Talk:The Green Buffalo

Dragon's Teeth
The Crichton Estate just posthumously released a novel dealing with the Bone Wars and told from the perspective of a young paleontology student who gets caught in the crossfire between Marsh and Cope. Naturally I thought of this.

Much as I'd love for the creator of Jurassic Park et al to give that subject matter the sci fi treatment, apparently it's straight historical fiction. From the review I read, the protagonist narrowly escapes riding to his doom with Custer and gunfights in Deadwood and all manner of horse opera clichés, but the dinosaurs stay fossilized. So it sounds like it's more along the lines of The Great Train Robbery, which is not a bad thing either.

I can't help being suspicious about this release. According to the estate, when Crichton died he had one finished or nearly finished book ready to go (2009's Pirate Latitudes) and one unfinished manuscript (2011's Micro) which they turned over to a hack writer who tried to jump-start his career the easy way by shamelessly filling the story with sequel hooks that no one ever took up.

Each of those is perfectly believable. But the idea that Crichton had another finished book just sitting around (there's no co-author credited on this one) that went completely unnoticed all these years sounds fishy. I can't help wondering if this is someone else's effort to make a quick buck by slapping a name to be reckoned with onto a counterfeit and giving it a fabricated backstory to attract the curious.

Didn't stop me from buying the book, alas. Turtle Fan (talk) 04:22, May 26, 2017 (UTC)