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Think Like a Dinosaur

James Patrick Kelly

First published June 1995
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series Cold Equations (Godwin)

Synopsis

Space travel has been given to humanity, the kind where it's actually a copy of you arriving at the other end. So someone has to deal with the original.

Notes

First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1995. A reply to Tom Godwin's 'The Cold Equations'.

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1995 HOMer Award Novelette Nominee/Finalist
1996 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Novelette Winner
1996 Hugo Award Best Novelette Winner
1996 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist
1996 Nebula Award Novelette Nominee/Finalist
1996 SF Chronicle Award Novelette Winner
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (28)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1995 Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1995 Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines MAGAZINE 12
May 1996 Year's Best SF HarperPrism Anthology 1
June 1996 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology 380
June 1996 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology 380
August 1996 Year's Best SF HarperPrism / SFBC Anthology 1
September 1996 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press / SFBC Anthology 452
October 1996 The Best New Science Fiction: 9th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology 440
April 1997 Nebula Awards 31 Harvest / Harcourt Brace Anthology 93
April 1997 Nebula Awards 31 Harcourt Brace Anthology 93
August 1997 Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories Golden Gryphon Press Collection 3
July 1999 Nebula Awards 31 Harvest / Harcourt Brace Anthology
November 2002 The Hard SF Renaissance Tor Anthology 239
December 2002 The Hard SF Renaissance Tor / SFBC Anthology 239
September 2003 Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories Golden Gryphon Press Collection 3
October 2003 The Hard SF Renaissance Orb Anthology 239
September 2008 The Savage Humanists Robert J. Sawyer Books Anthology 179
October 2009 Year's Best SF HarperCollins e-books Anthology
August 2010 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction Wesleyan University Press Anthology 698
August 2010 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction Wesleyan University Press Anthology 698
April 2011 The Hard SF Renaissance Orb Anthology 239
June 2011 Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |279
December 2011 Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |279
March 2013 Galaxy's Edge, Issue 1: March 2013 Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick MAGAZINE 59
March 2013 Galaxy's Edge, Issue 1, March 2013 Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick MAGAZINE |110
March 2016 Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly Centipede Press Collection 15
March 2016 Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly Centipede Press Collection 15
May 2018 A Fistful of Dinosaurs Mad Cow Press Anthology |1
May 2018 A Fistful of Dinosaurs Mad Cow Press Anthology |1