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      The Dechronization of Sam Magruder

      by George Gaylord Simpson
      Published
      Jan 1996
      Main Genre
      Science Fiction Sci-Fi
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      160
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      This lost novella by the century's most renowned paleontologist has been called the greatest time-travel story in more than one hundred years.

      Vanishing from Earth on February 30, 2162, while working on a problem of quantum theory, research chronologist Sam Magruder is thrown back 80 million years in time. Endowed with the intelligence of a twenty-second-century man, Magruder struggles to survive, feeding on scrambled turtle eggs and diligently recording his observations on a stone-slab diary, even as menacing tyrannosaurus try to gnaw off his limbs.

      Filled with magnificent descriptions of the dinosaurs as only Simpson himself could render them, The Dechronization of Sam Magruder is not only a classic time-travel tale but a philosophical work that astutely ponders the complexities of human existence and achievement.

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      Speculative Fiction

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      Science Fiction

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      Apr 1997 Griffin ISBN13 9780312155148 ISBN10 031215514X
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      First Edition Jan 1996 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312139636 ISBN10 0312139632
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