Rivers of Time

HAVE GUN, WILL TIME TRAVEL Time travel came along just in time to save Reginald Rivers' livelihood: guiding safaris hunting big game. There is no longer any big game surviving outside of preserves, but in the world millions of years past, from the Paleocene to the Pleistocene, bigger game than any in the modern world was available in abundance. Anyone who could pay Rivers' considerable fee could hunt the dinosaur of his or her choice. And, high as it is, Rivers sometimes thinks his fee too low considering the headaches he gets from his clients. Among his motley crew of time voyagers are fundamentalists determined to prove that evolution is a fraud, a stowaway animal rights fanatic who doesn't care that the animals that Rivers shoots have been extinct for millions of years, a pair of scientists keen to watch the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, and a woman intent on bedding every member of the safari, including her ex-husband. Tyrannosaurus rex is a mere inconvenience compared to this assortment of Homo sapiens… CONTENTS Faunas (1968) - poem 1. A Gun for Dinosaur (1956) 2. The Cayuse (1993) 3. Crocamander Quest (1992) 4. Miocene Romance 5. The Synthetic Barbarian (1992) 6. The Satanic Illusion (1992) 7. The Big Splash (1992) 8. The Mislaid Mastodon (1993) 9. The Honeymoon Dragon Author's Afterword