Dragonstar Destiny

Dragonstar #3

by David Bischoff, Thomas F. Monteleone

A starship of dinosaurs...with human cargo.
The 160-million-year-old, world-sized starship with its crew of sentient dinosaurs mystified humankind when it entered our solar system. Careers and even governments rose and fell in the fight to board it, explore it, and understand its origin and purpose.

Then, in the blink of an eye, it was gone. Only this time there were humans aboard. Men and women lost in hyperspace, allying with the dinosaurs in their mutual fight for survival, trapped between the jungle within the ship...and the unknown horror without.

When the ship dropped into "real" space, they were far beyond the edge of the universe - orbiting a planet that was old when Earth was young, in the eerie light of a star that was due to go nova at any moment.

And someone - or something - was outside the ship. Wanting in...

Genres: Science Fiction

216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

aka Mark Grant (with Bruce King), Brad Quentin (with Terry Bisson)

Born in Washington D.C. and now living in Eugene, Oregon, David Bischoff writes science fiction books, short stories, and scripts for television. Though he has been writing since the early 1970s, and has had over 80 books published, David is best known for novelizations of popular movies and TV series including the Aliens, Gremlins, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and WarGames.

Reviews

[Arun · Rating 1 out of 5]

Poorly written speculative fiction filled with racist, Islamophobic, and misogynistic tropes. The main characters are largely odious to the point I was rooting for the carnivorous dinosaurs.

[Ronald Spitzer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Third book of the trilogy and the characterization continues to be logical and well done. Fitting end to the trilogy, but I suspect another dramatic reaction story for when they return to earth would be logically next. As far as I know, nothing was ever written with that in mind. Nice trilogy.

[Thomas Knowles · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a new release from Event Horizon EBooks, an e-book reprint of the original 1989 Ace paperback edition. Note that the rating is posted by the publisher.