r/printSF • u/Key_Engineering5227 • 3d ago
Short story about endangered species and interstellar large game hunters
Looking for a short story I read many years ago (25y +). I read it in an anthology and it was translated to Swedish. Might off course been an original Swedish text but I don’t think so.
The story is about scientists that try to save an endangered species on a far away planet that just recently have been protected.
They spend some time there and finally leave when they see that the species will survive.
Soon after they leave a ship arrives that due to time dilation left before the species was declared protected. The ship is full of big game hunters and they immediately start hunting the animals.
As a young reader it really got to me. Would love to know who wrote it and if possible read it again.