ALocus Bestseller

By the award-winning author ofMoving Mars

1947:NOBODY WANTS DINOSAURS ANYMORE

Fifty years after Professor Challenger’s discovery of the Lost World, America’s last dinosaur circus has gone bankrupt . . . leaving a dozen avisaurs, centrosaurs, ankylosaurs, and one large raptor abandoned.

Now a daring expedition plans to do the impossible:return the Jurassic giants to the wild. Two filmmakers, a circus trainer, a journalist, and young Peter Belzoni must find a way to take the dinosaurs across oceans, continents, rivers, jungles, up a mountain that has been isolated for 70,000,000 years . . .

Then if they make it, all they’ll have to do is face all the prehistoric wonders, dangers, and terrors of the Lost World . . .

“I felt I was taking a vicarious and wonderful adventure into the unknown wilds.”

—Ray Harryhausen

“Bear excels in imagining and conveying the pure gritty realism of such an enterprise. . . . Dinos as real as the cat on your lap.”

—Science Fiction Age

“A marvelous book. You will enjoy every minute of DINOSAUR SUMMER.”

—Dan Simmons

“Sure to be popular with young dinosaur lovers, while also managing to be a novel that will not disappoint serious SF readers.”

—Locus

“A tremendous adventure filled with danger and imagination for all ages.”

—Realms of Fantasy

“Greg Bear writes with the authority of someone who has seen dinosaurs with his own eyes. The story rips forward with all the gusto of a classic adventure tale, but it holds the imagination with its accuracy of detail and its truth of characterization.”

—James Gurney, author ofDinotopia

“A skillful blend of old-fashioned adventure and modern literary techniques.”

—Science Fiction Chronicle

“Certain to become a new classic of adventure beyond time.”

—Starflight Reader(Web site magazine)

“With attention to scientific and historical detail, an underlying shadow of humor, and the excitement of a darn good yarn, Greg Bear has once again proven his versatility, creating a rousing tale of high adventure.”

—Dr. Philip J. Currie, curator of dinosaurs, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology

“Full of adventure and surprises. . . . The characters and dinosaurs are likeable and realistically drawn in this fun summer read.”

—VOYA

“An exciting look at a world that might have been. True to Dr. Bear’s skill at hewing to reality while looking beyond for fabulous insights, this book will hold your interest. . . . Recommended.”

—Norm Hartman, Norm’s Notes: Mind to Mind (World Wide Web)

“A love letter to the thunder lizards. . . . Bear delivers an enjoyable yarn.”

—New York Review of Science Fiction

“Greg Bear is a wizard. . . . An intriguing blend of real life and the fantastic in an original novel of riveting adventure. He should be proud to add this one to his catalogue of award-winning fiction.”

—SF Site

“Old-fashioned high adventure, as exciting as Doyle’s originalThe Lost World . . . . It’s certain to spark the imaginations of readers young and old.”

—Middlesex News(NJ)

“Superb. . . exciting . . . a real winner.”

—Southern Pines Pilot(NC)

“Here, in his Lost World, Bear is at his best—prolific, uninhibited, and convincing, and all without breaking a sweat.”

—Stranger(Seattle)

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