Clifton Standish’s motivation for travel to the Mesozoic is not entirely what it seems.
One day this bloke Standish came in with his friend Hofmann, saying they wanted a time safari to cave-man days, to shoot dinosaurs the way our ancestors used to do.

Variants

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  1. “The Synthetic Barbarian” by L. Sprague de Camp, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 1992.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by L. Sprague de Camp