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Montana, 1876. Othniel Charles Marsh, one of the two top paleontologists in the world, in the state's Judith River fossil beds, doing what he does best: digging up the bones of dinosaurs. Montana is a big state, but Marsh can't rest easy. Edward Drinker Cope, his biggest rival, and the other top paleontologist in the world, is also in the area, and there simply aren't enough bones for both of them, leading them to play dirty tricks. And time itself is against them: the fierce snows of winter are on the way and, rumor has it, so is Sitting Bull, fresh from his triumph at little Big Horn.Another complication: two foreign scientists are also competing for the bones. One says he's from Sweden, the other says he's from Iceland. One of them enlists Cope to help him, while the other befriends Marsh.Marsh and Cope don't want the fossils to leave the country, so they decide to bury the hatchet and work together to outwit the visitors. This turns out to be harder than they thought. The foreign scientists possess amazing technology, but that's because they are much more foreign than they claimed. They don't just want to take the bones out of the country -- they're fighting over who will get to take them clean off the planet.... . . a political thriller set in an alternate USA . . . humor . . . plenty of action. . . . -- Locus. . . a humorously insightful parody of human nature. His writing style is fantastic and his puns with names are a delight. . . . -- Southern Book Trade… (altro)
nessreader: Bone Wars is massmarket fiction about rogue paleontologists in mid 19th century America, and Traill's biography is a horrified modern archaeologist discovering the clay feet of the father of his profession, how rampant his ego and how many rules he broke in the name of glory. The egotism and destructive flamboyance of the fictional versions of Cope and Marsh in Bone Wars, pioneers in their field, echo Schliemann.… (altro)
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A sometimes plodding story of the real-life paleontologists Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope competing for bones in Montana in 1876. They come across two competing aliens who, for reasons not entirely clear (a war fought between aliens, genetic experiments, splicing genetic material into Earth’s organisms, racial pride?) who want the bones. They decide to foil their efforts. Another real paleontologist, Charles Sternberg, is a character as is Sitting Bull.
There is a little, and not often successful, attempt at wry humor and a bit of genuine tragedy when the lover of Al Stilson aka Alice Stilson, Sitting Lizard aka George Burgess, is shot and killed. Still, not really very interesting as a weird western, a story of alien intrigue and technology, or fossil hunting. ( )
Montana, 1876. Othniel Charles Marsh, one of the two top paleontologists in the world, in the state's Judith River fossil beds, doing what he does best: digging up the bones of dinosaurs. Montana is a big state, but Marsh can't rest easy. Edward Drinker Cope, his biggest rival, and the other top paleontologist in the world, is also in the area, and there simply aren't enough bones for both of them, leading them to play dirty tricks. And time itself is against them: the fierce snows of winter are on the way and, rumor has it, so is Sitting Bull, fresh from his triumph at little Big Horn.Another complication: two foreign scientists are also competing for the bones. One says he's from Sweden, the other says he's from Iceland. One of them enlists Cope to help him, while the other befriends Marsh.Marsh and Cope don't want the fossils to leave the country, so they decide to bury the hatchet and work together to outwit the visitors. This turns out to be harder than they thought. The foreign scientists possess amazing technology, but that's because they are much more foreign than they claimed. They don't just want to take the bones out of the country -- they're fighting over who will get to take them clean off the planet.... . . a political thriller set in an alternate USA . . . humor . . . plenty of action. . . . -- Locus. . . a humorously insightful parody of human nature. His writing style is fantastic and his puns with names are a delight. . . . -- Southern Book Trade
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A sometimes plodding story of the real-life paleontologists Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope competing for bones in Montana in 1876. They come across two competing aliens who, for reasons not entirely clear (a war fought between aliens, genetic experiments, splicing genetic material into Earth’s organisms, racial pride?) who want the bones. They decide to foil their efforts. Another real paleontologist, Charles Sternberg, is a character as is Sitting Bull.
There is a little, and not often successful, attempt at wry humor and a bit of genuine tragedy when the lover of Al Stilson aka Alice Stilson, Sitting Lizard aka George Burgess, is shot and killed. Still, not really very interesting as a weird western, a story of alien intrigue and technology, or fossil hunting. (