Escape Pod 141: The Color of a Brontosaurus
Show Notes
Closing Music: “Better” by Jonathan Coulton.
The Color of a Brontosaurus
By Paul E. Martens
There was no doubt that the femur was that of a modern human. Not a proto-human, or some previously unknown dinosaur. Joel and Renee had arrived at the same answer. It was demonstrable, provable. When they finally did release news of the discovery, people might argue about it, but they’d be unable to refute it.
But how did they answer the next question? How did the bone come to be embedded in solid rock millions and millions of years before such a bone could have existed?
It had to be a time traveler. There was no other answer. Or was that just what he wanted to believe?
About the Author
Paul E. Martens
Paul E. Martens was a frequent early contributor to Escape Pod and Pseudopod. His fiction has been collected in L. Ron Hubbard presents Writers of the Future 16, and in the I, Alien anthology edited by Mike Resnick.
About the Narrator
Serah Eley
Serah Eley is a chaos spirit who first appeared in 2013, from the right cerebral hemisphere of a former podcaster named Steve Eley. Best known as the founding editor and host of Escape Pod, with the famous signoff “Have Fun,” Steve realized he was having more fun as Serah and gave her the body for transition and general mayhem. Now much prettier than Steve and at least seventy percent weirder, Serah lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her spouse Sadi and collects stories too fantastic to be fiction. If you ask nicely she may even tell some of them. Very nicely.
