Day of the Dragonstar Book One of the Dragonstar Series by David Bischoff and Thomas F. Monteleone An artificial Jurassic world spins through space, kilometers long and made to order, build to endure for an eternity. An enticing mystery for the humans of the Heinlein exploratory mission, it holds deadly secrets from the universe’s savage past. INSIDE THE MILES-LONG SPACESHIP IT WAS 160 MILLION YEARS AGO ... Day after artificial day, outwitting the carnivorous saurians that had devoured their shipmates, the two survivors of the Heinlein expedition to the mysterious object known as Artifact One picked their way through the vast, horizonless jungle that filled the hull of the star-traveling terrerium. They did what a man and a woman fighting together to survive usually do: They prayed for rescue. They searched for a way to escape. They fell in love Then, from a rise in the forest, they saw a wall. And something on the wall saw them. THE SENTRY Atop a crumbling rampart stood a sentry, weapon grasped in its four-fingered hand, partly clothed ... its snout instintively twitching at the scent of the man and woman walking toward its city.

A MILES LONG SPACESHIP ON A JOURNEY BETWEEN THE STARS After establishing communications with the sentient dinosaurs aboard the gigantic alien warship Dragonstar, the human exploration forces were ready to reveal their accomplishments to an eager public. THEN DISASTER STRUCK. During a live holovision broadcast, something made the co-operative Saurians go berserk—and begin slaughtering and eating their former friends. At the same moment the Dragonstar's access hatches closed down, imprisoning all aboard. Then, for the first time in centuries, the engines started up...

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...