Swanwick, Michael - cherzo with Tyrannosaur

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Scherzo with Tyrannosaur

by Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick, Scherzo with Tyrannosaur

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First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1999

Fictionwise Contemporary

Science Fiction

Hugo Award Nominee

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A keyboardist was playing a selection of Scarlotti's harpsichord sonatas,

brief pieces one to three minutes long, very complex and refined, while the

Hadrosaurus herd streamed by the window. There were hundreds of the brutes,

kicking up dust and honking that lovely flattened near-musical note they make.

It was a spectacular sight.

But the hors d'oeuvres had just arrived: plesiosaur wrapped in kelp,

beluga smeared over sliced maiasaur egg, little slivers of roast dodo on toast,

a dozen delicacies more. So a stampede of common-as-dirt herbivores just

couldn't compete.

Nobody was paying much attention.

Except for the kid. He was glued to the window, staring with an

intensity remarkable even for a boy his age. I figured him to be about ten

years old.

Snagging a glass of champagne from a passing tray, I went over to stand

next to him. "Enjoying yourself, son?"

Without looking up, the kid said, "What do you think spooked them? Was

it a -- ?" Then he saw the wranglers in their jeeps and his face fell. "Oh."

"We had to cheat a little to give the diners something to see." I

gestured with the wine glass past the herd, toward the distant woods. "But

there are plenty of predators lurking out there -- troodons, dromaeosaurs . . .

even old Satan."

He looked up at me in silent question.

"Satan is our nickname for an injured old bull rex that's been hanging

around the station for about a month, raiding our garbage dump."

It was the wrong thing to say. The kid looked devastated. T. rex a

scavenger! Say it ain't so.

"A tyrannosaur is an advantageous hunter," I said, "like a lion. When it

chances upon something convenient, believe you me, it'll attack. And when a

tyrannosaur is hurting, like old Satan is -- well, that's about as savage and

dangerous as any animal can be. It'll kill even when it's not hungry."

That satisfied him. "Good," he said. "I'm glad."

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