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    <body><![CDATA[It is amazing that a book combining two of the coolest subject areas in the world - dinosaurs and time travel - manages to come off so dry and uninspired.  Somehow this book manages to take most of the fun out of both aspects of the book, combine them with multitudes of uninteresting characters and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72217588">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I needed a &quot;light summer read&quot; after all the intense writing and reading I've been doing (research, etc.), so I settled down on the deck one afternoon with this book and was totally swept away. What a GREAT dinosaur/time travel story, and the writing is clear and evocative. GREAT STUFF! Te...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65668447">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Paleontologist Richard Leyster has achieved professional nirvana: a position with the Smithsonian Museum plus a groundbreaking dinosaur fossil site he can research, publish on, and learn from for years to come. There is <em>nothing</em> that could lure him away -- until a disturbingly secretive stranger named Griffin enters Leyster's office with an ice cooler and a job offer. In the cooler is the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus.&lt;/p&gt;Griffin has been entrusted with an extraordinary gift, an impossible technology on loan to humanity from unknown beings for an undisclosed purpose. Time travel has become a reality millions of years before it rationally could be. With it, Richard Leyster and his colleagues can make their most cherished fantasy come true. They can study the dinosaurs up close, in their own time and milieu.&lt;/p&gt;Now, suddenly, individual lives can turn back on themselves. People can meet, shake hands, and converse with their younger versions at various crossroads in time. One wrong word, a single misguided act, could be disastrous to the project and to the world. But Griffin must make sure everything that is <em>supposed</em> to happen does happen -- no matter who is destined to be hurt... or die.&lt;/p&gt;And then there's Dr. Gertrude Salley -- passionate, fearless, and brutally ambitious -- a genius rebel in the tight community of &quot;bone men&quot; and women. Alternately both Leyster's and Griffin's chief rival, trusted colleague, despised nemesis, and inscrutable lover at various junctures throughout time, Salley is relentlessly driven to screw with the working mechanisms of natural law, audaciously trespassing in forbidden areas, pushing paradox to the edge no matter what the consequences may be. And, when they concern the largest, most savage creatures that ever lived, the consequences may be terrifying indeed.&lt;/p&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[if someone wrote a sci-fi novel as a work of magical realism, it'd be 'bones of the earth'.  for all that the loving research that went into this book shines through in clear-eyed detail about every long-dead organism populating the ancient earth, this isn't <em>hard</em> sci-fi.  a smithsonian paleontologis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17984027">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Paleontologist Richard Leyster is studying the dinosaur-fossil discovery of a lifetime when a stranger comes into his office with an ice cooler and an offer: a mysterious and dangerous job that pays no better than Leyster's beloved current position at the Smithsonian. He rejects the offer and the stranger departs, leaving the cooler. Leyster opens the cooler and finds the head of a just-slain stegosaur. It really is an offer he can't refuse: a job that will allow him to study living dinosaurs. But the stranger has disappeared, and Leyster has no idea where to find him.<p> Expanded from his Hugo Award-winning story &quot;Scherzo with Tyrannosaur,&quot; Michael Swanwick's <em>Bones of the Earth</em> is a time-travel novel as exciting as <em>Jurassic Park</em> and far more intelligent. In addition to the Hugo, Michael Swanwick has won the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. His previous books include the novels <em>In the Drift</em>, <em>Vacuum Flowers</em>, and <em>Griffin's Egg</em>, and his collections include <em>Gravity's Angels</em>, <em>A Geography of Unknown Lands</em>, and <em>Moon Dogs</em>, among others. <em>--Cynthia Ward</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why oh why am I such a sucker for time travel?  This wasn't great, but it a lot better than I thought it would be about fifty pages in.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Swanwick takes on paradoxes, time travel and dinosaurs with disturbing aplomb and a delightfully dark humor. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A solid enough time travel story.  While I enjoyed the book, there was nothing that really stood out about it to recommend.  ]]></body>
    
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