..".An adventure-filled journey... In spite of its references to
hard academic science, 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 cliffhangers to keep readers traveling on to
the inevitable conclusion."--Natural History "The Grazianos,
sibling scientists, combine speculation and science in a
compulsively page-turning time-travel adventure. A physics
experiment gone awry sends four people and a dog 65 million years
into the past. Day-to-day survival among creatures like giant croc
Deinosuchus and T. rex becomes a priority, even as the group of
stranded scientists realizes that getting home involves a 1,000
mile trek across the amazing landscape of Hell Creek. Details about
plants, animals and insects in the distant past set the stage for a
tight, scientifically plausible plot with a wholly unexpected twist
that will keep readers guessing."--Publishers Weekly 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? "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 Lisa M. Graziano, PhD, is a freelance editor and
writer living on Cape Cod, Mass. She spent ten years as a professor
of oceanography in Woods Hole, Mass. before turning to a full-time
writing career. Michael S. A. Graziano, PhD, is a neuroscientist at
Princeton University. He is the author of both fiction and
nonfiction.
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