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Our Lady of the Sauropods
How long can one woman last, stranded and helpless, aboard a prehistoric habitat unit that she's sharing with a bunch of active, hungry dinosaurs? The next shuttle isn't due for 30 days... Hugo Award Nominee
20 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 1980
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Robert Silverberg
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Robert Silverberg is a highly celebrated American science fiction author and editor known for his prolific output and literary range. Over a career spanning decades, he has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2004. Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999, Silverberg is recognized for both his immense productivity and his contributions to the genre's evolution.
Born in Brooklyn, he began writing in his teens and won his first Hugo Award in 1956 as the best new writer. Throughout the 1950s, he produced vast amounts of fiction, often under pseudonyms, and was known for writing up to a million words a year. When the market declined, he diversified into other genres, including historical nonfiction and erotica.
Silverberg’s return to science fiction in the 1960s marked a shift toward deeper psychological and literary themes, contributing significantly to the New Wave movement. Acclaimed works from this period include Downward to the Earth, Dying Inside, Nightwings, and The World Inside. In the 1980s, he launched the Majipoor series with Lord Valentine’s Castle, creating one of the most imaginative planetary settings in science fiction.
Though he announced his retirement from writing in the mid-1970s, Silverberg returned with renewed vigor and continued to publish acclaimed fiction into the 1990s. He received further recognition with the Nebula-winning Sailing to Byzantium and the Hugo-winning Gilgamesh in the Outback.
Silverberg has also played a significant role as an editor and anthologist, shaping science fiction literature through both his own work and his influence on others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, author Karen Haber.
Robert Silverberg is a highly celebrated American science fiction author and editor known for his prolific output and literary range. Over a career spanning decades, he has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2004. Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999, Silverberg is recognized for both his immense productivity and his contributions to the genre's evolution.
Born in Brooklyn, he began writing in his teens and won his first Hugo Award in 1956 as the best new writer. Throughout the 1950s, he produced vast amounts of fiction, often under pseudonyms, and was known for writing up to a million words a year. When the market declined, he diversified into other genres, including historical nonfiction and erotica.
Silverberg’s return to science fiction in the 1960s marked a shift toward deeper psychological and literary themes, contributing significantly to the New Wave movement. Acclaimed works from this period include Downward to the Earth, Dying Inside, Nightwings, and The World Inside. In the 1980s, he launched the Majipoor series with Lord Valentine’s Castle, creating one of the most imaginative planetary settings in science fiction.
Though he announced his retirement from writing in the mid-1970s, Silverberg returned with renewed vigor and continued to publish acclaimed fiction into the 1990s. He received further recognition with the Nebula-winning Sailing to Byzantium and the Hugo-winning Gilgamesh in the Outback.
Silverberg has also played a significant role as an editor and anthologist, shaping science fiction literature through both his own work and his influence on others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, author Karen Haber.
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March 18, 2021
Written in 1980 - a good decade before Michael Crichton's far inferior novel "Jurassic Park" and its even worse cinematic adaptation by the execrable Steven Spielberg - this is the best single dinosaur story I know. Far better than Ray Bradbury's "A Sound Of Thunder", much better than L Sprague de Camp's "A Gun For Dinosaur", better even than Bob Bakker's by now utterly scientifically obsolete "Raptor Red".
Basic premise:
Some time in the future, a self contained habitat is established in a space station where dinosaurs (recreated from fossils) have been allowed to breed and live in as close a Mesozoic environment as is possible to recreate. Scientists in another space station routinely research the dinosaurs by visiting them in month long tours in armoured mobile self contained vehicles. Our protagonist, a woman scientist, is at loggerheads with the project head, a Dr Sarber, who wants to open the station to film crews and tourists to earn money. When she begins her month long tour, her vehicle immediately burns down with all her food and equipment. Escaping just in time, she is alone among the dinosaurs, at their mercy, compelled to survive for a month until the next ship comes. And then she begins to suspect that her vehicle didn't burn out by accident...
And then she begins to suspect something else. The dinosaurs aren't dumb stupid animals. They know she's there, they're studying her as assiduously as she is them, and after she injures herself falling out of a tree, they feed and take care of her until she recovers.
Why?
I can't say that without spoilers, but the story is available for free download online. Just read it.
Basic premise:
Some time in the future, a self contained habitat is established in a space station where dinosaurs (recreated from fossils) have been allowed to breed and live in as close a Mesozoic environment as is possible to recreate. Scientists in another space station routinely research the dinosaurs by visiting them in month long tours in armoured mobile self contained vehicles. Our protagonist, a woman scientist, is at loggerheads with the project head, a Dr Sarber, who wants to open the station to film crews and tourists to earn money. When she begins her month long tour, her vehicle immediately burns down with all her food and equipment. Escaping just in time, she is alone among the dinosaurs, at their mercy, compelled to survive for a month until the next ship comes. And then she begins to suspect that her vehicle didn't burn out by accident...
And then she begins to suspect something else. The dinosaurs aren't dumb stupid animals. They know she's there, they're studying her as assiduously as she is them, and after she injures herself falling out of a tree, they feed and take care of her until she recovers.
Why?
I can't say that without spoilers, but the story is available for free download online. Just read it.
October 30, 2025
A fun story.
Starts of as a simple "survival against the elements" story, and then goes off in an unexpected direction. Mind you, one should have known that something unexpected was going to happen. This is Robert Silverberg after all. He is always full of surprises.
Being someone of a theological bent I got a great kick out of this one. It was easy to just suspend one's preconceived notions and go with the story. Speculative fiction should always be as much about having some fun sometimes as well as thinking about new ideas.
And this story is dinosaurs above that second rate movie....what was it....Area 407?
Starts of as a simple "survival against the elements" story, and then goes off in an unexpected direction. Mind you, one should have known that something unexpected was going to happen. This is Robert Silverberg after all. He is always full of surprises.
Being someone of a theological bent I got a great kick out of this one. It was easy to just suspend one's preconceived notions and go with the story. Speculative fiction should always be as much about having some fun sometimes as well as thinking about new ideas.
And this story is dinosaurs above that second rate movie....what was it....Area 407?
November 5, 2021
A surprising science fantasy tale that begins with a bang—dinosaur researcher’s protective personal module breaks down—and goes from a survival adventure into a quasi-religious experience. It’s interesting and different, both in its depiction of the science as well as the introduction of the fantastic. Recommended.
October 10, 2019
The original Jurassic Park. Plagiarism is something that everyone can believe in.
April 21, 2023
SilverBob presents a tale that might make you think of Jurassic Park, but it is better than most Jurassic Park.
June 21, 2015
Uma prévia de Jurassic Park.
Dinossauros recriados numa estação espacial vivendo uma comunidade telepática?
Dinossauros recriados numa estação espacial vivendo uma comunidade telepática?
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