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Click for larger imageEmster Comments: Chet and Sue thought they’d save fuel by taking the lizard to town, but now they need to find someplace to park where it can’t eat other mall customers
Published 1993
(Average: 6.71 out of 10)
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Emster Comments: Chet and Sue thought they’d save fuel by taking the lizard to town, but now they need to find someplace to park where it can’t eat other mall customers
Published 1993
(Average: 6.71 out of 10)Loading...
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August 2nd, 2022 at 12:19 pm
Jurassic Parking Lot.
August 2nd, 2022 at 12:35 pm
Randolph Scott never had a ponytail.
August 2nd, 2022 at 2:44 pm
Wow. That’s an even worse cover than the one on the NEL edition, which is no mean feat.
August 2nd, 2022 at 3:15 pm
If we’re talking “DNA Cowboys”, shouldn’t this be their “Last Strand”?
August 2nd, 2022 at 3:50 pm
They obviously had some cowboys in to build that loft extension.
August 2nd, 2022 at 4:03 pm
@Tor – GSS!
August 3rd, 2022 at 12:19 am
I see plenty of cowboys, but no DNA. Yes, I know it’s microscopic, but you’d think the old double helix could be represented somewhere.
Click on the author tag for more terribleness, some related to this.
@Max: I dunno if it’s worse than the British version. At least this one has cowboys pictured, and presumably the dino is a product of DNA work.
Books are better if they have dinos on the cover.
August 3rd, 2022 at 1:24 am
I read this decades ago, and still remember some of the plot points. The thing I’ve never been sure about: was this a sequel to another book about the DNA Cowboys?
August 3rd, 2022 at 3:13 am
Whoopee ti yo yo, get along li’l chromosomes.
August 3rd, 2022 at 3:50 am
Lizard rider has a smattering of cowboy smarts. Not wearing spurs while riding something that can eat you.
August 3rd, 2022 at 4:14 am
I looked to see if the book at least had a ‘Clone Ranger’ gag: apparently not, but a Star Wars spin off wth that name (I know, it’s hard to keep up with all of it) has a character called ‘Farren’, so someone thought it.
August 3rd, 2022 at 4:35 am
Rather abrupt transition from what looks like desert waste [1] to full Bladerunner Urbanism there: apparently in the Future, There Are No Suburbs.
[1] Or maybe they just really need to sweep the parking lot.
@GSS ex-noob: same way comics are improved by having a gorilla on the cover?
August 3rd, 2022 at 5:57 am
@fred
I don’t know. I think I’d want a more substantial bridle on something that can not just eat you but can do it in a couple of gulps.
August 4th, 2022 at 12:20 am
“Cowboys”? I see one, at least one that’s instantly identifiable as a cowboy (hat, etc.). I see three military types with their bandoliers over their shoulders and non-cowboy boots….
August 4th, 2022 at 1:34 am
@Lars of Mars: Yes. Click the author’s name and an even worse cover will be revealed to you.
@Bruce: If you’ve a dino and a gorilla, is it awesome x2, or awesome squared? Or is it just Godzilla vs. King Kong?
@Hammy: I guess Chad and Sue on the dino are a cowboy and cowgirl, or maybe Sue’s in drag, which makes two cowboys.
The military folks are the nothing which can’t stop the DNA Cowboys. Or maybe the mall cops guarding against one or more DNA Cowpokes and their carnivorous critter. If it’s not a service dog, you can’t bring it into the mall. Wouldn’t want the mighty steed to rampage through the food court.