Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur

By: Ian McDonald

Published by Tor Publishing Group, 2026-02-03

<p><b><i>How to Train Your Dragon</i> meets <i>Mad Max </i>in this </b><b>story of an orphan in a fractured Southwest who just wants to ride a dinosaur under the lights.</b><br><br><i>Come one, come all to the dinosaur rodeo!</i><br><br>Tif Tamim wants nothing more than to be a dinosaur buckaroo. An orphan in search of a place to rest his head and a job to weigh down his pockets, Tif has bounced from circus to circus, yearning for a chance to ride a prehistoric beauty under the sparkling lights of a big-top.<br><br>To become a buckaroo, Tif needs to learn the tools of the trade, yet few dino maestros want to take a scrawny nobody from nowhere under their wing. But when Tif frees a dino from an abusive owner and braves the roving gangs of the formerly-American west to bring the dino to safety, he catches someone’s eye. And boy, how those eyes dazzle Tif from the back of a bucking carnotaur.</p>