Cretaceous Dawn by Lisa M. Graziano, Michael S. A. Graziano
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- Publisher: Leapfrog Press
- Pub. Date: September 2008
- ISBN-13: 9780981514833
- Sales Rank: 42,282
- 304pp
Synopsis
"A rip-snorting good yarn. . . . Cretaceous Dawn's strength is its ability to transport the reader back in time to truly experience the Cretaceous."-Dinosaur News
"Rendered with a clarity and vividness that gives the novel its richness, Cretaceous Dawn is plain fun, and educational at that. Short of time travel, this is as close as you'll ever get to the grim, predatory world of the Cretaceous."-Falmouth Enterprise
"From the Inland Sea to the infant Rocky Mountains, we see the entirety of a long-gone ecosystem. The authors' scientific knowledge gives the story, and the giant creatures it is centered around, a realism that is immensely entertaining."-Prehistoric Times
"[The era is] described so vividly the reader forgets that no human overlapped with a dinosaur in the sands of time."-The Cape Cod Chronicle
A long-extinct beetle appears in a physics lab. Four-and-a-half people and a dog are hurled sixty-five million years through time, to the Age of the Dinosaurs. Paleontologist Julian Whitney and his companions have one chance for rescue: a thousand-mile journey through the dinosaur-infested wilderness. Sixty-five million years in the future, police chief Sharon Earles must solve the mystery of exactly half a body remaining where five people had just been. Physicists try to determine what went wrong. But can they fix the vault in time to retrieve the missing people-and do they want to?
Natural History magazine
[A] fast-paced . . . adventure-filled journey through a thousand miles of Cretaceous landscape . . . Cretaceous Dawn is a first-class adventure story, an effortless read as engaging as vintage Jules Verne. The descriptive prose is both evocative and illuminating, and the plot has enough twists and cliff hangers to keep readers traveling on to the inevitable translocation back to the present.
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Lisa M. Graziano, PhD, is an oceanographer and freelance editor on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Michael S. A. Graziano, PhD, is a neuroscientist at PrincetonUniversity and the author of several award-winning novels.
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September 25, 2008: 'Cretaceous Dawn' is a brand new thriller that, for those of a scientific background or for those who have enthusiasm for paleontology in general, I highly recommend taking the time to read. Full, flowing text, seamless integration of scientific terminology with Layman interpretations, characters and situations so intense and real...this book is definitely one for those searching for perfect dinosaur-themed fiction. It reads better than Dan Brown, faster than Michael Crichton, and will leave you breathless when concluded. Despite the immense fictional leeway 'of course, time travel has yet to be perfected!', there are a lot of surprisingly accurate details that go into the story, especially when it comes to the native animals, their wild environments, and their behavior. The depictions of the science department, academia and life on the college campus is also very accurate. Beyond the science, there is so much raw emotion and intense character interaction, it is really hard to put the book down, and even afterward, you want to find a vault and get yourself reverted to the Cretaceous! In short, a wonderful tale that will make you think and for the dinosaur lover, one that will send chills down your spine. I applaud the authors on this book, and I hope it becomes a best-seller. --Diana Pomeroy, Administrator for The Paleo Enthusiast Forum, and Member, The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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