A starship of dinosaurs...with human cargo. The 160-million-year-old, world-sized starship with its crew of sentient dinosaurs mystified humankind when it entered our solar system. Careers and even governments rose and fell in the fight to board it, explore it, and understand its origin and purpose. Then, in the blink of an eye, it was gone. Only this time there were humans aboard. Men and women lost in hyperspace, allying with the dinosaurs in their mutual fight for survival, trapped between the jungle within the ship...and the unknown horror without. When the ship dropped into "real" space, they were far beyond the edge of the universe - orbiting a planet that was old when Earth was young, in the eerie light of a star that was due to go nova at any moment. And someone - or something - was outside the ship. Wanting in...