![]() The society of feathered dinosaurs is described rather well. ![]() The action then shifts to the Cretaceous, 66 million years before. Unfortunately there is an unexpected coup de tat, and they are arrested as spies. It begins in the jungles of Thailand with a group of archaeologists, who are digging up a maniraptoran skeleton. This central idea has become the basis for a whole novel. When the fateful meteor is sighted, a small percentage of this society makes a difficult choice in order to survive the hellscape that the impact will cause. The therapod dinosaurs interacted primarily through scent, having built a society and ordered the sum of their knowledge via smell. Essentially it posited a brilliant view of a doomed civilization facing extinction at the height of the Cretaceous. Living Memory started life as a short story. ![]() This book sprawls across several genres, never quite settling into the mould of any one of them. That being said, I do like the occasional foray into the harder genres: SF you can strike sparks off of, westerns redolent with the reek of horses and leather, and even the occasional piece where the characters journey across the world in a desperate race to stop utter disaster. In other words, give me cosy mysteries or give me death. ![]() My favorite spectator sport is cricket, and I like long slow meandering walks. ![]() I’m not usually given to reading action adventure novels. ![]()
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