Imagine, if you will, a world where it is possible
to go back in time to play golf in relative safety while dinosaurs move around
you. That idea is just a small part of the three highly entertaining tales in Carnosaur
Weekend. The three tales in the book are all good ones and highly
entertaining.
“Carnosaur Weekend” opens the book where pterodactyls
fly above the golf course and an allosaurus and a carnosaur are on the
fairways. A RPG is a most helpful weapon in times like this where the
super-rich are being courted by real estate developers selling time shares in
the late cretaceous period. Those running this deal somehow got their hands on
a “Zygma Projector” making their very questionable venture in the timeline
possible. Damon Cole is already working the case in the far distant past and is
under deep cover. Kyler Knightly is being sent in to assist because the deal
has to be shut down before they screw up the past and cause irreversible
changes in the present.
“The Zygma Gambit” comes next and was also published
in the very good The Lizard’s Ardent Uniform and Other Stories. Set a bit
before the preceding story, Kyler Knightly is one of those very special people
known as “dreamers” and is employed by Continuity Inc. Through their dreams the
dreamers have the ability to foresee the future. Kyler has been awakened by a
dream in his own bed in the early morning hours of April 14, 2223. For this to
happen outside of the Precog bays where he normally works means that this dream
was very powerful and definitely coming true. Kyler has to get to his Uncle
Damon Cole and tell him about the dream before Cole goes on his mission.
The final story title “The Worms of Terpsichore” is
very good and highly reminiscent of the classic type of science fiction many of
us grew up on. The spaceship Sallust sent off a one word message via their
orbital beacon and then went radio silent. No further transmission has come
from where they landed on the surface. The one word message also does not make
sense. Clearly, something has happened.
Raj and Thea will go down to the site by way of a lander from their
spaceship known as the Astarte. This type of search and rescue mission is just
part of what they do as members of “Frontier Swift Response.” While this isn’t
at time travel story and Damon Cole and Kyler Knightly are not involved at all,
it is still a very good tale. After all, any story that uses a flame-gun is
automatically pretty good.
Author Garnett Elliot’s bio and ads for other books
from Beat To A Pulp including installments of the excellent Jack Laramie Drifter
Detective series finish out the book.
The three science fiction tales in Carnosaur
Weekend quickly yank readers to a very different time and place. The
multiple characters involved have considerable depth that never gets in the way
of the science fiction adventure. These are adventures when anything is
possible as the dangers are many and one has to stay alive by one’s wits. The
tales of Carnosaur Weekend are all very good ones very much worth your time.
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Kevin R. Tipple ©2014, 2020, 2024
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