The Homecoming
	Author(s):	Longyear, Barry B.
	Publisher:	Millennium Books
	Date:	2002
	ISBN:	0-595-21309-X
	Cause:	Space Exploration
	Creatures:	Extinct Reptiles
	Submitted by:	Mike Riley (03/30/05)
Exerpt: "The hands struck out, and Baxter ducked. He turned, grabbed the wing chair and threw it at the Nitolan. Deayl swatted it away, splintering it, and smashing the transceiver. Before the pieces hit the deck, Baxter reached the panel controlling the iris and slapped it with both hands. "Simdna! For God's sake, Simdna!" As the iris opened, Baxter felt Deayl's hands encircling his chest, the long claws plumping through his ribs deep into his lungs."
Reviews: No published professional reviews found. (Mike Riley)

2 Scars

My Opinion: "Rodney Dangerfield meets Raptor Red.", kind of sums this one up. This is one of the most bizarre books involving dinosaurs and humans I have ever read. Space traveling dinosaurs return to Earth in their space ships to reclaim the planet they abandoned 65 million years ago. I can handle the “space traveling dinosaurs” thing as the novel, “Star Trek: First Frontier” did a very good job with this scenario. But this book, well if you read my excerpt, you just read all of the “Nature on the Rampage” there is. This is not a bad book by any means but …., you be the judge.

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