2023/087: Dinosaur Summer — Greg Bear

2023/087: Dinosaur Summer — Greg Bear

... the view closing into a tunnel of shock around the gaping mouth of the venator, still drawing back, back, legs splayed, all his muscles tensing like steel bands beneath his gleaming skin. The sun caught the animal’s eyes like twin arcs on a welding torch; he lowered his head and the eyes became pits of night. [p. 176]

Photographer Anthony Belzoni is down on his luck: it's 1947, he's estranged from his wife, and he and his teenaged son Peter are living in a run-down apartment in Brooklyn. Then the National Geographic commissions him to work with the owners of Circus Lothar, the last dinosaur circus. For this is a world in which Conan Doyle's The Lost World was fact, not fiction( Read more... )