Dinosaur Summer - Hardcover

Bear, Greg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446520985 ISBN 13: 9780446520980

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1998

Synopsis

In 1947, dinosaurs are living free on a plateau in South America, and when adventurers Peter Belzoni and his father--on a mission to return the attractions of a dinosaur circus to their natural habitat--are stranded there after a vicious attack, they must outwit their predators long enough to escape.

About this title

Review:

Remember Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, in which an expedition led by Professor George Edward Challenger discovered an Amazonian plateau where dinosaurs still roamed? In Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear assumes that Challenger's expedition really took place, and that for nearly 50 years dinosaurs have been relatively commonplace in zoos and circuses throughout the world. But the beasts are not easily kept in captivity, and slowly but surely their numbers are dwindling. Now there is only one dinosaur circus left, and it's shutting down. The dinosaur trainer wants to return his animals to the wild, so an expedition is organized to return the dinos to their nearly inaccessible plateau. Accompanying the group (which includes special-effects master Ray Harryhausen) is 15-year-old Peter Belzoni, the son of the National Geographic photographer covering the story. The boy is about to have the adventure of a lifetime.

About the Author:

Greg Bear, author of more than twenty-five books that have been translated into seventeen languages, has won science fiction’s highest honors and is considered the natural heir to Arthur C. Clarke. The recipient of two Hugos and four Nebulas for his fiction, he has been called “the best working writer of hard science fiction” by The Science Fiction Encyclopedia. Many of his novels, such as Darwin’s Radio, are considered to be this generations’ classics. Bear is married to Astrid Anderson, daughter of science fiction great Poul Anderson, and they are the parents of two children, Erik and Alexandria. His recent thriller novel, Quantico, was published in 2007 and the sequel, Mariposa, followed in 2009. He has since published a new, epic science fiction novel, City at the End of Time and a generation starship novel, Hull Zero Three.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0446520985
• ISBN 13: 9780446520980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 321
• Illustrator: DiTerlizzi Tony