The ancient world was both a place of awesome natural beauty and bowel-clenching terror. In his wildest dreams he could never have foreseen that he would travel to Patagonia and document such incredible creatures as Mapusaurus roseae and Argentinosaurus huinculensis, in context and from their own time in the Mid-Cretaceous. When his lifelong fascination with natural history and paleontology became crucial to the very survival of over a hundred people, he was suddenly a ‘somebody’.

Tim Norris was a nerd, an outcast, a ‘nobody’. Battling conflicting evidence, misinformation and baffling discoveries they hope to reveal who has placed them in such terrible danger, why, and most importantly, what on ancient Earth can they do about it? The crew and passengers of the USS New World are lost almost 100 million years ago in Mid-Cretaceous Gondwana. Worse still, the knowledge of a boy, just days out of school, may be all that stands between mankind and extinction. Nor was the custodianship of all human life, history and endeavour. Leading a fledgling society through a wild and hostile world was not part of his brief. However, for one man, there is no choice at all…Ĭaptain James Douglas sets off on a mundane transport and supply mission that quickly descends into disaster. When every action and decision may determine the fate of everyone who has ever lived, the right choice is not always clear. I highly recommend this high energy adventure and would place it between Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clark.An insane plan is hatched to save humanity. My dreams were never this chilling, nor the ending as thrilling. 'I've often dreamt of trying to survive on a new planet and pitting myself against nature. The dinosaurs wait, too - for the electricity to die and the feast to begin. The last remnant of the human race waits behind the electric fence for their return. With most of the adult men dead, rookie soldier Caleb Wilde and his unit of teenage boys leave the electric fences of Eden in search of a reactor core lost deep in the jungle. The humans’ one defense against the dinosaurs ravaging the planet is an electric fence, built from the remains of the shuttles that brought them there.īut Eden base has only days of power left.

The passengers landed on Tau Ceti e expecting paradise, but instead they discovered a planet stuck in its own version of the cretaceous period. Two hundred years ago, the great Ark Horizon Alpha escaped a doomed Earth and went searching for a new home. “We never would have come here if we’d known.” The pace is fast, the stakes are high, and the safety of no one is guaranteed.' (John Burris, author of Brothers) 'There's plenty of jet fuel for the imagination.

Predators of Eden by D.W. Vogel