Considering Atlantosaurus is a junior synonym of Apatosaurus, I imagine it instead of just eating Brontosaurus or other sauropods, it absorbs them like Cell
I love that "The Death of the Moon" effectively pre-empted both that Far Side cartoon with the T. rex eating a flying saucer, & that "Scary Door" episode of Futurama. "in the end, it was not the guns or the bombs that defeated the aliens, but the humblest of earth's creatures - the Tyrannosaurus rex" There are tons of these weird tales out there. A. Merritt's "The Moon Pool" is a favourite, & F. Van Wyck Mason's "Phalanxes of Atlans" has some cool imagery.
A gun for a dinosaur 1956 or A sound of Thunder 1952 are probably among my favorites. I have a thing for dinosaur hunting safari stories. Also The Fog Horn 1952 is pretty good too.
I think it would have been poetic in "the death of the moon" of when bug boy was dying and mourning the loss of his species, he looks up as sees the asteroid falling that kills the dinosaurs and finds a small peace in knowing it was inevitable (and that the damned Trex's family will die too). And he breaks the 4th wall and says, "Wow! This truly was an Amazing Story!"
A story without an end really resonated with me. It's a concept I find myself thinking about alot. What comes after us and what will they think of us if there is something left to discover
Ironically, Ellison's slumbering nightmare thing died horribly somewhere around 2012, inexorably poisoned to death by the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill along with an awful lot of the rest of the gulf biome. Took a while but the dinosaurs got their revenge.
'A sound of thunder' and 'Tyrannosaurus Rex' from Ray Bradbury are interesting short stories, although the latter is more of a film-making and human condition type of funny story.
Excellent as always! I'm a huge fan of kaiju / giant monster fiction, especially the overlooked and obscure stuff, and your dinosaur short story videos have been immensely eye-opening. About THE DREAM A NIGHTMARE DREAMS: I believe this was Harlan Ellison's attempt to combined a dinosaur extinction theory with Lovecraftian cosmic horror as the Eyeless Horror feels like its one of The Great Old Ones or Elder Gods, considering its overwhelming powers via dreams, the hint of incoming Apocalyptic fate, the its incredible size seen through the crater it left behind.
My favourite aspect of stories like this, or one like man after man where the attitude of “we’lI always be here” is very common, is that a character will muse about something and then time will rhetorically pass and not only has that idea failed but was also likely forgotten
I liked "The Dream a Nightmare Dreams". You could mash it together with the "plot" of the Topps "Dinosaurs Attack" cards and the short story would make a decent backstory for the card collection. In particular, the character that fans sometimes call "Dinosaur Satan" can easily be interpreted as an incarnation of the entity from the short story, and the card "Saurian Secrets" even hints at a contingent of dinosaurs that are trying to mentally fight against it, again like in the short story.
Good stuff! I'd heard of "The Death of the Moon" before, but the others were new to me. Great wealth of material to be mined, here, and "Dinosaur Fantastic" is a hoot.
The Latest Thing from "A Story Without An End" sounds a lot like The Elder Things from H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" while The Eyeless Horror from "The Dream A Nightmare Dreams" is literally IT from Stephen King's "IT".
"Death of the Moon" is definitely the story I liked the most. "The Story that never ends" just feels like prime r/im14andthisisdeep content to me. "What if humanity isn't the peak of creation?" doesn't hit as hard in the 21st century as in the 20th. "When you wish upon a star" is just a kid getting his wishes fulfilled with no bad repercussions or moral lesson (unless he actually feels any guilt and remorse over Alan's death), and instead of through dinosaurs the wishes could also be fulfilled by anything else. And the final story is just "what if aliens killed the dinosaurs?" I can respect the Death of the Moon story much more for having the aliens' encounter with dinosaurs actually fail. As for more dinosaur short stories, you should check out Brian Aldiss' "Poor Little Warrior".
"The Story that never ends" doesn't quite feel like that to me, it feels more like a lesson about how humans shouldn't be so complacent in the idea that the world is made for us and that we're entitled to it. We're just another animal in the grand story of evolution.
The art of writing isn't just in coming up with an original script, it's how the idea is executed. There's nothing wrong with a different take on a classic idea.
Pretty cool all 4 stories, I think my favorite has to be the third one tho, simply because of how just utterly weird it is, perfect for the publication it came from. I adore the sheer insanity of a lot of those old pulps.
The Ellison one was strange, but it was too abstract for me to enjoy (it somehow reminded me of the Darling in the Franxx anime, which has a similarity, also I didn't think the last part of it was good). But A story without an end was the most interesting, because it's an early speculative evolution work.
Captain Raptor is a old sci fi dinosaur comic following a crew of dinosaurs that go through space and defeat alien monsters. I think you would like it.
I sure love these videos and will never stop watching them,so that's great Also I sure do love some science fiction dino short stories Also I wish y'all are having a good day
Off-topic for a minute, there's a pair of science-fiction dinosaur novels that would be good for a video...DINOSAUR PLANET and DINOSAUR PLANET SURVIVORS by Anne McCaffrey. These two novels were later published as a two-in-one novel titled THE MYSTERY OF IRETA. i think this duology was supposed to originally supposed to be a trilogy, but for some reason, this never came to pass.
The last short story sounds a little bit more familiar, of the film that I saw as a kid. One in particular is "Rebirth of Mothra 3", When "King Ghidorah" (The Three-Headed Dragon) invade earth years ago, and kill off the Dinosaurs. Well "Mothra" (The Giant Moth) has to go travel back in time to save the dinosaurs from King Ghidorah. I know that sounds odd but you really need to see it. th-cam.com/video/iudoOXwVY54/w-d-xo.html
Ellison's story is a simple Lovecraft rip-off. Slumbering eldritch horror at the bottom of the sea plaguing the dreams of mankind, yadda, yadda, not an original concept. The time travel in Rebirth gives me a right proper paradox headache, but the designs for both King Ghidorah and both forms of Mothra are pretty cool, especially Armored Mothra. Arguably the best film in the trilogy, although that isn't a hard bar to climb over.
I think that first story would have been better if it had stopped with the trilobites, the message can be understood easily even at that point, the rest is overkill.
A Story Without An End really is a story of all time, it paints women as idiotic while men as wise, and it includes a little bit of hatred for religion, truly a Redditor story.
06:30 this also shows that the author sees women as less inteligent and less capable of phylosophical thought as in every era it was a male who was wandering.
Maybe a hot take but I really dislike the story without an end, the idea that there is such thing as a “ superior life form” is very ironic for a story trying to say that us humans have to big a ego.
You've probably caught a variant of the memetic plague that increases sales on comic books that include (among other things) a dinosaur on the cover. DC Comics used to have an editorial policy limiting how many of their books each month could feature one, as well as limits on gorillas/monkeys, motorcycles, and excessive use of the color purple, all of which were similarly effective at driving sales. They were afraid people would build up an immunity to the effect over time and wanted to reserve it for when they were having a bad quarter, at which point they could haul out the purple dinosaur versus gorilla biker gang covers and get back in the black.
What was your favorite dinosaur short story?
mine's The dream a Nightmare dreams
Either Our World Has No End or Death of the Moon
I really enjoyed “Our World Has No End”
A story without an end was really good.
A river runs through it
"A Wish Upon A Star" feels like something of a personal experience I've had when I was younger.
idk why but the idea of trilobites being all philosophical is hilarious
Same
my ass woulda stayed in the primordial soup if i knew there was gonna be days like this
Considering Atlantosaurus is a junior synonym of Apatosaurus, I imagine it instead of just eating Brontosaurus or other sauropods, it absorbs them like Cell
I love that "The Death of the Moon" effectively pre-empted both that Far Side cartoon with the T. rex eating a flying saucer, & that "Scary Door" episode of Futurama. "in the end, it was not the guns or the bombs that defeated the aliens, but the humblest of earth's creatures - the Tyrannosaurus rex"
There are tons of these weird tales out there. A. Merritt's "The Moon Pool" is a favourite, & F. Van Wyck Mason's "Phalanxes of Atlans" has some cool imagery.
Those bugs shot the dinosaur and caused the attack they ironically hoped to avoid, great idea
really thought the twist at the end of "death of the moon" was the ship would crash and be the "meteor" that killed the dinosaurs! really cool stories
This was one of your best vids. I love it when hyper-obscure sci-fi short stories are brought to the spotlight like this.
A gun for a dinosaur 1956 or A sound of Thunder 1952 are probably among my favorites. I have a thing for dinosaur hunting safari stories. Also The Fog Horn 1952 is pretty good too.
I think it would have been poetic in "the death of the moon" of when bug boy was dying and mourning the loss of his species, he looks up as sees the asteroid falling that kills the dinosaurs and finds a small peace in knowing it was inevitable (and that the damned Trex's family will die too).
And he breaks the 4th wall and says, "Wow! This truly was an Amazing Story!"
The fact that that first story is just that horseshoe crab meme hit me like a truck
A story without an end really resonated with me. It's a concept I find myself thinking about alot. What comes after us and what will they think of us if there is something left to discover
Hands down my favorite one is definitely "the lady of sauropods" it is just so damn good imo
Ironically, Ellison's slumbering nightmare thing died horribly somewhere around 2012, inexorably poisoned to death by the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill along with an awful lot of the rest of the gulf biome. Took a while but the dinosaurs got their revenge.
Is this how supposedly oil was made of dinosaurs? Because that is completely wrong.
They were playing the long game.
The last story sounds like the most ridiculous, strangest weirdest dinosaur extinction theory.
Ellison's good at being ridiculous, although I don't think he intends to be. Grossly overrated writer IMO.
'A sound of thunder' and 'Tyrannosaurus Rex' from Ray Bradbury are interesting short stories, although the latter is more of a film-making and human condition type of funny story.
Death of the Moon has such an interesting story.
Excellent as always! I'm a huge fan of kaiju / giant monster fiction, especially the overlooked and obscure stuff, and your dinosaur short story videos have been immensely eye-opening. About THE DREAM A NIGHTMARE DREAMS: I believe this was Harlan Ellison's attempt to combined a dinosaur extinction theory with Lovecraftian cosmic horror as the Eyeless Horror feels like its one of The Great Old Ones or Elder Gods, considering its overwhelming powers via dreams, the hint of incoming Apocalyptic fate, the its incredible size seen through the crater it left behind.
My favourite aspect of stories like this, or one like man after man where the attitude of “we’lI always be here” is very common, is that a character will muse about something and then time will rhetorically pass and not only has that idea failed but was also likely forgotten
I liked "The Dream a Nightmare Dreams". You could mash it together with the "plot" of the Topps "Dinosaurs Attack" cards and the short story would make a decent backstory for the card collection. In particular, the character that fans sometimes call "Dinosaur Satan" can easily be interpreted as an incarnation of the entity from the short story, and the card "Saurian Secrets" even hints at a contingent of dinosaurs that are trying to mentally fight against it, again like in the short story.
Good stuff! I'd heard of "The Death of the Moon" before, but the others were new to me. Great wealth of material to be mined, here, and "Dinosaur Fantastic" is a hoot.
The Latest Thing from "A Story Without An End" sounds a lot like The Elder Things from H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" while The Eyeless Horror from "The Dream A Nightmare Dreams" is literally IT from Stephen King's "IT".
We do need more Dinosaur in everythin'...
Comics, Movies, Books and Games.
Wholeheartedly agree with this statement
Amen brother
"Death of the Moon" is definitely the story I liked the most.
"The Story that never ends" just feels like prime r/im14andthisisdeep content to me. "What if humanity isn't the peak of creation?" doesn't hit as hard in the 21st century as in the 20th.
"When you wish upon a star" is just a kid getting his wishes fulfilled with no bad repercussions or moral lesson (unless he actually feels any guilt and remorse over Alan's death), and instead of through dinosaurs the wishes could also be fulfilled by anything else.
And the final story is just "what if aliens killed the dinosaurs?"
I can respect the Death of the Moon story much more for having the aliens' encounter with dinosaurs actually fail.
As for more dinosaur short stories, you should check out Brian Aldiss' "Poor Little Warrior".
"The Story that never ends" doesn't quite feel like that to me, it feels more like a lesson about how humans shouldn't be so complacent in the idea that the world is made for us and that we're entitled to it. We're just another animal in the grand story of evolution.
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I think your description of the final story is a little reductionist...It has some pretty cool fantastical elements, it's very Lovecraft-ish.
The art of writing isn't just in coming up with an original script, it's how the idea is executed. There's nothing wrong with a different take on a classic idea.
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Amazing Stories covers are amazing. If I ever publish a book, I'd want it to have a cover in the level of Amazing Stories.
They really are! They're honestly one of, if not, the best examples of sci fi art
The dream one is real neat.
Cosmic horror.
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Pretty cool all 4 stories, I think my favorite has to be the third one tho, simply because of how just utterly weird it is, perfect for the publication it came from. I adore the sheer insanity of a lot of those old pulps.
For real. Pulp fiction was definitely crazy, but very entertaining and thrilling. Wish we had more of that today.
The Ellison one was strange, but it was too abstract for me to enjoy (it somehow reminded me of the Darling in the Franxx anime, which has a similarity, also I didn't think the last part of it was good). But A story without an end was the most interesting, because it's an early speculative evolution work.
The last one is straight out of the Cthulhu mythos.
ayoooo! Definitely dinosaurs fighting bugs is something I would like to see in live action.
wish apon a star is my favorite one. i always wishes that my childhood school being invade by raptors and killing all my bullies
Captain Raptor is a old sci fi dinosaur comic following a crew of dinosaurs that go through space and defeat alien monsters. I think you would like it.
I sure love these videos and will never stop watching them,so that's great
Also I sure do love some science fiction dino short stories
Also I wish y'all are having a good day
18:19 I was really hoping the dad would be found in the tar pit a million years into the future by another species
1:48 Feels like something from a Douglas Adams story
Off-topic for a minute, there's a pair of science-fiction dinosaur novels that would be good for a video...DINOSAUR PLANET and DINOSAUR PLANET SURVIVORS by Anne McCaffrey. These two novels were later published as a two-in-one novel titled THE MYSTERY OF IRETA. i think this duology was supposed to originally supposed to be a trilogy, but for some reason, this never came to pass.
19:24, It's not exactly the same, but this question of what's real and what's fantasy reminded me of the movie "Life of Pi"
The Latest Thing sounds great!
i wonder if there was a adaption film
Please do more videos! and I loved the old dinosaur art! 👍👍
The last short story sounds a little bit more familiar, of the film that I saw as a kid. One in particular is "Rebirth of Mothra 3", When "King Ghidorah" (The Three-Headed Dragon) invade earth years ago, and kill off the Dinosaurs. Well "Mothra" (The Giant Moth) has to go travel back in time to save the dinosaurs from King Ghidorah. I know that sounds odd but you really need to see it. th-cam.com/video/iudoOXwVY54/w-d-xo.html
Ellison's story is a simple Lovecraft rip-off. Slumbering eldritch horror at the bottom of the sea plaguing the dreams of mankind, yadda, yadda, not an original concept.
The time travel in Rebirth gives me a right proper paradox headache, but the designs for both King Ghidorah and both forms of Mothra are pretty cool, especially Armored Mothra. Arguably the best film in the trilogy, although that isn't a hard bar to climb over.
Fascinating- love the first one best o all
That last one.... Bloodborne with Dinosaurs... Mmmmm ideas.
I wonder what the asteroid hitting Earth would've looked like from the moon.
Why hasn't Harlan Ellison got into acting sooner? He seemed perfect for it.
The first one was just the "Wife bad" boomer meme. xD
Thanks for the work you do man! ✨
I love your videos please make more ❤
I think that first story would have been better if it had stopped with the trilobites, the message can be understood easily even at that point, the rest is overkill.
I'm curious if you will ever do any reviews on dinosaur stories found on Amazon Kindle.
How much of those are trashy erotica, though?
@@RickRaptor105 my goal is to endure enough cringe to handle even the idea of considering covering those books in a video
Could you maybe cover some of Joe R. Lansdale's work? some of his stories feature dinosaurs especially ones that based on Edgar Rice Burrows works.
I'll look into it!
Would love more of these!
I would like to call the male trilobite "Adam" and the female "Eve".
The actual theme of "A story without an end" is that women have no imagination.
Women ☕
A Story Without An End really is a story of all time, it paints women as idiotic while men as wise, and it includes a little bit of hatred for religion, truly a Redditor story.
Time has ticked on before us, it ticks with us, it will tick long after.
06:30 this also shows that the author sees women as less inteligent and less capable of phylosophical thought as in every era it was a male who was wandering.
harlan ellison mentioned RAHHHHHHH!!!
Maybe a hot take but I really dislike the story without an end, the idea that there is such thing as a “ superior life form” is very ironic for a story trying to say that us humans have to big a ego.
Cool!
Cthulhu killed the Dinosaurs??
Dude, this has potential to be a Netflix anthology
Have you read The Monster of Lake LaMetrie?
A few weeks ago he read it and made a video on it!
Since you like short stories with prehistoric life I think you should check out Tales of Kaimere.
Sounds cool, I'll check it out!
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I should write a dino story just to appear on your channel
Excellent! More Dino fiction !
Why does my brain always tells me to leave a comment on every video with "random dinosaur" in the tittle?
You've probably caught a variant of the memetic plague that increases sales on comic books that include (among other things) a dinosaur on the cover. DC Comics used to have an editorial policy limiting how many of their books each month could feature one, as well as limits on gorillas/monkeys, motorcycles, and excessive use of the color purple, all of which were similarly effective at driving sales. They were afraid people would build up an immunity to the effect over time and wanted to reserve it for when they were having a bad quarter, at which point they could haul out the purple dinosaur versus gorilla biker gang covers and get back in the black.
love you
What movies are each of these clips from?
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Yo increase the volume of your videos, the ads are so much louder.
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Never liked Allison. His story sounds like a big fat Lovecraft rip off.