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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 10:36 AM
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Fossils in the fossil record that couldn't be in the fossil record--anyone know of any sf literature
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 10:47 AM
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1. This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but's it a fossil that's definitely out of place.
The first book in James P. Hogan's 5 book Giants series is Inherit the Stars. It begins with the discovery of a 50,000 year old human corpse in a spacesuit on the Moon. It is not a time travel story.
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 10:51 AM
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3. Then how did it get there? :-) Thanks! nt
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 12:21 PM
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6. I'm not saying how it got there...
but it's available online for free! The site webscription.net has some books online for free. Inherit the Stars is one of them. I guess they're hoping that if you read it you'll want to pay for the other four. http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/0345301072/0345301072.htm
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 11:44 AM
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5. 50,000 year old astronaut? Brings to mind this image>
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 12:22 PM
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7. In the book it's in a red spacesuit!
If I remember correctly.
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-10 07:35 AM
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8. Synchronicity - which reminds me of another movie with something ancient uncovered at a London
Edited on Fri Jul-23-10 07:59 AM by leveymg
Underground construction site - Hobbs End, Late 1950s. The creeping unknown, resurrection of the collective unconsciousness, primordial group hive instincts, oozing protoplasmic urges, and all that. Beware the communist menace.

Seen this one? The Quartermass Trilogy? Very Jungian, lots of archetypes, controlled paranoia were all the rage as England started to notice how uncomfortable the deep freeze of the Cold War really was. People just wanted to shed those musty sweaters and woolens they always wore, even in the summer. The Swinging '60s that followed were a lot more fun.



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fadedrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-10 12:27 PM
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9. I read INHERIT THE STARS and liked it..
but I thought there were only 3 books in the series. It's been a while, but it had humans coming from a troubled planet (wars) and the moon was a base while they colonized earth...they returned thousands of years later and were welcomed as our ancestors..

Maybe I should get them again, have forgotten so much, I just remember that I enjoyed the series.

Just remembered something - made a note in my "books I've read" file that says:


HOGAN, JAMES P.
The Minervan Experiment – Inherit the Stars, Meet the Giants, The Giants’ Star (Hunt, Lyn, Caldwell, Danschekker, Garuth, Ganamedes, Lunerians, Ceries, Lamborians)



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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 10:50 AM
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2. not to long ago I read one about a new world being colonized


and one of the scientists said a group of furry people? living there did not come from there because there were no fossils relating to them.

can't remember writer or title - maybe a Elizabeth Moon book - Oath of Loyalty - then again maybe not. (I read a lot)

can I ask why your looking for it/them?
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 10:55 AM
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4. I was reading YOUR INNER FISH and when he was talking about looking for fossils it was real
interesting.

He told about the finding of tiktaalik, a sort of missing link between fish and land animals.





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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-10 07:56 AM
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10. Check out Terry Pratchett's "Strata"
It precedes and is generally separate from his Discworld series, with which you may already be acquainted.

Strata is deeply flawed and suffers from major problems of editing and storytelling, but it's still a good deal of fun. I discovered it back in '91 when I came upon a copy that that had accidentally made it into my local library's stacks; I don't believe that the book had generally been released in the US at that time, and Pratchett himself was nothing like the familiar name in Fantasy that he is today.


Give it a look. It's a very quick read.
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