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Lords of Creation
THEY WERE CONCEIVED AT THE DAWN OF TIME…
In the deep Montana shale, paleontologist David Albee makes a remarkable discovery: a metal box containing prehistoric dinosaur eggs — warm, alive… and ready to hatch.
One week later, they are among us – newborn creatures from an age long dead. With uncanny intelligence, they adapt to their new world – driven by some strange, unknown purpose. Curious and hungry, they begin to feed… and grow.
But even as Albee struggles to protect his find from the wrath of government agents and religious fundamentalists, gargantuan invaders from a distant star prepare to make contact – armed with earth-shattering revelations that will destroy humankind’s every notion of nature and science… and God.
In the deep Montana shale, paleontologist David Albee makes a remarkable discovery: a metal box containing prehistoric dinosaur eggs — warm, alive… and ready to hatch.
One week later, they are among us – newborn creatures from an age long dead. With uncanny intelligence, they adapt to their new world – driven by some strange, unknown purpose. Curious and hungry, they begin to feed… and grow.
But even as Albee struggles to protect his find from the wrath of government agents and religious fundamentalists, gargantuan invaders from a distant star prepare to make contact – armed with earth-shattering revelations that will destroy humankind’s every notion of nature and science… and God.
- GenresScience Fiction
256 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1992
17 people want to read
About the author
Tim Sullivan
119 books61 followersTimothy Robert Sullivan was an American science fiction novelist, screenwriter, actor, film director and short story writer.
Many of his stories have been critically acknowledged and reprinted. His 1981 short story "Zeke," a tragedy about an extraterrestrial stranded on Earth, has been translated into German and was a finalist for the 1982 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. "Under Glass" (2011), a well-reviewed semi-autobiographical short story with occult hints, has been translated into Chinese and is the basis for a screenplay by director/actor Ron Ford. "Yeshua's Dog" (2013) was also translated into Chinese.
Many of his stories have been critically acknowledged and reprinted. His 1981 short story "Zeke," a tragedy about an extraterrestrial stranded on Earth, has been translated into German and was a finalist for the 1982 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. "Under Glass" (2011), a well-reviewed semi-autobiographical short story with occult hints, has been translated into Chinese and is the basis for a screenplay by director/actor Ron Ford. "Yeshua's Dog" (2013) was also translated into Chinese.
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June 30, 2012
Published in 1992 by AvoNova (Avon Books)
Tim Sullivan's Lords of Creation is a little novel that tries (and really tries hard) to pull together a whole lot of ideas and one really big one and put them all into a 242 page paperback novel.
It is set in the year 1999. Instead of a successful first Gulf War, America gets bogged in a protracted fight that saps its political vitals at home. The Republicans work with a growing Christian Milleniallist movement who believe that the end of the world as we know it is coming and America should be prepared. A Department of Morality is developed and led by a preacher who attacks all of paleontology as "the work of Satan." Entire university departments are shut down due to a lack of funding and only amateur paleontologists can continue to dig.
A fossil dig in Montana. Photo by SD Public Broadcasting
One group of such amateurs are digging at a remote site in Montana when they find a odd metal box buried deep in a fossil bed, with the fossils. They remove it and sneak into the lab of the local university , quickly have it confiscated by the Department of Morality and when it is opened five dinosaur eggs are discovered inside - they have been held in stasis by the box for millions of years. Soon enough, they are hatched and these dinosaurs are not anything that the paleontologists recognize. They have larger brains, grow incredibly fast and work together very well. Also...
Read more, including the big idea that the author lays out there and fails to explore at: http://dwdsreviews.blogspot.com/2012/...
Tim Sullivan's Lords of Creation is a little novel that tries (and really tries hard) to pull together a whole lot of ideas and one really big one and put them all into a 242 page paperback novel.
It is set in the year 1999. Instead of a successful first Gulf War, America gets bogged in a protracted fight that saps its political vitals at home. The Republicans work with a growing Christian Milleniallist movement who believe that the end of the world as we know it is coming and America should be prepared. A Department of Morality is developed and led by a preacher who attacks all of paleontology as "the work of Satan." Entire university departments are shut down due to a lack of funding and only amateur paleontologists can continue to dig.
A fossil dig in Montana. Photo by SD Public Broadcasting
One group of such amateurs are digging at a remote site in Montana when they find a odd metal box buried deep in a fossil bed, with the fossils. They remove it and sneak into the lab of the local university , quickly have it confiscated by the Department of Morality and when it is opened five dinosaur eggs are discovered inside - they have been held in stasis by the box for millions of years. Soon enough, they are hatched and these dinosaurs are not anything that the paleontologists recognize. They have larger brains, grow incredibly fast and work together very well. Also...
Read more, including the big idea that the author lays out there and fails to explore at: http://dwdsreviews.blogspot.com/2012/...
April 16, 2013
Quite a good story. It is a story of alien giving mankind hope of some better life, because they have done it, so can mankind. The real story is about morals and attitudes and politics. When are morals good or bad?
At some point the story revolves around the possibility of mankind being what he is because of some interference or something by an alien race. Does that make them the devil or Satan of Genesis? This actually a theme from the book in the Bible that a lot of people do not pick up on: Mankind became who he is because of the fall of Adam and Eve.
March 24, 2013
motivational
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