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Boundary / Eric Flint & Ryk E. Spoor.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flint, Eric.
- Spoor, Ryk E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fossils--Fiction.
- Fossils.
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 457 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Riverdale, NY : Baen, [2006]
- Summary:
- What is a paleontologist doing on Mars? Pushing her boundaries. ... Problematica, n: a term used in paleontology to refer to fossils that appear to be either of unknown taxonomic origin, or whose occurrence in the location they are found contradicts current beliefs of the field. The find was made by a teenager. A "funny fossil" no one had seen before out in the middle of the Arizona desert. And right in the middle of controversy: the strangely shaped fossil could help explain one of the greatest mysteries of Earth's past, the great die-off at the KT boundary. It warranted a big dig, one that could lead to the mother lode, and professional immortality. But what Dr. Helen Sutter didn't realize was that it would take her all the way to Mars. ...
- Notes:
- Illustration by Kurt Miller.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 281846
- ISBN:
- 1416509321
- 9781416509325
- OCLC:
- 972230607
- Publisher Number:
- 1205596 Science Fiction Book Club
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