Uphill Climb

Uphill Climb

Infobox short story
name = Uphill Climb
author = Robert J. Sawyer
language = English
genre = Science fiction
published_in = Amazing Stories
publication_type = Magazine
pub_date = March 1987

Uphill Climb is a 1987 short story written by Canadian Science Fiction Author Robert J. Sawyer. It is notable for being the first print appearance of the Quintaglios, a species of sentient dwarf tyrannosaurs, which would later star in his critically acclaimed Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy. It was later reprinted in "Iterations", an anthology of short stories written by Robert J. Sawyer. [http://www.sfwriter.com/tcit.htm SF Writer]

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ee Also

*Robert J. Sawyer
*Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy


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