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Re: Phil Currie and Burroughs?(joke)
What about the T. rex-as-a-scavenger short stories?
Jean-Michel ;-]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Bigelow" <bigelowp@juno.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: Phil Currie and Burroughs?
> Didn't Jim Kirkland briefly do something in the Sci-Fi realm?
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> Of course, there's Bakker too......
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> On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:56:04 -0800 Adrienne Mayor <afmayor@aol.com>
> writes:
> > Other paleontologists have published fiction on lost worlds inhabited
> >
> > by dinosaurs:
> >
> > besides George Gaylord Simpson's well-known, posthumous short story,
> >
> > the late Canadian fossil track specialist William A. S. Sarjeant
> > published several novels about lost worlds of living dinos, under
> > the
> > name "Anthony Swithin" (his middle names). Sarjeant also published
> >
> > articles on geology in fiction, such as Arthur Conan Doyle and
> > Tolkien.
> >
> > The Russian paleontologist Ivan A. Efremov, who discovered
> > Tarbosaurus bataar in the the Gobi in the 1940s, wrote a sci-fi
> > novel
> > called "Shadow of the Past" (1953), featuring fossil hunters who
> > find
> > a cave wall covered in resin that had acted as a natural
> > photographic
> > film, capturing images of the living Tarbosaurus.
> >
> > and of course, don't forget the Turok, Son of Stone comics, about
> > Plains Indians trapped in a lost valley of dinosaurs, in the
> > 1950s-60s
> >
> > On Feb 11, 2006, at 11:22 AM, David Krentz wrote:
> >
> > I suppose I shouldn't be surprised though, seeing as so many of
> > us
> > love the same things. You know, like those lost worlds inhabbited
> >
> > by dinosaurs ?
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