The Dechronization of Sam Magruder: A Novel
Simpson, George Gaylord; Burns, Joan Simpson
Language: English
Published by St Martins Pr, 1996
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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The book has been read and is in good readable condition with visible wear on the cover and possibly some noticeable writing on the pages. Possible book foxing. Jacket is in good condition with no tears. Light to moderate rubbing.
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- Title
- The Dechronization of Sam Magruder: A Novel
- Author
- Simpson, George Gaylord; Burns, Joan Simpson
- Publisher
- St Martins Pr
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312139632
- ISBN 13
- 9780312139636
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Did Simpson want this time-travel story eventually to be published? Was Sam Magruder Simpson's alter ego, the scientist of his imagination who was able to observe dinosaurs the way they really were?
No one will ever be sure of these answers, but what we do know is that Sam Magruder, a fortyish research chronologist, vanished on February 30, 2162, as he was working on a problem of quantum theory. Thrown back in time eighty million years to the prehistoric Jurassic era, Magruder, endowed with the intelligence of a modern man, discovers that he is the only human being in a valley filled with dinosaurs. Magruder, inventive and resourceful, keeps a stone-slab diary and struggles mightily to survive by feeding on lizards and scrambled turtle eggs, even as menacing tyrannosaurs try to gnaw off his limbs.
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