Biology in Science Fiction: Free Fiction » Dinosaurs http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:22:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Down on the Farm by Maureen McHugh http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/down-on-the-farm/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/down-on-the-farm/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:56:52 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1586 Title: Down on the Farm

Author: Maureen McHugh

Length: short story

First Publication: Return of the Dinosaurs anthology, 1997

What the Story is About: It’s basically a chicken ranch . . .

Part One • Part Two • Part Three

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/down-on-the-farm/feed/ 0 The Adventure of the Lost World by Dominic Green http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-adventure-of-the-lost-world-by-dominic-green/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-adventure-of-the-lost-world-by-dominic-green/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:52:35 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1422 Title: The Adventure of the Lost World

Author: Dominic Green

Length: short story

First Publication: BBCi Cult Sherlock Holmes Magazine, 2004

What the Story is About: Sherlock Holmes investigates strange animal attacks.

Alternate story link

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-adventure-of-the-lost-world-by-dominic-green/feed/ 0 The Cretaceous Border by Sylvia Kelso http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-cretaceous-border-by-sylvia-kelso/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-cretaceous-border-by-sylvia-kelso/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:17:38 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=984 Title: The Cretaceous Border

Author: Sylvia Kelso

Length: short story

First Publication: Neverlands and Otherwheres, 2008

What the Story is About: “But once, as the stories say, upon a time, something else came in, from some next door or other. Though precisely which door it used… “

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-cretaceous-border-by-sylvia-kelso/feed/ 0 Gator by Robert J. Sawyer http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/gator-by-robert-j-sawyer/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/gator-by-robert-j-sawyer/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:38:41 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=502 Title: Gator

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Length: short story

First Publication: Urban Nightmares anthology, 1997

What the Story is About: A scientist investigates the urban legend about alligators in the sewers and finds the truth is more bizarre than even the tabloids would have you believe.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/gator-by-robert-j-sawyer/feed/ 0 Forever by Robert J. Sawyer http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/forever-by-robert-j-sawyer/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/forever-by-robert-j-sawyer/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:34:46 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=500 Title: Forever

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Length: short story

First Publication: Return of the Dinosaurs anthology, 1997

What the Story is About: Intelligent dinosaurs prepare for the asteroid that will bring their era to a close.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/forever-by-robert-j-sawyer/feed/ 0 Just Like Old Times by Robert J. Sawyer http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/just-like-old-times-by-robert-j-sawyer/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/just-like-old-times-by-robert-j-sawyer/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:31:41 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=497 Title: Just Like Old Times

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Length: short story

First Publication: Dinosaur Fantastic Anthology, 1993

What the Story is About: The mind of a serial killer is transferred to a Tyrannosaurus rex, where he gets to stalk the greatest prey of all.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/just-like-old-times-by-robert-j-sawyer/feed/ 0 The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-lost-world-by-arthur-conan-doyle/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-lost-world-by-arthur-conan-doyle/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:02:53 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=339 Title: The Lost World

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Length: novel

First Publication: 1912

What the Story is About: An expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. (from Wikipedia)

You can download an audiobook version of the story at Project Gutenberg.

Related posts at the Biology in Science Fiction blog: In Search of the Lost World; What if dinosaurs still roamed the Earth?

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-lost-world-by-arthur-conan-doyle/feed/ 0 Out of Time’s Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/out-of-times-abyss-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/out-of-times-abyss-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:46:19 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=331 Title: Out of Time’s Abyss

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Length: novel

First Publication: Blue Book Magazine, 1918 (published in novel form in 1963

What the Story is About: The third book in Burroughs’ Caspak trilogy, it continues the story of The Land That Time Forgot and The People That Time Forgot, in which WW I-era men are trapped on a South Seas island teeming with prehistoric fauna. “It connects the previous two installments, bringing in characters introduced in each. Burroughs completes the revelation of his lost world’s unique biological system, only hinted at in the previous installment, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system forms a thematic element serving to unite the three otherwise rather loosely linked Caspak stories.” (from Wikipedia)

You can download an audiobook version of the story at Librivox.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/out-of-times-abyss-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/feed/ 0 The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-people-that-time-forgot-edgar-rice-burroughs/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-people-that-time-forgot-edgar-rice-burroughs/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:38:09 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=323 Title: The People That Time Forgot

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Length: novel

First Publication: Blue Book Magazine, 1918 (published as a novel in 1963)

What the Story is About: The second book of Burroughs’ Caspak trilogy, and a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. It follows the continuing adventures of the men stranded on a South Seas island full of prehistoric fauna. “Burroughs continues the revelation of his lost world’s unique biological system, only hinted at in the previous installment, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system forms a thematic element serving to unite the three otherwise rather loosely linked Caspak stories.” (from Wikipedia)

You can download the audiobook version at Project Gutenberg. or at Librivox.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-people-that-time-forgot-edgar-rice-burroughs/feed/ 0 The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-land-that-time-forgot-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-land-that-time-forgot-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:27:36 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=319 Title: The Land That Time Forgot

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Length: novel

First Publication: 1918

What the Story is About: The first novel in Burroughs “Caspak” trilogy. In this “lost world” story set during WWI, a U-boat crew is stranded on an island teeming with prehistoric fauna, including dinosaurs and Neanderthals. “Burroughs adds his own twist by postulating a unique biological system for his lost world, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system is only hinted at in The Land That Time Forgot; presented as a mystery whose explication is gradually worked out over the course of the next two novels, it forms a thematic element serving to unite three otherwise rather loosely linked stories.” ( From Wikipedia).

You can also download the audiobook version from Project Gutenburg or at Librivox.

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