Robert J. Sawyer - Just Like Old Times

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Just Like Old Times
by Robert J. Sawyer
Copyright © 1993 by Robert J. Sawyer
All Rights Reserved
Commissioned for the anthology Dinosaur Fantastic, edited by Mike Resnick
and Martin H. Greenberg (DAW, 1993); first published in On Spec: The
Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writing, Summer 1993.
That's the cover of the issue of On Spec this story originally appeared in;
it was also reprinted in several anthologies including On Spec: The First
Five Years, Dinosaurs II, and Northern Stars.
Winner of both the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award ("the Aurora")
for Best English-Language Short Story of 1993 and the Crime Writers of
Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story of 1993.
Just Like Old Times
by Robert J. Sawyer
The transference went smoothly, like a scalpel slicing into skin.
Cohen was simultaneously excited and disappointed. He was thrilled
to be here -- perhaps the judge was right, perhaps this was indeed where he
really belonged. But the gleaming edge was taken off that thrill because it
wasn't accompanied by the usual physiological signs of excitement: no sweaty
palms, no racing heart, no rapid breathing. Oh, there was a heartbeat, to be
sure, thundering in the background, but it wasn't Cohen's.
It was the dinosaur's.
Everything was the dinosaur's: Cohen saw the world now through
tyrannosaur eyes.
The colors seemed all wrong. Surely plant leaves must be the same
chlorophyll green here in the Mesozoic, but the dinosaur saw them as navy blue.
The sky was lavender; the dirt underfoot ash gray.
Old bones had different cones, thought Cohen. Well, he could get
used to it. After all, he had no choice. He would finish his life as an observer
inside this tyrannosaur's mind. He'd see what the beast saw, hear what it heard,
feel what it felt. He wouldn't be able to control its movements, they had said,
but he would be able to experience every sensation.
The rex was marching forward.
Cohen hoped blood would still look red.
It wouldn't be the same if it wasn't red.
"And what, Ms. Cohen, did your husband say before he left your house
on the night in question?"
"He said he was going out to hunt humans. But I thought he was
making a joke."
"No interpretations, please, Ms. Cohen. Just repeat for the court as
precisely as you remember it, exactly what your husband said."
"He said, `I'm going out to hunt humans.'"
"Thank you, Ms. Cohen. That concludes the Crown's case, my lady."
The needlepoint on the wall of the Honourable Madam Justice Amanda
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