Dreaming Dragons

My reading of Dreaming Dragons suffered from too many interruptions.

This is one whose focus is not at first clear. Is this a fantasy novel, as the cover suggests, a mythic exploration, an Aboriginal dream come to life? Is it hard science, social science, psychology?

It is a complex story written in sections in which the writing becomes at times pretty opaque, but it is in service of the story, not just there for the experiment. Hang in and you will be rewarded.

Anthropologist Alf Dean and his autistic nephew, Mouse, discover a hidden alien portal in a Central Australian cave. They uncover a Vault containing a time-travel device, revealing that intelligent dinosaurs created humanity before their extinction.

Alf and Mouse explore remote caves looking for evidence of the Rainbow Serpent, but instead find a shimmering "gate" that transports them to an underground alien facility beneath Uluru, Ayers Rock.

The secret is being investigated by military forces, with the alien technology causing madness or death to those nearby.

Ok, I admit, my reasons for giving this bk a 4 star review are flimsy. On page 51 he uses the word "anarchist" in a manner I approve of. THEN, on page 58, he describes a Mark Boyle photograph in a character's foyer. Mark Boyle's an English artist who did light shows for The Soft Machine & other very interesting things. Very few people seem to know who he is. That sort of detail in a bk perks my little mind right up.

Dragons is the story of an aboriginal scientist and his autistic nephew who stumble on a alien cache that may not only hold the secrets to earth's survival in the future, but to humanity's past as well. Unusual, haunting, well worth the hunt.