[Rockhounds] New(ish) book from Eric Flint

[Gary Brown]

The dinosaurs play a very minor, but appropriate, role in the story line.

Best thing about the book:

Hard science, and NO stupid mistakes.

Gcb

PS.  Hmmm... No 'nilla pudding.  There are some good food scenes, though.
PPS.  Raisins in vanilla pudding???  Are you nuts?  Those things look like
rabbit droppings.
PPPS.  Feedback in a computer-based test I wrote many years ago when a
person answered a question on coprolites incorrectly:  "Don't be absurd,
that's a fossilized turd!" 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Axel Emmermann [mailto:axel.emmermann at pandora.be] 
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 12:01 PM
> To: gbrown at catspaw-minerals.com; 'Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A 
> mailing list for rock and gem collectors'
> Subject: RE: [Rockhounds] New(ish) book from Eric Flint
> 
> 
> > Let's see... Paleontologists digging in Montana, pretty women, K-T 
> > boundary, fossils, aliens, martial arts, spies, NSA agents, space 
> > flight, mars...
> > What's not to like?
> 
> If there's vanilla pudding with raisins in it I'll buy the book...
> I thought that after "Jurassic park", "Jurassic Sequel" and 
> "The Son of Jurassic Park" the subject had been somewhat 
> exhausted ;-))) It still amazes me how people are fascinated 
> by dinosaurs. The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural History 
> has recently restored their world famous collection of 
> iguanodons and housed them in a brand new setting. As a 
> result there was so much public attention that people had to 
> be warned by radio and TV that waiting time at the ticket 
> sales had surpassed 3 hours.
> 
> Axel
> 
> --If coprolites had been named crappolites, more people would 
> know what they
> are.--