Which Came First?

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It’s hard to run for your life carrying an egg as big as a watermelon. An egg is awkward to carry when it’s over a foot long, delicate, you’re out of breath, and your side hurts. And it’s umpteen-ton mother is thundering along after you. You tend to look over your shoulder a lot and trip on roots and vines and maybe scream now and again.

It was not the only dinosaur egg in the world—not that world, anyway— but if I could get a few hundred yards farther and nothing happened to the time machine, it would be. Sixty-five to eighty million years from now. The dinosaur egg, that is.

They wanted a dinosaur and they knew they weren’t going to get any dinosaur anyone would pay to see into the TDC—Temporal Displacement Container, as they flat out refused to called it a “time machine.” So some bright physics weenie figured out the egg came first, and it was a lot more portable. Two or three eggs would be even better.

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