Book question.

[ceebee_eebee]

Ok. As I'm sure most of you are aware, I am an extremely monomaniacal individual. My obsessions come hard and fast and then they are done when I move onto the next shiny thing that I can't stop thinking about for more than 5 seconds at a time.

On occasion, I have obsessions that crop up again and again. One of those is...well, paleontology in a general sense. The Cambrian explosion, trilobites, dimetrodons, the Permian mass extinction, DINOSAURS!!!

So, when the Discovery Channel started showing the new miniseries Clash of the Dinosaurs (AWESOME, BTW!) I got hooked and now I can't stop thinking about this shit. I've already ordered a bunch of scientific books for the layperson on the subjects and reread Jurassic Park and the Lost World.

HERE IS MY QUESTION, GREAT FLIST. Why the hell isn't there more dinosaur fiction available? I NEED MORE DINO FIC!

If you have read anything that a lover of extinct creatures and the whole Jurassic Park situation might enjoy, PLEASE REC IT TO ME RIGHT NOW! I beg you. I'm desperate for more paleo-fiction.

Comments

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

*delurks* One of my favorite books is Dinosaur Summer, by Greg Bear--it's sort of a pastiche on The Lost World and King Kong, and it's written very much from a fanboy perspective on the two. Plus it's just really well-written in general, and the whole atmosphere is interesting--it takes place in the thirties, well after 'dinosaur circuses' using creatures from basically-the-Lost-World are old hat and nobody really cares about them any more, and the main plot is about the last circus owner in the US taking his performers back to where they came from. It's just a really good book. *relurks*

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

I saw that one on amazon. Definitely putting it on the list. Thanks, sweetpea. <3