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====================== Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick Michael Swanwick, Scherzo with Tyrannosaur ====================== Copyright (c)1999 Michael Swanwick First published in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine, July 1999 Fictionwise Contemporary Science Fiction Hugo Award Nominee NOTICE: This work is copyrighted. It is licensed only for use by the purchaser. If you did not purchase this ebook directly from F then you are in violation of copyright law and are subject to severe fines. Please visit to purchase a legal copy. F offers a reward for information leading to the conviction of copyright violators of Fictionwise ebooks. A keyboardist was playing a selection of Scarlottis harpsichord sonatas, brief pieces one to three minutes long, very complex and refined, while the Hadrosaurus herd streamed by the window. There were hundreds of the brutes, kicking up dust and honking that lovely flattened near-musical note they make. It was a spectacular sight. But the hors doeuvres had just arrived: plesiosaur wrapped in kelp, beluga smeared over sliced maiasaur egg, little slivers of roast dodo on toast, a dozen delicacies more. So a stampede of common-as-dirt herbivores just couldnt compete. Nobody was paying much attention. Except for the kid. He was glued to the window, staring with an intensity remarkable even for a boy his age. I figured him to be about ten years old. Snagging a glass of champagne from a passing tray, I went over to stand next to him. Enjoying yourself, son? Without looking up, the kid said, What do you think spooked them? Was it a -- ? Then he saw the wranglers in their jeeps and his face fell. Oh. We had to cheat a little to give the diners something to see. I gestured with the wine glass past the herd, toward the distant woods. But there are plenty of predators lurking out there -- troodons, dromaeosaurs . . . even old Satan.