"Day of the Hunters" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such Isaac Asimov (c January 2 1920 &ndash April 6 1992 ˈaɪzək ˈæzɪmʌv originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as, was a Russian It was published in the November 1950 issue of Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories, edited by Robert W Lowndes, and based on an earlier story, Big Game, written many years earlier, not published and assumed to have been lost until discovered in the author's collected papers at Boston University.
A group of technicians in a bar meet whom they assume to be a drunken down-and-out. It slowly emerges that he's an ex-university professor who has not only built a time machine but has traveled back to the Mesozoic era to see for himself what happened to cause extinction of the dinosaurs. The Mesozoic Era is one of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic eon.
Slowly getting more drunk and belligerent, he comes out with the story that all the large lizards had already vanished and the only ones left were small dinosaurs armed with guns, who are systematically wiping out their own kind until there are none left to kill.
As in many of his stories, the author was influenced by the then-current fear of nuclear war caused by fission bombs created by the Soviet Union and the USA. A bomb is any of a range of devices that typically rely on the Exothermic Chemical reaction of an Explosive material to produce an extremely The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
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