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Paperback Details
  • 05/2017
  • 978-1681143323
  • 130 pages
  • $20.00
Hardcover Details
  • 05/2017
  • 978-1681143330
  • 130 pages
  • $35.00
Ebook Details
  • 05/2017
  • 978-1681143347
  • 130 pages
  • $2.99
Howard Robertson
Author
Love in the Cretaceous

Adult; General Fiction (including literary and historical); (Market)

Love in the Cretaceous takes place in a dinosaur park in Oregon a hundred years in the future. Ted Beebe has lost the love of his life and must suddenly find his way alone in old age. He finds young people to take the place of his wife and himself in assuring the survival of Cretaceous World, the park his wife and he created. Global warming has proceeded as predicted, and the fate of Homo sapiens has become obviously uncertain. People come to see the genetically engineered recreations of dinosaurs and are made more aware of humanity’s own vulnerability to extinction. Ted succeeds in creating a new family structure whose three generations will guide the park through the immediate future. He also keeps alive his wife’s memory while coping with the challenges of the uncertain future.
Reviews
booklife

Plot: This novel features a rollicking plot—although quite a few plot threads are never resolved. Still, the primary plot is wacky enough to work.

Prose: The prose is solid, simple, and peppered with surprising sex scenes to keep readers turning pages. There's also fascinating information about dinosaurs that's cleverly woven into the book.

Originality: Although its subject matter has been covered before, this novel has enough twists and turns and zany characters to feel fresh and engaging.

Character Development: The author presents an offbeat, memorable, and (mostly) believable cast of characters.

Seattle Review of Books

In Robertson’s Oregon one hundred years from now, dinosaurs roam the earth, while humans are busy cutting off their own exit. Robertson, a notable local poet and fiction writer, throws his readers into the soup with love, loss, and extinction (and a very sinister cameo); the thrills in this one are metaphysical as well as primordial, as you’ll see when you dip in.

News
10/24/2017
LOVE IN THE CRETACEOUS Named Book Excellence Award Finalist

Howard W. Robertson's new novel, LOVE IN THE CRETACEOUS, has been named a Book Excellence Award Finalist.

Formats
Paperback Details
  • 05/2017
  • 978-1681143323
  • 130 pages
  • $20.00
Hardcover Details
  • 05/2017
  • 978-1681143330
  • 130 pages
  • $35.00
Ebook Details
  • 05/2017
  • 978-1681143347
  • 130 pages
  • $2.99
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