Eocene Station

by Dave Duncan

Overview

A new Dave Duncan novel is always a reason to celebrate, and his trademark blend of high adventure, hard science, and wry humour makes Eocene Station a must read.

K. N. ‘Cannon’ Ball and his superstar wife, Tempest, are running for their lives. Cannon has exposed a fraud so huge even heads of government are implicated and determined to keep Cannon from ever testifying. Nowhere is safe, so they step out of time to a research station fifty million years in the past. The dinosaurs died out eons ago and there aren't any people around, so they ought to be safe then, right? Wrong, very wrong!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940154650356
Publisher:	Five Rivers Publishing
Publication date:	08/27/2016
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Originally from Scotland, Dave Duncan has lived all his adult life in Western Canada, having enjoyed a long career as a petroleum geologist before taking up writing. Since discovering that imaginary worlds are more satisfying than the real one, he has published more than forty-five novels, mostly in the fantasy genre, but also young adult, science fiction, and historical. He has at times been Sarah B. Franklin (but only for literary purposes) and Ken Hood (which is short for “D’ye Ken Whodunit?”) His most successful works have been fantasy series: The Seventh Sword, A Man of His Word and its sequel, A Handful of Men, and six books about The King’s Blades. He and Janet were married in 1959. They have one son and two daughters, who in turn are responsible for a spinoff series of four grandchildren. Dave now lives in Victoria, BC.

Editorial Reviews

10/17/2016
Duncan's clumsy and inexplicably archaic science fiction novel transports an investigator from the future into prehistory. Not a man to do things by half measures, auditor Kyle "Cannon" Ball issues a scandalous report in 2084 that leaves governments crumbling and the world economy faltering. But Ball has underestimated his new enemies, who are wealthy, powerful, and willing to commandeer weapons of mass destruction to prevent him from testifying in court. No place is safe, or at least no place on Earth in the present. But Eocene Station, a research station located 50 million years in the past, needs a man with Ball's skills; it has scandals of its own. Unfortunately, when Ball goes to the station, he discovers he has only traded one set of deadly predators for another. Though reminiscent of Robert Silverberg's 1967 classic Hawksbill Station, Duncan's novel fails to live up to its predecessor. Chase scenes, tedious sexual intrigue, gratuitous rape, and interminable attacks by apparently chronically underfed Eocene fauna are matched by unsympathetic protagonists and the lack of an engaging plot. This is no thriller, merely an undercooked mess more suited to the oversexed, sexist 1970s than the modern day. (July)

Publishers Weekly