Caitlin R. Kiernan. Used. Fine condition. First edition.
In 1989, the US government becomes aware of a strange ribbon of light pulsating in the skies above the freezing, desolate plains of Harding County, South Dakota, a ribbon of light that proves to be a portal to one specific moment in time, sixty-six million years in the past. Not very long before an immense asteroid collided with the earth, ending the world of the non-avian dinosaurs. This one moment in the distant past becomes a place that can be visited, observed, studied, even exploited by corporations and big-game hunters.
A paleobotanist arrives on the shore of shallow sea in South Dakota, and though she’s only come to study extinct plants, soon she will come face to face with one of the most terrifying creatures inhabiting this world.
In the tradition of Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder,” Caitlín R. Kiernan draws on their expertise as a paleontologist and geologist to recreate a vanished era, then shrouds it in modern-day conspiracy and espionage.