We have posted quite a lot about this story already. See here. (Scroll down.)
"Wildcat" is collected in Anderson's Past Times as a time travel story and in Seven Conquests as a war-related story. We have analyzed time travel in this and other works by Anderson but can we get something more out of the war aspect? (Maybe not but we might as well try to find out. I am still recovering from a cold here, hence more posts than usual in the last two days.)
"Wildcat" begins as a men-and-dinosaurs story without immediately confirming that the bellowing brontosaur and the man-plesiosaur encounter on its opening page occur thanks to time travel. See Assaulted Senses.
Several dinosaur stories set in the present include:
ERB's dinosaurs on an island called The Land That Time Forgot during a War;
DC Comics' War That Time Forgot on Dinosaur Island.
Poul Anderson, a comprehensive sf writer, also gives us dinosaurs and connects them with a war but he keeps them in the past.
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It's an obsolete version of dinosaurs, of course -- we've found out more about nthem since. They thought they were reptiles; we know they're more like birds. (Birds -are- dinosaurs, btw.)
Kaor, Paul!
Besides what Stirling wrote above, we also see dinosaurs set more or less in our "present" on Venus in his novel THE SKY PEOPLE..
I also recall that character in "Wildcat" who was reading a Latin translation of Marcus Aurelius' MEDITATIONS.
Ad astra! Sean
Kaor, Paul!
I should have mentioned that I suspect Stirling took the title of his book from Anderson's Maurai story "The Sky People."
Ad astra! Sean
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