..".An adventure-filled journey... In spite of its references to hard academic science, Cretaceous Dawn is a first-class adventure story, an effortless read as engaging as vintage Jules Verne. The descriptive prose is both evocative and illuminating, and the plot has enough twists and cliffhangers to keep readers traveling on to the inevitable conclusion."--Natural History "The Grazianos, sibling scientists, combine speculation and science in a compulsively page-turning time-travel adventure. A physics experiment gone awry sends four people and a dog 65 million years into the past. Day-to-day survival among creatures like giant croc Deinosuchus and T. rex becomes a priority, even as the group of stranded scientists realizes that getting home involves a 1,000 mile trek across the amazing landscape of Hell Creek. Details about plants, animals and insects in the distant past set the stage for a tight, scientifically plausible plot with a wholly unexpected twist that will keep readers guessing."--Publishers Weekly A long-extinct beetle appears in a physics lab. Four-and-a-half people and a dog are hurled 65 million years through time, to the Age of the Dinosaurs, and paleontologist Julian Whitney and his companions have only one chance for rescue. Meanwhile in the lab, police chief Sharon Earles must solve the mystery of why half a body remains where five people had just been. Physicists try to determine what went wrong but can they fix the vault in time to retrieve the missing people--and do they want to? "A rip-snorting good yarn. . . . Cretaceous Dawn's strength is its ability to transport the reader back in time to truly experience the Cretaceous."--Dinosaur News "Rendered with a clarity and vividness that gives the novel its richness, Cretaceous Dawn is plain fun, and educational at that. Short of time travel, this is as close as you'll ever get to the grim, predatory world of the Cretaceous."--Falmouth Enterprise "From the Inland Sea to the infant Rocky Mountains, we see the entirety of a long-gone ecosystem. The authors' scientific knowledge gives the story, and the giant creatures it is centered around, a realism that is immensely entertaining."--Prehistoric Times " The era is] described so vividly the reader forgets that no human overlapped with a dinosaur in the sands of time."--The Cape Cod Chronicle Lisa M. Graziano, PhD, is a freelance editor and writer living on Cape Cod, Mass. She spent ten years as a professor of oceanography in Woods Hole, Mass. before turning to a full-time writing career. Michael S. A. Graziano, PhD, is a neuroscientist at Princeton University. He is the author of both fiction and nonfiction.
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天哪,我刚刚读完这本小说,简直是手不释卷!作者对细节的把握简直令人叹为观止,每一个场景都如同身临其境。尤其是在描述那些远古生物的生活习性时,那种细腻入微的观察和科学的严谨性交织在一起,让整个故事充满了张力。我尤其喜欢主角团在面对巨大危机时所展现出的那种近乎绝望却又顽强不屈的精神。他们不是传统意义上的超级英雄,而是充满了普通人的恐惧、挣扎和偶尔闪光的勇气,这使得他们的每一个决定都显得格外真实和沉重。更不用说,故事的节奏控制得非常到位,高潮迭起,让你完全猜不到下一步会发生什么。我时常在想,如果我真的置身于那个时代,我又能坚持多久?这本书成功地将宏大的史诗感和个体的渺小感完美地融合在一起,读完之后,内心久久不能平静,那种对生命本身的敬畏之情油然而生。强烈推荐给所有喜欢探险、历史(或者说史前史)和深刻人性探讨的读者。
评分坦白说,我是一个对时间线和物种演化比较挑剔的读者,但这本书成功地说服了我。它在虚构的世界中构建了一套近乎自洽的逻辑体系,并且忠实地遵循了自己设定的规则,这一点极其难能可贵。我尤其欣赏书中对不同文化群体之间冲突与合作的描绘,那些差异性、误解,以及最终为了共同目标而达成的脆弱联盟,都写得非常细腻和写实。它不是简单的“我们对抗他们”,而是复杂的“我们如何在差异中求生存”。作者的笔触非常细腻,即便是描绘最血腥的场面,也总能点缀出一些微小的、象征希望或人性光辉的细节,使得整体氛围不会陷入纯粹的黑暗。这本书的结构非常扎实,像一座精心搭建的复杂机械,每一个齿轮都咬合得严丝合缝,推动着故事走向一个既在意料之外又在情理之中的终点。阅读体验非常酣畅淋漓,绝对是近年来难得一见的上乘之作。
评分说实话,这本书的叙事手法真是太有意思了。它不是那种平铺直叙的流水账,而是用了大量的倒叙和插叙,将不同时间线的线索巧妙地编织在一起,刚开始看的时候可能会稍微有点摸不着头脑,但一旦你适应了这种叙事节奏,就会发现作者的布局之精妙。那些看似不经意的伏笔,在后半部分突然爆发出惊人的力量,让人忍不住拍案叫绝。我特别欣赏作者在构建世界观上的不遗余力,那个史前世界的生态系统复杂到令人发指,各种物种之间的相互作用,捕食链的微妙平衡,都写得极其考究。读这本书的体验,更像是在解一个巨大的、由自然规律和偶然性构成的谜题。而且,这本书的文笔非常富有画面感,读起来一点都不枯燥,即便是描述那些科学概念或地质变迁,也能通过生动的比喻变得清晰易懂。这是一本需要静下心来品味的佳作,适合那些追求智力挑战和深度沉浸式阅读体验的读者。
评分这本书的魅力,很大程度上来自于它那股“不妥协”的劲儿。作者似乎拒绝提供任何廉价的安慰或轻松的结局。他非常坦诚地展示了自然界无情的法则,那种冰冷、残酷、不以人的意志为转移的力量感,被刻画得淋漓尽致。我特别欣赏作者在描绘环境描写时的那种极简主义美学,有时候寥寥数语,就能勾勒出一幅广袤而又充满压迫感的远古图景。与那些充斥着夸张和戏剧化冲突的作品不同,这本书的紧张感更多来自于一种缓慢渗透的、无处不在的威胁。它让你时刻保持警惕,知道任何一个疏忽都可能导致万劫不复。这种真实的代入感,让阅读过程成为了一场精神上的极限拉力赛。看完后,你会觉得自己的心肺功能都得到了一次极大的锻炼。绝对是那种值得拥有实体书,没事就翻开看看某个精彩片段的收藏级作品。
评分我得承认,这本书一开始吸引我的是它的名字和那种扑面而来的史诗气息,但真正让我沉迷的,是它对“生存”这一主题的探讨达到了一个近乎哲学的深度。它不仅仅是关于逃亡和对抗,更是关于文明的萌芽、社群的建立,以及在极端环境下,人类(或者说智慧生命)如何定义“人性”。书中对不同角色在压力下的道德选择描绘得入木三分,没有绝对的好人或坏人,只有在特定环境下做出最“合理”反应的个体。每一次艰难的抉择,都让读者忍不住反思自身的价值体系。此外,这本书的语言风格非常成熟老练,充满了古典文学的厚重感,但又不失现代小说的流畅和冲击力。某些段落的措辞精炼到我需要反复阅读才能完全体会其中的深意,这绝对不是那种读过就忘的快餐小说。它会像一个老朋友一样,在你心中留下长久的回响。
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