Title: Dinosaur Summer
Title Record # 11650
Author: Greg Bear
Date: 1998-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: Greg Bear
Date: 1998-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: From the flaps of the Warner first edition: "It's the year 1947, and nobody's interested in dinosaurs anymore. Less than fifty years after Professor Challenger's famed journey to the Lost World, America's last dinosaur circus is closing down... but the adventure of a lifetime is about to begin. In a dramatic change of pace, multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction master Greg Bear, ... presents a lavishly illustrated thriller that is certain to become a new classic adventure beyond time...
Peter Belzoni is dreading summer in Manhattan. Then his father, photojournalist Anthony Belzoni, offers the youth a job, a byline in National Geographic... and a trip to South America. For the Lothar Gluck Circus, once the world's foremost dinosaur attraction, had gone bankrupt. Left behind is a menagerie of avisaurs, centrosaurs, and ankylosaurs, as well as one large predatory raptor named Dagger. And now two filmmakers and the circus trainer plan to return the giants to the wild - with Peter and his dad chronicling the odyssey for Geographic. The task seems impossible. Many have died trying to bring beasts our of the Lost World, the plateau of El Grande in Venezuela, but nobody has ever attempted to transport nearly a dozen full-grown, multiton prehistoric creatures across continents, down rivers, through jungles, and up mountains that has been isolated for 70,000,000 years...
The trek will strain the technologies of trains, cargo ships, barges, trucks... en route lurk robbers and hostile, trigger-happy soldiers... and each mile toward freedom excites Dagger toward an unstoppable primal killing frenzy. When the unthinkable threatens to strand Peter and the rest of the crew in an uncharted realm, four modern Americans will face all the unknown dangers, mysteries, and terrors of El Grande..."
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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Nomination | 1998 Sidewise | Best Long Form Alternate History |
Win | 1999 Endeavour | Distinguished Novel or Collection |
11 | 1999 Locus | Best SF Novel |
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Dinosaur Summer | 1998-02-00 | Greg Bear | Aspect / Warner Books | 0-446-52098-5 | $23.00?$: US dollar |
325 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Tony DiTerlizzi | |
Dinosaur Summer | 1998-04-00 | Greg Bear | Aspect / Warner Books / SFBC | 19357 | $10.98?$: US dollar |
325 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Tony DiTerlizzi | |
Dinosaur Summer | 1998-10-00 | Greg Bear | Voyager | 0-00-648367-4 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
367 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
Dinosaur Summer | 1999-02-00 | Greg Bear | Aspect / Warner Books | 0-446-60666-9 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
389 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Tony DiTerlizzi | |
Dinosaur Summer | 1999-07-00 | Greg Bear | Severn House | 0-7278-5423-2 | £17.99?£: UK pound |
367 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
Dinosaur Summer | 2008-12-00 | Greg Bear | e-reads.com | 978-0-7592-9584-1 | $19.95?$: US dollar |
312 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Dinosaur Summer | 2011-12-00 | Greg Bear | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-12337-3 | £2.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
Dinosaur Summer | 2012-09-28 | Greg Bear | Audible Studios | $21.70?$: US dollar |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
novel | ||||
Dinosaur Summer | 2014-04-00 | Greg Bear | Open Road Integrated Media | 978-1-4976-0876-4 | $9.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
Dinosaur Summer | 2016-07-19 | Greg Bear | Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio | 978-1-5226-8570-8 | $9.99?$: US dollar |
audio MP3 CD?Compact disc with mp3-encoded audio tracks |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by Jonathan Strahan (1998) in Locus, #444 January 1998
- Review by Russell Letson (1998) in Locus, #445 February 1998
- Review by Paul Di Filippo (1998) in Science Fiction Age, March 1998
- Review by Tamara I. Hladik (1998) in Science Fiction Weekly, 9 Mar 1998
- Review by Hank Wagner (1998) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 1998
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1998) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 1998
- Review by Mark L. Olson (1998) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, Summer 1998
- Review by Paul Di Filippo (1998) in Asimov's Science Fiction, December 1998
- Review by Rodger Turner (1998) in SF Site, Mid-February 1998, (1998)
- Review by Andy Mills (1999) in Vector 203