Dinosaur Tales

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Dinosaur Tales
cover from the first edition
Author	Ray Bradbury
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Bantam Books
Publication date	1983
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	144
ISBN	0-553-01484-6
OCLC	9524799
LC Class	PZ7.B717 Di 1983

Dinosaur Tales is a 1983 short story collection by Ray Bradbury. Several of the stories are original to this collection. Other stories were first published in Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post magazines. The collection contains over 60 pages of illustrations by Gahan Wilson, William Stout, Steranko, Moebius, Overton Loyd, Kenneth Smith and David Wiesner.

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Foreword by Ray Harryhausen (1983)
Introduction by Ray Bradbury (1983)
"Besides A Dinosaur, Whatta Ya Wanna Be When You Grow Up?" (1983)
"A Sound of Thunder" (1952)
"Lo, the Dear, Daft Dinosaurs!" (1980)
"The Fog Horn" (1951)
"What If I Said: The Dinosaur's Not Dead?" (1983)
"Tyrannosaurus Rex" (1962)
Contributors

Editions

ISBN 0-553-24614-3 (paperback, 1984) cover by Sanjulián

Reception

Dave Pringle reviewed Dinosaur Tales for Imagine magazine, and stated that "This book might make an appropriate Christmas present for someone young and simple."^[1]

Reviews

Review by Chris Henderson (1983) in Dragon Magazine , November 1983^[2]
Review by W. Paul Ganley (1983) in Fantasy Mongers 7, 1983
Review by Andrew Andrews (1984) in Science Fiction Review , Spring 1984
Review by John DiPrete (1985) in Science Fiction Review , Spring 1985

References

↑ Pringle, Dave (December 1983). "Book Review". Imagine (review) (9). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd.: 35.
↑ "Title: Dinosaur Tales".

Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition". Archived from the original on January 20, 2008. Retrieved December 12, 2007.

External links

Dinosaur Tales title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Dinosaur Tales publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Bibliography (Short fiction)
Novels	The Martian Chronicles (1950) Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Dandelion Wine (1957) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) The Halloween Tree (1972) Death Is a Lonely Business (1985) A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990) Green Shadows, White Whale (1992) From the Dust Returned (2001) Let's All Kill Constance (2002) Farewell Summer (2006)
Short stories	"Hollerbochen's Dilemma" (1938) "The Scythe" (1943) "I, Rocket" (1944) "The Lake" (1944) "Frost and Fire" (1946) "The Million Year Picnic" (1946) "The Small Assassin" (1946) "I See You Never" (1947) "Fever Dream" (1948) "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" (1948) "The Long Years" (1948) "Mars Is Heaven!" (1948) "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" (1949) "The Exiles" (1949) "Marionettes, Inc." (1949) "The Long Rain" (1950) "The Rocket" (1950) "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950) "The Veldt" (1950) "Ylla" (1950) "Embroidery" (1951) "The Fog Horn" (1951) "Here There Be Tygers" (1951) "The Pedestrian" (1951) "The April Witch" (1952) "A Sound of Thunder" (1952) "The Wilderness" (1952) "The Flying Machine" (1953) "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind" (1953) "The Meadow" (1953) "The Murderer" (1953) "Sun and Shadow" (1953) "All Summer in a Day" (1954) "The Dragon" (1955) "The Aqueduct" (1979) "Banshee" (1984) "The Toynbee Convector" (1984) "Is That You, Herb?" (2003)
Collections	Dark Carnival (1947) The Illustrated Man (1951) The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953) The October Country (1955) A Medicine for Melancholy (1959) The Day It Rained Forever (1959) The Small Assassin (1962) R Is for Rocket (1962) The Machineries of Joy (1964) The Vintage Bradbury (1965) S Is for Space (1966) Twice 22 (1966) I Sing the Body Electric! (1969) Ray Bradbury (1975) Long After Midnight (1976) The Fog Horn & Other Stories (1979) The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980) The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980) The Fog Horn and Other Stories (1980) Dinosaur Tales (1983) A Memory of Murder (1984) The Toynbee Convector (1988) Classic Stories 1 (1990) Classic Stories 2 (1990) The Parrot Who Met Papa (1991) Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (1991) Quicker Than the Eye (1996) Driving Blind (1997) Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (2001) One More for the Road (2002) Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003) The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (2004) A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005) The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007) Summer Morning, Summer Night (2007) A Pleasure to Burn (2010) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury (2011, 2014)
Plays	The Meadow (1947) The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays (1972) Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975) The Martian Chronicles (1986) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1986) Fahrenheit 451 (1986) Dandelion Wine (1988) The Veldt (1988)
Adaptations	It Came from Outer Space (1953) The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) Moby Dick (1956 screenplay) "I Sing the Body Electric" (1962) The Autumn People (1965) Tomorrow Midnight (1966) Fahrenheit 451 (1966) The Picasso Summer (1969) The Illustrated Man (1969) The Martian Chronicles (1980 miniseries) The Electric Grandmother (1982) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Bradbury 13 (radio series, 1983–84) Fahrenheit 451 (1984) "The Burning Man" (1985) The Veldt (1987) The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV series, 1985–86, 1988-1992) The Halloween Tree (1993) Dandelion Wine (1997) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998) A Sound of Thunder (2005) Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis (2008) The Whispers (2015) Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Miscellaneous	Futuria Fantasia (1939–1940) The Mummies of Guanajuato (1978) Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) It Came from Outer Space (2003 book)
Characters	Guy Montag
Related	Bettina F. Bradbury (daughter) Spaceship Earth Ray Bradbury Center Bradbury Landing Ray Bradbury Award Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury Dandelion crater "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes"

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Dinosaur Tales

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Editions

Reception

Reviews

References

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