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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780981514833
ISBN: 0981514839
Label: Leapfrog Press
Manufacturer: Leapfrog Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Publisher: Leapfrog Press
Studio: Leapfrog Press
Features:- ISBN13: 9780981514833
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Product Description:
A long-extinct beetle appears in a physics lab. Four-and-a-half people and a dog are hurled 65 million years through time, to the Age of the Dinosaurs, and paleontologist Julian Whitney and his companions have only one chance for rescue. Meanwhile in the lab, police chief Sharon Earles must solve the mystery of why half a body remains 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?
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an awesome story of time travel. lots of dinos from the cretaceous period are there, including triceratops, pachycephalosaurus, and T-rex. A must-read for any fan of science fiction and time travel.
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Cretaceous Dawn is well-written and quickly-paced. I enjoyed the accuracy of the period and he even talked about the temperatures of the time (not in a boring way though!). The descriptions of the Cretaceous period were great. I read it very quickly and look forward to reading more of his stuff.
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First of all, I generally enjoyed this book when I wasn't being distracted by editing gaffes, scientific mistakes, poor characterizations, and sub-par writing. Unfortunately, I was distracted a lot.
The story itself was pretty clever, even if at its core it's just about a few modern humans thrown back into the past in the age of the dinosaurs (specifically, the Cretaceous - era of the Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and velociraptors). There's a subplot in the modern era of a couple of ... Read More
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Cretaceous Dawn is a well-written, quickly-paced trek back to another time and place. The descriptions of Cretaceous flora and fauna are educational and often entertaining, and the human characters sufficiently fleshed out to earn a measure of attachment from the reader.
There are a handful of jarring continuity issues- the kind that stop you in your tracks and make you go back a paragraph or two to see if you missed something (you didn't). And these do impact on one's enjoyment of the ... Read More
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This is a well written story that moves right along. The only drawback is that the narration frequently veers off into a thin excuse for an education. That is, the authors set up scenarios for the sole purpose of introducing another dinosaur species, not necessarily to provide drama or to move the story along.
That criticism aside, it a fun story.
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