Lost in Time
By A. G. Riddle
Even for veteran SF readers used to creative new ways of dealing with crime – like convicts having their memories wiped, or transported to penal colonies on other planets – the idea of criminals being sent back in time hundreds of millions of years so that they can fight it out with dinosaurs in an alternative Earth timeline may seem a bit of a stretch.
Nevertheless, that’s the premise here as Sam Anderson, one of the scientists who developed the patented Absolom time-travel technology, is convicted of the murder of a colleague he’d been dating and then jettisoned to dinosaur-land. As he struggles to survive Triassic Park, his daughter Adeline tries to figure out who framed him back here on Earth Prime, while also working with the other Absolom scientists to develop a machine that can bring her dad back.
Lost in Time is obviously high-concept Hollywood fluff, but if you’re looking for a bubble-gum page-turner with lots of silly action, cliff-hangers, and plot twists it’s hard to beat a time-travel murder mystery with dinosaurs.
Alex on SF 
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Some of the best CGI ever seen.
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I would have eaten something like this up, about 20 years ago. Now, I just feel very meh about it. Part of it is the “written to be turned into a movie” mentality. I HATE that with a passion. It is lazy and sloppy and is a complete slap in the face to every single book reader out there for the author to so cynically use us that way.
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Yeah, that’s definitely the vibe here. Riddle doesn’t bother a whole lot with literary style or building character. And it’s the sort of plot that just screams for being made into a movie with lots of CGI. But it’s a decent beach read.
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I quite liked the look of Dix’s movie clip, dinosaurs need to be seen, not read about. At least in fiction.
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Jurassic Park started out as a novel!
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I didn’t read it, saw the movie though. Great dinosaurs.
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I think I only saw the first one. Was going to try to make it through the whole series at some point. I’m not even sure how many there are now.
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