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This apocalyptic vision, another departure from routine mystery, sports a lengthy cast of characters but focuses intermittently on teenage and college-age kids. Because they are more resilient than some, the young learn to deal with sudden changes that occur throughout the planet. Various locations suddenly disappear amid sonic booms and terrible storms, only to be replaced with strange terrains, out-of-place climates, weird plants, and even dinosaurs. The president's science adviser theorizes about "time displacement," but doomsayers have their own ideas. This suspenseful, fantastic first novel may attract an audience because of the dinosaurs.
Adams
Dinos are stomping all over the fall fiction list: Crichton's upcoming Lost World, Bakker's Raptor Red and now this overblown tale in which wrinkles in time send the giant lizards into our near future. David's first novel is set up like a classic disaster yarn: he follows several individuals and groups as they grapple with the approach, onslaught and aftermath of the cataclysmic ``time wave'' a culmination of all those nuclear tests that exchanges parcels of today's land, including much of Manhattan, with their prehistoric counterparts. That's a nifty premise, but David works it ragged. His human cast is too large the U.S. president, scientists, tourists, bikers, gang members, a little old lady, a dysfunctional family out sailing, etc. to inspire sympathy with anyone in particular. His dinos, with a couple of exceptions, are too hazily drawn to inspire the sort of fear or awe that Crichton's did in Jurassic Park. There's far-fetched science too, as a frantic White House comes up with a solution that could just lead to doomsday. Despite a few memorable moments (most notably, that little old lady domesticating a duckbill dino with bags of sugar) it's all too much, as overbearing as the ancient beasts themselves. (Oct.)
Bernstein
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