Changes: Hatching Season

"Hatching Season"
Author	Harry Turtledove, as Eric G. Iverson
First Appearance	Analog Magazine
Genre(s)	Science fiction
Publication date	December, 1985

Revision as of 09:28, 4 August 2020

"Hatching Season" is a time travel science fiction short story by Harry Turtledove (writing as Eric Iverson), Analog 12/85, reprinted in Dinosaurs!, edited by Jack Dann, Ace 1990, and Dinosaurs, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Niagara, 1996.

Focusing on time-traveling paleontologist Paula Shaffer and her field study of hadrosaur hatching season in the Cretaceous Period. After imprinting herself on a newly hatched hadrosaur, Paula finds herself running for her life from predatory gorgosaurs. After a harrowing night lost in the woods, Paula and her hadrosaur are able to make their way back to the hatching grounds, and Paula returns home.

Literary Critique

"Hatching Season" is an entertaining, if conventional, story, featuring a thrilling chase while engaging (very lightly) some of the theories about dinosaur and dinosaur behavior.

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-'''"Hatching Season"''' is a short story by [[Harry Turtledove]] (writing as [[Eric Iverson]]), ''[[Analog]]'' 12/85, reprinted in
+}}'''"Hatching Season"''' is a [[Time travel (Hatching Season)|time travel]] [[science fiction]] short story by [[Harry Turtledove]] (writing as [[Eric Iverson]]), ''Analog'' 12/85, reprinted in ''Dinosaurs!'', edited by Jack Dann, Ace 1990, and ''Dinosaurs'', edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Niagara, 1996.
-''Dinosaurs!'', edited by Jack Dann, Ace 1990.
-Focusing on time-traveling paleontologist [[Paula Shaffer]] and her field study of [[hadrosaur]] hatching season. After imprinting herself on a newly hatched hadrosaur, Paula finds herself running for her life from predatory [[gorgosaur]]s. After a harrowing night lost in the woods, Paula and her hadrosaur are able to make their way back to the hatching grounds, and Paula returns home.
+Focusing on time-traveling paleontologist [[Paula Shaffer]] and her field study of [[Hadrosaur (Hatching Season)|hadrosaur]] hatching season in the [[Cretaceous (Hatching Season)|Cretaceous Period]]. After imprinting herself on a newly hatched hadrosaur, Paula finds herself running for her life from predatory [[Gorgosaurus (Hatching Season)|gorgosaurs]]. After a harrowing night lost in the woods, Paula and her hadrosaur are able to make their way back to the hatching grounds, and Paula returns home.
 ==Literary Critique==
 "Hatching Season" is an entertaining, if conventional, story, featuring a thrilling chase while engaging (very lightly) some of the theories about dinosaur and dinosaur behavior.
+==See also==
+*"[[Lure]]," another story about using [[Time travel (Lure)|time travel]] for paleontology. Turtledove has not specified whether the stories are connected.
+{{Hatching Season}}
 [[Category:Hatching Season|*]]
+[[Category:Iverson Stories]]
 [[Category:Short Stories]]
 [[Category:1985 Works]]
 [[Category:Works Set in Prehistory]]
 [[Category:Works Set in the United States]]
+[[Category:Dinosaur Stories]]
 [[Category:Time-Travel Stories]]
 [[Category:Short Stories First Published in Analog]]
-[[Category:Iverson Stories]]
+[[Category:Short Stories That Have Not Been Collected]]