"If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" is a short story by American writer Rachel Swirsky.
As a paleontologist lies in a coma, his fiancée tells him how things would be different if he were a Tyrannosaurus rex.
[2] At Kirkus Reviews, critic Ana Grilo describes it as "beautiful", "powerful", and "intense", and "almost like a piece of poetry", but questions whether it can truly be considered speculative fiction.
[3] The story was at the center of the Sad Puppies controversy; it was held up as an example of "message fiction" by its detractors, symptomatic of a clique of social justice ideologues who they said were controlling the awards.
[4] It was strongly criticized by Sad Puppies-involved[5][6] authors such as John C. Wright[7] and Sarah Hoyt.