A Statue For Father is a humorous science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the February 1959 issue of Satellite Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Buy Jupiter and Other Stories is a 1954 collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov. ...

A theoretical physicist and his son work on the theory of time travel, and experiment with a method of reaching back into time and retrieving objects (as also occurs in "The Ugly Little Boy"). The Ugly Little Boy is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. ...

More by serendipity than design, they manage to retrieve a nest of dinosaur eggs which in due course hatch. They keep on working but are unable to repeat the experiment. In the meantime, the dinosaurs grow and are kept as pets. But when one of them accidentally gets electrocuted, they can't resist tasting the flesh beneath the scales and find that it tastes delicious. Look up Serendipity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Orders & Suborders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Thyreophora Ornithopoda Marginocephalia Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. ...

The two men decide to raise the dinosaurs to be killed for food and open the first of a succesful chain of restaurants dedicated to serving 'dinachicken'.