Dinosaurs And A Dirigible

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All five of David Drake&s time travel stories collected for in one volume with a new introduction by the author

Includes:: " King Tyrant Lizard" " Calibration Run" " Time Safari" " Boundary Layer" & " Travellers" Henry Vickers&s job is to keep clients safe from the dinosaurs they&re hunting That&s the easy part The hard part is to keep the clients safe from themselves & each other Men with enough money to go into the past to hunt the largest land animals of all time are powerful & self-willed Some make an effort to act like decent human beings but more are selfish stupid sadistic—or all three together The few women are likely to be worse Vickers doesn&t expect rich people to understand the dangers of where they are & what they&re doing; he doesn&t expect them to be competent with the powerful rifles they carry; & he particularly doesn&t expect them to be reasonable He treats his clients& behavior as he does the rain & the baking heat—the cost of having a life he loves & which he couldn&t afford in any other way But no matter how detached Vickers tries to be eventually there are moral questions that he can&t ignore & when Henry Vickers starts to behave like a human being instead of a hunting guide things get really dangerous & in a complete change of pace " Travellers" An airship is crossing the United States in 1897 in search of the weird & the wonderful The two teenagers aboard know that the airship&s captain is a great scientist & inventor—but they don&t know how much more he is also