thistlechaser's review
1.0
A collection of short stories, supposedly about dinosaurs. The first story was a horror story about some guy who genetically engineered dinosaurs from chickens and they started killing people. The second was about an alternate earth were dinosaurs had evolved into people. Neither story worked for me, and as the first two stories in an anthology are generally the strongest ones, I gave up on the book.
tbr_the_unconquered's review
1.0
Finding a book full of short stories that featured dinosaurs felt just about great when I started this book. What better entertainment than to spend time with dinosaurs on the rampage and humans trying desperately to escape from them ? While I did find a few stories in this collection along this vein, most were totally off the mark. There are dino-human hybrids, lands lost in time, experiments gone wrong and so on but they were not what I was looking for. Most of the stories were lacklustre and did not hold water but there were a couple I really liked :
•A spear for Allosaur by Victor Milan – A teenager who hunts a fierce Allosaur in the world of Milan’s Dinosaur Lords. The backdrop and the structure of this story was good and held my attention for the entire duration of the tale.
•Szcar’s Trial by Harry Manners – Told from the POV of a raptor and her ordeal by fire this one was a whiff of fresh air in the anthology.
While a few others showed promise in fits and starts, the overall stories were rather lukewarm. There was even a very obvious rip-off of a famous scene from Jurassic Park in one of the stories.
Just so-so.
•A spear for Allosaur by Victor Milan – A teenager who hunts a fierce Allosaur in the world of Milan’s Dinosaur Lords. The backdrop and the structure of this story was good and held my attention for the entire duration of the tale.
•Szcar’s Trial by Harry Manners – Told from the POV of a raptor and her ordeal by fire this one was a whiff of fresh air in the anthology.
While a few others showed promise in fits and starts, the overall stories were rather lukewarm. There was even a very obvious rip-off of a famous scene from Jurassic Park in one of the stories.
Just so-so.
jen1110's review
4.0
Bumped up my review from 3 to 4 stars just because of Seanan McGuire's story. It was amazing and well worth the price of admission.
tundragirl's review
4.0
All of the stories in this anthology are good, and with hard SF, high fantasy, riffs on Jurassic Park, and even a Raymond Chandler-type story, there's something for everyone. Also: dinosaurs.
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