Timothy: An Oral History
ShortStory 3,650 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"Because I could, that’s why. Because the technology was there and if I didn’t do it somebody else would. Because I, perhaps naively, expected the acclaim of a grateful world and quite possibly a Nobel Prize. But chiefly I did it because the science was so beautiful. Have you ever seen a herd of mastodons on the Alaskan tundra?"
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violence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.