Dinosaur Science Fiction

After decades, the Mexican civil war is all but over, but a review of captured documents reveals a secret—the now-deceased guerrilla leader of La Fuerza was, for over a decade, stealing from his own revolution. Billions of dollars are missing—enough to sustain the war effort, if discovered, or maybe even topple the struggling Mexican government. Private contractor Seamus O'Malley, leading an elite team, is tasked with locating and retrieving the cash.

Ein neues Abenteuer für William Trudel und seinen besten Freund, den Weihnachtosaurus! Ein Jahr nach seiner zauberhaften Begegnung mit dem außergewöhnlichsten Dinosaurier aller Zeiten verschlägt es William wieder an den magischen Nordpol zum Weihnachtsmann. Dort trifft er auf die unheimliche Winterhexe.

William liebt Weihnachten über alles. Doch seinen größten Wunsch kann niemand erfüllen: einen echten Dinosaurier. Da hat er die Rechnung aber ohne die Wichtel am Nordpol gemacht, die tief im Eis ein geheimnisvolles Ei entdecken. Der Weihnachtsmann persönlich brütet es aus. Zur Verblüffung aller schlüpft ein kleiner Dino: der Weihnachtosaurus! Als er und William sich in der Weihnachtsnacht begegnen, erleben sie nicht nur ein fantastisches, zum Brüllen komisches Abenteuer, sondern auch, was es heißt, seinem Herzen zu folgen - selbst wenn man dabei im Rollstuhl sitzt.

Benjamin and his sister, Rose, have been set a mission by Professor Arkwright to record the K-T extinction event and gather some specimens. But when a huge flying reptile snatches the key to their time machine, they are forced to venture further into the prehistoric wilderness, encountering some of the deadliest creatures to have ever roamed Earth.

Sheils is very pleased with her perfectly controlled life (controlling others while she's at it). She's smart, powerful, the student body chair, and she even has a loving boyfriend. What more could a girl ask for? But everything changes when the first-ever interspecies transfer student, a pterodactyl named Pyke, enrolls at her school. There's something about him - something primal - that causes the students to lose control whenever he's around.

Colonel Daniel Drake was a name known to every man, woman, and child for he directed the project that would fulfill humanity’s oldest dream. The building of Argos had cost him everything including his family but, for the hard-driving colonel, nothing would stop this first expedition to the stars. An endeavor that, oddly enough, some on Earth seemed willing to sacrifice anything to stop. Initial attempts to sabotage the ship did not prevent the departure of the expedition to Tau Ceti but things went downhill from there.

Could griffins have been real? When Adrienne Mayor carefully read the ancient Greek and Roman descriptions, this mythic hybrid of a lion and an eagle sounded like something people had actually seen. What could explain that evidence? After a decade of hunting through myths, poring over old maps, and tracing the discoveries of modern dinosaur hunters, she found the answer: awesome dinosaur fossils observed by ancient gold hunters in the Gobi desert.

In The Dinosaur Tourist, Caitlín R. Kiernan’s 15th collection of short fiction, 19 tales of the unexpected and the uncanny explore that treacherous gulf between what we suppose the world to be and what might actually be waiting out beyond the edges of our day-to-day experience. A mirror may be a window into another time. A cat may be our salvation. Your lover may be a fabulous being. And a hitchhiker may turn out to be anyone at all.

It's 1863, and dinosaurs roam the streets of New York as the Civil War rages between raptor-mounted armies down South. Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are on a field trip when the Draft Riots break out, and a number of their fellow orphans are kidnapped by an evil magistrate, Richard Riker. Magdalys and her friends flee to Brooklyn and settle in the Dactyl Hill neighborhood. Together with the Vigilance Committee, they train to fly on dactylback, discover new friends and amazing dinosaurs, and plot to take down Riker.

The world of the dinosaur: 65 million years ago, when giant beasts fought each other for dominance of the herd. One monarch has a vision of a better world in which dinosaurs cooperate and live in peace. But that peace is shattered when hostile aliens challenge them for dominion of the Earth.

Time is ticking down in the Empire’s game, and Alan has only five months to establish dominance in all three Metal mines... one of which is controlled by the enemy nation of Britonia. After a daring rescue mission exposes Britonia’s endless supply of high-tech weapons, Alan must now devise a way to beat their superior firepower using his biggest advantage: the bond he shares with his dinosaurs.

You never know what might happen when three friends set off on an adventure. Especially when one is a scaredy-cat, one is close to fearless, and one is learning to rely on faith to overcome obstacles. Throw in a bully, an ally-turned-villain, and a heavy dose of T-Rex, and the adventure turns into the quest of a lifetime.

Six friends on a tourist trip to the Korean DMZ have their lives changed forever when they decide to step into a no-man’s-land. They soon discover that a border is not the only line they’ve crossed. A revealed secret between them causes bad blood to spill over, preventing the friends from cooperating. With the specter of capture by a totalitarian regime awaiting them should they stray too far off course, and with a pack of primordial predators roaming the woods, the travelers must find a way to set aside their differences if they are to avoid becoming political prisoners...or prey.

Aliens visit the Earth and collect small specimens for laboratory study, not realizing they are kidnapping children. In an effort to get them back, King Rex forges an alliance with the aliens who hold the secret to flying without wings. Without their help there is no hope of traveling to their home world and getting the children back. Rex is not the only one who has made an alliance with the aliens. Roughstone, a renegade general, has built his own army to take control of the empire. His opportunity will come when the King leaves on his rescue mission.

Out-of-work cybersecurity entrepreneur Fitz needs a job fast. Frantic to make rent, the appearance of a nude redhead and a bizarre recruitment ad are too coincidental to ignore. But after accepting the cryptic gig, he’s shocked to wake up naked on a tropical planet ruled by free-loving cat-like humanoids short on virile males. More than happy to snuggle with a young princess to help the natives with their fertility woes, the nerd struggles with the brutal training required to face a deadly foe.

Susan loves her giant, Deinonychus boyfriend but they can't exactly be intimate now, can they? After all, Moab is a giant, apex predator working the mean streets of the raptor colony, while Susan is a slim, sexy yoga teacher. A human, and an herbivore, at that! Susan craves more from their relationship than romantic dinners and selfies. Deep down, she's dating a dinosaur to satisfy her fierce, primal desires. And even though Moab's talons are long and sharp, and she is squishy and delicate, she is determined to take their relationship to a new level . . . or die trying!

This is a humorous, episodic novel of dark fantasy and science fiction, composed of the four novellas Amy and the Ankylosaurus, Helen and the Evil Elves of the Elder Gods, Sithe in the City, and Dragon vs Dinosaur. It begins when Magnus creates a device to open portals to other quantum universes so he can show his ex-girlfriend, Amy, real dinosaurs. This goes awry when Amy goes through the portal and he has to rescue her, accompanied by his fellow scientist Helen, Amy's best friend.

The tide of zombies appears to be under control, thanks to the franken-beasts known as dinosaurs. However, one calm zombie shifts the tide. Soon they swell in like foaming water, buffeting against the frail walls men make. Pools of blood will flow, teeth with gnash, and not even dinosaurs will be able to stop this onslaught.

When Pea opened a portal and the alien cat, Max Gigan, jumped through from another dimension, he certainly didn't expect the talking tomcat to stay on as a family pet. He soon learns it can come in handy to have a fur ball from an alternate universe around when his friend reopens the portal letting in vampire velociraptors who want to slime and eat the whole city! Pea’s dad is one of the first infected. But his dear old dad isn’t the only one. The dinosaurs escape the museum where the portal opened and rampage through Milwaukee.

By the time I’d established a camp in the covered breezeway of the Luxor obelisk - “Cleopatra’s Needle” it was called, at least according to a bronze placard on its wall - and bound her hands and feet, the sun had set and a slight rain had started to fall; something I fully welcomed after so much time in the desert. As to whether the girl welcomed it also, who could say.