The Doctor and the Dinosaurs (A Weird West Tale)
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (515 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616148616 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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His Kirinyaga series, with sixty-seven major and minor awards and nominations to date, is the most honored series of stories in the history of science fiction. . The author of the Starship series, the John Justin Mallory series, and the Weird West Tales, he has published over seventy novels and more than two hundred fifty short stories and has edited over forty anthologies. Mike Resnick (Cincinnati, OH) has won an impressive five Hugos and
Lots of fun. Doc Holliday is next door to death, finally about to succumb to the tuberculosis that has slowly been withering him away. From Booklist Resnick’s thrilling alternate-history/steampunk/western-adventure series rolls merrily along. Doc’s assignment is to keep the men from being killed by Comanche warriors (Geronimo doesn’t want the incident to jeopardize a treaty, which he brokered, between the Comanche and the U.S.). --David Pitt . Geronimo, the great Apache medicine man, comes to Doc with an offer: Geronimo will restore Doc to health if Doc will go to Wyoming, where two warring paleontologists are desecrating tribal burial grounds in their search for dinosaur bones. The author uses real history—the paleontologists Cope and Marsh really did dig in Wyoming at that time, and they really did hate each other—as a jumping-off point for a thrilling f
They are venting their displeasure on two white men who are desecrating tribal territory in Wyoming. Doc Holliday lies in bed in a sanitarium in Leadville, Colorado, expecting never to leave his room again. Renegade Comanche medicine men object to the newly-signed treaty with Theodore Roosevelt. He offers Doc one year of restored health in exchange for taking on this mission.Welcome to the birth of American paleontology, spearheaded by two brilliant men, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, two men whose genius is only exceeded by their hatred for each other's guts. Now, with the aid of Theodore Roosevelt, Cole Younger, and Buffalo Bill Cody, Doc Holliday must save Cope and Marsh not only from the Comanches, not only from living, breathing dinosaurs, but from each other
monty burnham said Two Stars. Boring. Sorry but it is almost a repeat of the previous books.with dinosaurs. Doc Holliday and Dinosaurs--Great Combinations! Book Review: The Doctor and the Dinosaurs by Mike ResnickDoc Holiday is dying in a Leadville, Colorado sanatorium when he gets a visit from Geronimo. The Apache shaman offers Holiday a year of life for aid in helping stop two paleontologists from digging up the Comanche burial ground.Professors Cope and March are bitter rivals who feel they have a right to dig anywhere as long as it produces dinosaur bones. But Geronimo tells Holiday that if the two scientists do not stop the Comanche shamans will resurrect the dinosaurs to destroy the intruders. "One book in the series too long" according to Henry L. Lazarus. Mike Resnick has the fourth of a fun series about the old west with magic from Indian medicine men. Geronimo comes to the dying Doc Holliday and restores him to partial health so he can intervene in the famous Bone Wars between Edward Cope and Charles Marsh who in our world fought and bickered over dinosaur fossils and advance the field of Paleontology. The problem is that they are disturbing Comanche burial grounds and Geronimo is afraid the Comanche medicine men will create real beasts. Of course in the fight between The Doctor and the Dinosau