1960s short story — time traveling dinosaur hunter gets eaten by his prey’s ticks and fleas
I am trying to find a short story I read many years ago from an anthology. I remember hunters who time traveled to kill dinosaurs. They were successful in that they did go back in time with big guns and brought down something big, but they didn't anticipate what happened next: giant fleas and ticks leaping off their dead hosts, looking for another meal and finding only juicy warm-blooded mammals nearby. Does anybody remember this story? It was from around the 60s, I think.
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I am trying to find a short story I read many years ago from an anthology. I remember hunters who time traveled to kill dinosaurs. They were successful in that they did go back in time with big guns and brought down something big, but they didn't anticipate what happened next: giant fleas and ticks leaping off their dead hosts, looking for another meal and finding only juicy warm-blooded mammals nearby. Does anybody remember this story? It was from around the 60s, I think.
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I am trying to find a short story I read many years ago from an anthology. I remember hunters who time traveled to kill dinosaurs. They were successful in that they did go back in time with big guns and brought down something big, but they didn't anticipate what happened next: giant fleas and ticks leaping off their dead hosts, looking for another meal and finding only juicy warm-blooded mammals nearby. Does anybody remember this story? It was from around the 60s, I think.
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I am trying to find a short story I read many years ago from an anthology. I remember hunters who time traveled to kill dinosaurs. They were successful in that they did go back in time with big guns and brought down something big, but they didn't anticipate what happened next: giant fleas and ticks leaping off their dead hosts, looking for another meal and finding only juicy warm-blooded mammals nearby. Does anybody remember this story? It was from around the 60s, I think.
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It's Poor Little Warrior!, by Brian W Aldiss.
Claude Ford shoots the brontosaurus without the slightest difficulty, but forgets that when it died its parasites would leave it, and they would be far more dangerous. They pick his carcass loving clean.
I read it first in Aldiss' collection Penguin Science Fiction, but don't doubt it's been anthologised many times since. It appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958.
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It's Poor Little Warrior!, by Brian W Aldiss.
Claude Ford shoots the brontosaurus without the slightest difficulty, but forgets that when it died its parasites would leave it, and they would be far more dangerous. They pick his carcass loving clean.
I read it first in Aldiss' collection Penguin Science Fiction, but don't doubt it's been anthologised many times since. It appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958.
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It's Poor Little Warrior!, by Brian W Aldiss.
Claude Ford shoots the brontosaurus without the slightest difficulty, but forgets that when it died its parasites would leave it, and they would be far more dangerous. They pick his carcass loving clean.
I read it first in Aldiss' collection Penguin Science Fiction, but don't doubt it's been anthologised many times since. It appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958.
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It's Poor Little Warrior!, by Brian W Aldiss.
Claude Ford shoots the brontosaurus without the slightest difficulty, but forgets that when it died its parasites would leave it, and they would be far more dangerous. They pick his carcass loving clean.
I read it first in Aldiss' collection Penguin Science Fiction, but don't doubt it's been anthologised many times since. It appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958.
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It's Poor Little Warrior!, by Brian W Aldiss.
Claude Ford shoots the brontosaurus without the slightest difficulty, but forgets that when it died its parasites would leave it, and they would be far more dangerous. They pick his carcass loving clean.
I read it first in Aldiss' collection Penguin Science Fiction, but don't doubt it's been anthologised many times since. It appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958.
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