Landscape with Giant Bison
- by Avram Davidson
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Landscape with Giant Bison” by Avram Davidson, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 1986.
Never is it easy to discern what’s in the mind of the indiscernible Avram Davidson, but I suspect that he was on a train journey with a plethora of tourists—perhaps the California Zephyr, which enters the majestic Rockies at a point just outside of Eldorado State Park—and he thought to himself, “Just what would it take to pull my fellow travelers away from that there card game?”
A wooly rhino appeared out of nowhere on the right side of the track, its red hide caked with mud and dust, and paced the car for two miles; then it slackened and turned away, was lost to sight.
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- “Landscape with Giant Bison” by Avram Davidson, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 1986.