Dinosaur Planet (Mystery of Ireta #1) -

Anne McCaffrey

Orbit Books

1992

188 páginas

6h 16m

ISBN-13: 9781857230901

On Earth they died out 70 million years ago. But on Ireta they ruled in all their bizarre splendour. The dinosaurs. Relics from a forgotten age, they roamed a planet as mystifying as any in the galaxy, despite its bland appearance. And the expedition sent to explore the planet is trapped there.

THE MISSIONThe Exploratory and Evaluation Corps of the Federated Sentient Planets had sent ARCT-10, with its mixed crew of shipbred and planet-bound technicians, to Ireta to catalogue fauna and flora and search for new energy sources. It was a simple mission. A standard crew.THE PROBLEMKai and his beautiful co-leader Varian, the best xenob-vet in the business, followed all the standard procedures -- but the results of their investigations were totally unexpected. Not only were the planet's creatures larger than anyone had anticipated and the geological finds smaller, but the rescue ship had inexplicably disappeared.THE NIGHTMAREThen suddenly on a world of giant swamp creatures and deadly predators, a curious change had come over many of the members of the ARCT-10 crew... a change that would lead all of them, in one way or another, into the primitive darkness of a future world.