{5\/5} “We have means of detecting a paradox before it actually happens — and, again, I won’t tell you what they are. But any threat to this precious and fragile enterprise will be nipped in the bud, I can assure you that. And those responsible will be punished. No exceptions. And no clemency, either.”<\/p>\n
Leyster is a paleontologist who works for the Smithsonian — he’s excited about a dig where they’ve recently found dinosaur footprints. Then he gets an offer he can’t refuse from a mysterious visitor — go back in time and study live dinosaurs. It turns out that someone has given humans time travel — but there are rules. Almost everyone follows the rules — except for Salley. What discoveries will the team make in the Cretaceous period? Who is it that’s given humans time travel, and why?<\/p>\n
Bones of the Earth<\/strong> by Michael Swanwick was published in 2002.<\/p>\n Maybe you’ve read lots of stories about time travel. Maybe you’ve even read lots of stories about dinosaurs. But you haven’t read one like this.<\/p>\n How many books, besides Jurassic Park<\/strong>, have you read where the main characters are paleontologists? It’s a great set of characters for visiting the time of the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n This book reminded me most of Stephen Baxter’s Evolution<\/strong> for its fascinating facts and speculation about long-dead animals. The ideas about how different dinosaur species could have related to one another were mind boggling.<\/p>\n What would you do if you were stuck in the time of the dinosaurs? You’d work on food, shelter, and avoiding the tyrannosaurs.<\/p>\n It’s an intriguing book all the way through but the last quarter kicks it into high gear. Some of the characters get a chance to meet the beings who are behind giving them time travel.<\/p>\n This is the first Swanwick novel I’ve read, and I’m planning on reading more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {5\/5} “We have means of detecting a paradox before it actually happens — and, again, I won’t tell you what they are. But any threat to this precious and fragile enterprise will be nipped in the bud, I can assure you that. And those responsible will be punished. No exceptions. And no clemency, either.” Leyster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-3402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3402"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}