globe, biologist
again—until very recently.
dol-
phins,
they
were
and
liveliness
reverse
I
was
tracking
fell
but
diary
unfamiliar
coveries on a
librarian had
ago. A very photograph of a man and a boy
slipped from its
living
saurs
of
sea,
recent loss
waters
when
a
recall Will's pulling
feel
a
fins of
waved
back,
and thanking them for our
deliverance.
my
my son
hke
a
parrot
in
response,
seized
were being
set
this
down
language in
made a
though she understood a
main concern was
seemed
/ii^^^l'
Alnce
xkc
them
to
me.
She
his head for words, then said
to
painting ofa dolphin
2. PIPE
3.
for up
6.
LIVING
AND
power
assembly.
9.
lifetime,
a
for a biologist.
—
sojourn at sea.
Huxley's new theo-
infinite amusement,
impassible
coral
register our arrival
time, cooperate.
vehicle to
the
surrounding
farms
almost completely digested.
Copro
bearing
themselves
One fellow
connoisseurs of
Gruyere
or
Camembert.
Simultaneously
idly as
politeness allowed.
and
of
our
slaves: hatching their eggs, hauling their dung. Or
like me,
and
He is bound
Volcaneum, which
now
empty
with
who
C45]
wooden devices
another, I
very
talented
trying for
tried to find
try to
either.
cottage but
and tending
how his
dinosaur.
greetings
Will
Does the
pilots win
responsi-
bility.
Tok
of
eventual
return
home
have
turned
mentioned.
I agreed
with Tok's
to see the
 Breathe
deep.
Seek
descend-
ing
horizon.
The
clear
air,
discovering a means
of escape enabled
us to bear
the
would have offered
we
now
a
serviceable
hoot
gather
even
more
force
overturned
in
rocks
and
gasping
first time.
crossing.
which
city.
They
approached,
Will scrambled
to his
myself that
the vessel. Then,
my life
to the
necessity.
[64]
its
great
of
my
soggy
condition
allowed.
Volcaneum.
it I could
from
eastern brothers
of decay and
 So time
moves on,
but history
repeats itself.
faction.
 Won't
you
at
our
helicoid
geochronograph?
[67]
a
a
with
its
sensitive
fingers
carvings. At
down on brass bells.
Time for
I'm
afraid
you
persist
—
30-year
down
of
mountains,
the
stretching
a
gentleman
us
at
don't
tore
base.
 Dinosaurs
 If
twitching
you
started
with
the
But as he said to me
privately,
of studying
eventually.
place.
shelves
with
eager
eyes,
the Library
of Alexandria
collection
things
from
HUMANS
PERPETUAL
be
erased.
 The
I
We have
wandered past
theaters
small island
how all these different
here
now,
beguiled by
Nallab tells
courses in Outer
time for
my notebook.
March 1
correcting and updating the reports from previous
shipwrecked sailors about
reading scrolls or
sector and
amid
lions first
for a time on
roaring awoke the waters,
Dino-
 Meat-eaters, yes,
careful.
And
now
wooden
I spent
of armor for
bears
sharp-
warriors nor did
fish.
I
pine branch relieved
of creatures
level
—
Styracosaurus guards
ground, a Tyranmsaurus rex
Styracosaurus
trails and a series
rid
them-
selves
ofarmor
by
all
with
the sandbox
the
urgency.
and barked. The
ted
 Step forward,
Bix whispered.
Ai(nai/n&'
so-called Habitat
of
the
group,
of
erosion,
saiiriis,
in
charge
each
sector
displayed
time to study
he
has
Skybax trainer
grown
an oak
Lake,
and
with
tilled
short walk.
the
latest
gossip.
We
of
washed, ropework to be mended
—
of
from
the
thoroughly enjoyed
learned so
much about
Nature, the
the
body's
chemistry
steamed into
alive in
San
Pedro.
When
topia
plenty.
[101]
series suggests great
excitement or irritation.
particularly
a glass globe
see swimming
of
dancing
explained:
artists,
the
brain
drains away
a little
of the
glory of
crowning
Ring Riding
Event, held
is
quadrants of the island. Rings
are
standing in back,
he races past. Together with the skill and instinct of
their steed, the
dinosaurs
is
its ordinary
elephant, diving into a river of bright-hued paint,
and then prancing about with the arrogance of a
camel.
closet, not
of the forest
of a
tried to
sketch, but
I found
myself yelling
celebration.
trio paused
to receive
ing
life
east, where
Will and
Sylvia could
for
Will
about Sylvia
the shell?'
Did he
egg all the time
nor
is
comfortably into human-saurian
a
ridge
City.
We
disem-
barked
at
the
edge,
seeing
stone.
[117]
began short excursions
to
its
place. Could
or, at best,
discreet
myself.
People, it seemed,
out of
respect for
indeed
explo-
the bottom
trail that
expected
scavengers. The
would
find
a
vast
circular
Amu River
carved
channel
vaulted rock
and flanked
by a
fresh,
scented
air
edible.
I
surmised
find
tains of stone, his Skybax was descending, showing
concern for Will by daring to enter
the hallowed
territory of the Pteranodon.
 This is the chance of a lifetime for me, I said to
Will,  the doorway to a whole
new world. I reas-
would
demands on his time. I am poor at expressing the
pride
train-
ing,
I
watched
[131]
It
they
Sylvia
her
hand.
the
Forbidden
trilobites,
nautiloids,
For some
time, slowed by giant piles of
sharp boulders,
around, sometimes
down on
Once we
could,
found overhangs
turn
day, we
white that must be
father might
thoughts.
him
pia becomes reborn, and
[141]
river,
revolving
But the
ruffled and uncer-
from
the
despite
bag
after
kind
screaming of the
typhoon that wrecked
the
the mountain
realized we had
possible and
secured ourselves
the
feel
a
the
reveal a
flies, careless
the
blare
of
in me
from the
via
moved
My
pulse
creature,
large
exclaimed,  It's you
Sylvia and Will.
would be recognized.
—
?
Waterfall City a few days ago.
It's
a
three
 What were
harbor. An odd and
primitive craft was hoisted
of Bix.
The
woman
message
by
signal
tower
Skybaxes, and permission to fly them. A fanfare
sounded in the distance.
the
woman
said,
 do
^MydcU^
the spectacle
unfold as
basket
of
violets
and
a
forever
future.
sure
ofmy
at least
 Congratulations
You
hbrary,
my father, the
first time since I
I said,
 I'm told
—
fantastic discoveries
truth is,
my life
the uni-
fills
me
and the square
glances
they
from
so
long
their heads at
me. But I
see
rewarding, and I
on
Dinotopia
my
rejuven-
ated
me.
which at the moment
Beneath.