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Dragonstar #1
Day Of The Dragonstar
Day of the Dragonstar
Book One of the Dragonstar Series
by David Bischoff and Thomas F. Monteleone
An artificial Jurassic world spins through space, kilometers long and made to order, build to endure for an eternity. An enticing mystery for the humans of the Heinlein exploratory mission, it holds deadly secrets from the universe’s savage past.
INSIDE THE MILES-LONG SPACESHIP IT WAS 160 MILLION YEARS AGO ...
Day after artificial day, outwitting the carnivorous saurians that had devoured their shipmates, the two survivors of the Heinlein expedition to the mysterious object known as Artifact One picked their way through the vast, horizonless jungle that filled the hull of the star-traveling terrerium.
They did what a man and a woman fighting together to survive usually do:
They prayed for rescue.
They searched for a way to escape.
They fell in love
Then, from a rise in the forest, they saw a wall.
And something on the wall saw them.
THE SENTRY
Atop a crumbling rampart stood a sentry, weapon grasped in its four-fingered hand, partly clothed ... its snout instintively twitching at the scent of the man and woman walking toward its city.
Book One of the Dragonstar Series
by David Bischoff and Thomas F. Monteleone
An artificial Jurassic world spins through space, kilometers long and made to order, build to endure for an eternity. An enticing mystery for the humans of the Heinlein exploratory mission, it holds deadly secrets from the universe’s savage past.
INSIDE THE MILES-LONG SPACESHIP IT WAS 160 MILLION YEARS AGO ...
Day after artificial day, outwitting the carnivorous saurians that had devoured their shipmates, the two survivors of the Heinlein expedition to the mysterious object known as Artifact One picked their way through the vast, horizonless jungle that filled the hull of the star-traveling terrerium.
They did what a man and a woman fighting together to survive usually do:
They prayed for rescue.
They searched for a way to escape.
They fell in love
Then, from a rise in the forest, they saw a wall.
And something on the wall saw them.
THE SENTRY
Atop a crumbling rampart stood a sentry, weapon grasped in its four-fingered hand, partly clothed ... its snout instintively twitching at the scent of the man and woman walking toward its city.
291 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1983
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About the author
David Bischoff
164 books104 followersaka Mark Grant (with Bruce King), Brad Quentin (with Terry Bisson)
Born in Washington D.C. and now living in Eugene, Oregon, David Bischoff writes science fiction books, short stories, and scripts for television. Though he has been writing since the early 1970s, and has had over 80 books published, David is best known for novelizations of popular movies and TV series including the Aliens, Gremlins, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and WarGames.
Born in Washington D.C. and now living in Eugene, Oregon, David Bischoff writes science fiction books, short stories, and scripts for television. Though he has been writing since the early 1970s, and has had over 80 books published, David is best known for novelizations of popular movies and TV series including the Aliens, Gremlins, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and WarGames.
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January 4, 2013
Good Sci-Fi Novel.
The only problem with it was at the end of the Story, it left the Reader having to wait until the next volume as this is the beginning of a series. I enjoy Novels that have a beginning and an ending in the same Book and it seems more Authors rather than finish things up in one Book do the 'ol Series route with their written creations. Sometimes it really works in developing a 'Series', but stand alone full Novels are considerably better.
The 'Best' Series? DUNE.
The only problem with it was at the end of the Story, it left the Reader having to wait until the next volume as this is the beginning of a series. I enjoy Novels that have a beginning and an ending in the same Book and it seems more Authors rather than finish things up in one Book do the 'ol Series route with their written creations. Sometimes it really works in developing a 'Series', but stand alone full Novels are considerably better.
The 'Best' Series? DUNE.
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October 31, 2013
Well, I liked it. Did not know it was written so long ago. The publisher did an awful job of proof reading - spell check is not proofing! This was the worst book for wrong words that I have ever read. At least one wrong word every three pages. But it was good. A mix of Ringworld meets Jurassic Park and the Haj. I will read the next one. Can't decide if it is a 3.5 or 3.75.
September 7, 2012
Loved it!
Jurassic park in space, before Crichton.
Jurassic park in space, before Crichton.
August 1, 2017
I enjoyed this story, even though some of the dinosaurs weren't exactly true to form. I'll have to pass that off as separate evolution, since (from what I've read) a compsognathus is the size of a turkey, not almost the size of an average person, and as we all know, (much to my dismay, as it was my favorite dinosaur when I was little), the brontosaurus doesn't actually exist, but otherwise, the story was pretty well written, and although there are minor plot elements I could argue with, I see nothing wrong with the story as a whole, and actually quite enjoyed it. I'll definitely be working on the others in the series. Great fun, since there are few dinosaur stories that are squeezed into the scifi genre. (Note, I didn't say any, since I most definitely enjoyed Ann McAffrey's dinosaur planet series). The story combines modern plots with creatures millions of years old, what's not to love in that?
December 31, 2024
Somehow, Bischoff manages to write about a generation-ship spaceship of intelligent dinosaurs and make it boring.
We don't see the intelligent dinos until halfway through the book, and we barely get a good view of them even after that. There's only one dino character who's at all multidimensional, and only a couple more who even have named speaking parts. Instead, the dinos are backdrop to a story about human political tensions around the discovery of this generation ship... and even worse, the romantic entanglements of the astronaut crew.
I wanted the dinos. There's potential here in Bischoff's worldbuilding... but only slight potential. Even the potential of a dino generation ship is averted by his having it built by ancient aliens who guided the evolution of the dinos into sapience. Often, I say a world I've read about deserves a better book; here, I say the premise deserves better development.
We don't see the intelligent dinos until halfway through the book, and we barely get a good view of them even after that. There's only one dino character who's at all multidimensional, and only a couple more who even have named speaking parts. Instead, the dinos are backdrop to a story about human political tensions around the discovery of this generation ship... and even worse, the romantic entanglements of the astronaut crew.
I wanted the dinos. There's potential here in Bischoff's worldbuilding... but only slight potential. Even the potential of a dino generation ship is averted by his having it built by ancient aliens who guided the evolution of the dinos into sapience. Often, I say a world I've read about deserves a better book; here, I say the premise deserves better development.
December 22, 2007
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June 5, 2009
A good one.
Want to read
March 4, 2011Book D1. GoodReads book record lists co-author Thomas F. Monteleone, but doesn't list in shelf author column, nor does this book turn up for him in personal shelf search.
July 5, 2012
This is a new release from Event Horizon EBooks, an e-book reprint of the original 1983 hard copy book. Note that the rating is posted by the publisher.
March 20, 2016
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