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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://tamaranth.blogspot.com/2009/08... (  ) tamaranth | Aug 22, 2009 |  A light read, probably worth it if you're a sucker for time travel and dinosaurs. (  ) vamshi | Jul 14, 2009 | It is pretty clear than Mr. Swanwick likes his dinosaurs. When a man brings an accomplished paleontologist a puzzle and leaves him a present, he can't really say no to the mystery man. Half the kids on the planet probably wouldn't hesitate, either. Aliens have provided time travel - want to do some real life dinosaur research? It certainly doesn't stay that simple, given our protagonist, his lovers and friends and grad students and boss can all meet themselves. An interesting book with a couple of really interesting dinosaur extinction ideas thrown in. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/11... (  )1  bluetyson | Nov 25, 2008 | It is pretty clear than Mr. Swanwick likes his dinosaurs. When a man brings an accomplished paleontologist a puzzle and leaves him a present, he can't really say no to the mystery man. Half the kids on the planet probably wouldn't hesitate, either. Aliens have provided time travel - want to do some real life dinosaur research? It certainly doesn't stay that simple, given our protagonist, his lovers and friends and grad students and boss can all meet themselves. An interesting book with a couple of really interesting dinosaur extinction ideas thrown in. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/11... ( ) bluetyson | Nov 25, 2008 | It is pretty clear than Mr. Swanwick likes his dinosaurs. When a man brings an accomplished paleontologist a puzzle and leaves him a present, he can't really say no to the mystery man. Half the kids on the planet probably wouldn't hesitate, either. Aliens have provided time travel - want to do some real life dinosaur research? It certainly doesn't stay that simple, given our protagonist, his lovers and friends and grad students and boss can all meet themselves. An interesting book with a couple of really interesting dinosaur extinction ideas thrown in. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/11... ( ) bluetyson | Nov 25, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0380812894, Mass Market Paperback)Paleontologist Richard Leyster is studying the dinosaur-fossil discovery of a lifetime when a stranger comes into his office with an ice cooler and an offer: a mysterious and dangerous job that pays no better than Leyster's beloved current position at the Smithsonian. He rejects the offer and the stranger departs, leaving the cooler. Leyster opens the cooler and finds the head of a just-slain stegosaur. It really is an offer he can't refuse: a job that will allow him to study living dinosaurs. But the stranger has disappeared, and Leyster has no idea where to find him.Expanded from his Hugo Award-winning story "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur," Michael Swanwick's Bones of the Earth is a time-travel novel as exciting as Jurassic Park and far more intelligent. In addition to the Hugo, Michael Swanwick has won the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. His previous books include the novels In the Drift, Vacuum Flowers, and Griffin's Egg, and his collections include Gravity's Angels, A Geography of Unknown Lands, and Moon Dogs, among others. --Cynthia Ward (retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:50:16 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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