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While published in 1983 it starts out as a solid three star throwback in the style of 1950s YA by Bradbury or Heinlein. A cast of Mary Sue characters compromised of a time traveler from Earth and two kidnapped kids from an improbable Mars meet in Cretaceous era Earth.What follows is their survival story as they evade kidnappers and carnivorous dinosaurs. What brings it down to a two is the time travel twist where they throw in a little pedophile “romance”. This is covered up with a little conven...
Eridahn is a delightful tale of time-travel and possible paradox, inter-dimensional aliens, dinosaurs, and kidnapped Martian royalty. It's an expanded version of a novelette from If Magazine that appeared in 1964; the novel was published in 1983, and is set in 1998 where Jim Carpenter operates a time-machine and becomes the protectors of the prince and the princess who won't talk to him because he's a commoner. It would be classified as a YA book these days, but I found it to be a very engaging
Another time-travel adventure I recall from my youth, this one featuring a dinosaur-shaped time machine, a curious bit of paradox, and inter-dimensional aliens. I must have grabbed it from the store just because it had a dinosaur on the cover. I would love to have a copy of this book again.
Not his best work, but a fun novel about time traveling.Jim Carpenter is a time traveler. He's not a glamorous one though, because he drives triceratops-shaped tank and does nature holo-photography. One day he is sent back to check on why a human skeleton was found in the fossil record long before it should even exist. He finds two young children, who claim to be Mars royalty. The only thing is, the kids are hunted, and now a very unlikely protector has to save them.There's a little sweetness to...
This is one of those books whose plot haunted me for years. Basically a fun and silly sci-fi novel involving time travel, dinosaurs, martians, kidnapping and romance. I'd forgotten the name and the author and only recently rediscovered it, much to my happiness.
