The Dinosaur Diaries

and Other Tales Across Space and Time

Scott William Carter

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2010 by Scott William Carter

The Dinosaur Diaries

and Other Tales Across Space and Time

By Scott William Carter

With a foreword by

 Kristine Kathryn Rusch

 Flying

Raven

Press

Dedication

For Mom and Dad.  I'm still that kid who spent all those hours in his room dreaming up imaginary worlds.  Now I just write them down.

Acknowledgements

There are many people who have helped me with my short fiction over the years, too many, really, to list here, but there are a few I would like to single out:  Kristine Kathryn Rusch, for both encouragement and unflinching honesty, a rare combination in a mentor, and for being the best example of professionalism a writer could ask for; Dean Wesley Smith, for not being surprised when I came back to writing much more seriously the second time; Stanley Schmidt at Analog, for seeing a spark in that first story he bought from me, and for being willing to work with a relatively new writer on it; Shawna McCarthy at Realms of Fantasy; Sheila Williams at Asimov's; Janet Hutchings at Ellery Queen; Peter Crowther at PS Publishing; Denise Little at Tekno; all the members of the Eugene Writers Workshop from 1991-1994; all the members of the Nexus Writers Workshop from 2002-2003; Kate Wilhelm and other members of her monthly workshop; all the members of the various Oregon Coast Professional Writers Workshops I attended over the years; Douglas Cohen and Warren Lapine at Fantastic Books, who believed in my work and shepherded this collection into print; and of course, my first reader and the love of my life, Heidi Carter.