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A novel by [[Fun With Acronyms|Harry Adam Knight]] (a penname of Australian sf author John Brosnan, used for his schlockiest work), written in the [[The Eighties|80's]], some time prior to ''[[Jurassic Park]]''. The novel's story is vastly different from the [[In Name Only]] Roger Corman film. In it, [[Intrepid Reporter|David Pascal]] in Cambridgeshire, England is trying to discover the causes of a recent rash of deaths. The local bigshot, Sir Darren Penward, who collects rare and exotic predators, insists it was a Siberian tiger that escaped from his private zoo. However the lone survivor of one of the attacks, a small boy, claims it was a dinosaur.
A novel by [[Fun with Acronyms|Harry Adam Knight]] (a penname of Australian sf author John Brosnan, used for his schlockiest work), written in the [[The Eighties|80's]], some time prior to ''[[Jurassic Park]]''. The novel's story is vastly different from the [[In Name Only]] Roger Corman film. In it, [[Intrepid Reporter|David Pascal]] in Cambridgeshire, England is trying to discover the causes of a recent rash of deaths. The local bigshot, Sir Darren Penward, who collects rare and exotic predators, insists it was a Siberian tiger that escaped from his private zoo. However the lone survivor of one of the attacks, a small boy, claims it was a dinosaur.


Pascal investigates further (mostly through wooing and ultimately sleeping with Penward's wife, Jane) and discovers Penward's scientists have cloned predatory dinosaurs for him to add to his collection. Inevitably the dinosaurs escape and wreak carnage throughout Cambridgeshire as the local police attempt to battle them.
Pascal investigates further (mostly through wooing and ultimately sleeping with Penward's wife, Jane) and discovers Penward's scientists have cloned predatory dinosaurs for him to add to his collection. Inevitably the dinosaurs escape and wreak carnage throughout Cambridgeshire as the local police attempt to battle them.
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* [[Cassandra Truth]]: David Pascal.
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: David Pascal.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: Tor released a movie tie-in version of the novel to coincide with Corman's film, whose cover, featuring the movie poster artwork, blurts, "[[Blatant Lies|In the Startling Tradition of Jurassic Park]]!"
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: Tor released a movie tie-in version of the novel to coincide with Corman's film, whose cover, featuring the movie poster artwork, blurts, "[[Blatant Lies|In the Startling Tradition of Jurassic Park]]!"
* [[The End - Or Is It?]]: {{spoiler|A mortally wounded Penward escapes with some dinosaur eggs at the end.}}
* [[The End - or Is It?]]: {{spoiler|A mortally wounded Penward escapes with some dinosaur eggs at the end.}}
* [[Friend On the Force]]: Constable Keith Driscoll.
* [[Friend on the Force]]: Constable Keith Driscoll.
* [[Hellish Copter]]
* [[Hellish Copter]]
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Both played straight and averted. Fiona gets killed but her brother Simon is rescued.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Both played straight and averted. Fiona gets killed but her brother Simon is rescued.
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* [[Stock Dinosaurs]]: Subverted. Knight uses a Tarbosaurus instead of a T-rex as the novel's main threat.
* [[Stock Dinosaurs]]: Subverted. Knight uses a Tarbosaurus instead of a T-rex as the novel's main threat.
* [[Storming the Castle]]
* [[Storming the Castle]]
* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: Penward's goons opt not to kill Simon, the little boy that survived the third dinosaur attack, [[Minion With an F In Evil|due to not liking the idea of killing a child]], reasoning no one would believe him.
* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: Penward's goons opt not to kill Simon, the little boy that survived the third dinosaur attack, [[Minion with an F In Evil|due to not liking the idea of killing a child]], reasoning no one would believe him.
** Penward himself [[Would Hurt a Child]] however, and plans to [[Complete Monster|have the boy murdered]]. {{spoiler|Fortunately he's distracted by more pressing matters before he can do so, as the dinos get loose, rendering the issue of the boy moot, and Penward forgets about him.}}
** Penward himself [[Would Hurt a Child]] however, and plans to [[Complete Monster|have the boy murdered]]. {{spoiler|Fortunately he's distracted by more pressing matters before he can do so, as the dinos get loose, rendering the issue of the boy moot, and Penward forgets about him.}}


Revision as of 17:21, 9 April 2014

A novel by Harry Adam Knight (a penname of Australian sf author John Brosnan, used for his schlockiest work), written in the 80's, some time prior to Jurassic Park. The novel's story is vastly different from the In Name Only Roger Corman film. In it, David Pascal in Cambridgeshire, England is trying to discover the causes of a recent rash of deaths. The local bigshot, Sir Darren Penward, who collects rare and exotic predators, insists it was a Siberian tiger that escaped from his private zoo. However the lone survivor of one of the attacks, a small boy, claims it was a dinosaur.

Pascal investigates further (mostly through wooing and ultimately sleeping with Penward's wife, Jane) and discovers Penward's scientists have cloned predatory dinosaurs for him to add to his collection. Inevitably the dinosaurs escape and wreak carnage throughout Cambridgeshire as the local police attempt to battle them.

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