time Travel Tales, edited by Allan Kaster (AudioText, audio book, February 2012).
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Michael Swanwick
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Tom Dheere
    Adam Epstein
  3. French.
    “Scherzo avec tyrannosaure” by Michael Swanwick, Galaxies #15, December 1999.
    4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Michael Swanwick
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by unknown persons
  4. Spanish.
    “Scherzo con tiranosaurio” by Michael Swanwick, Gigamesh #31, early 2002.
    5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Michael Swanwick
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by León Arsenal

Indexer Notes

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  1. We don’t know which of the two male narrators (Tom Dheere or Adam Epstein) for Timeless Time Travel Tales narrated “Scherzo with Tyrannosaur.”