A Survivor's Guide to the Dinosaur Apocalypse, Episode Eight: "The Elephant Slayer" A Survivor's Guide to the Dinosaur Apocalypse, Episode Eight: "The Elephant Slayer"
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A Survivor's Guide to the Dinosaur Apocalypse, Episode Eight: "The Elephant Slayer‪"‬

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Publisher Description

Welcome to the Big Empty, the world after the Flashback ... a world in which most the population has vanished and where dinosaurs roam freely. You can survive here, if you're lucky, and if you're not in the wrong place at the wrong time--which is everywhere and all the time. But what you'll never do is remain the same--for this is a world whose very purpose is to change you: for better or for worse. So take a deep dive into these loosely connected tales of the Dinosaur Apocalypse (each of which can be read individually or as a part of the greater saga): tales of wonder and terror, death and survival, blood ... and beauty. Do it today ... before the apocalypse comes.

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I looked at the nearest mount, a triceratops head with a broken horn (and a frightful visage), wondering what the circumstances of its death had been. Had it been charging—with the Flashback in its eyes, perhaps—and thus aware that it had an opponent? Or had it been unaware, just mulling its soft grasses, until the bullet entered its brain?

"No," I said, finally, turning my attention back to him. "Can't exactly say as I am. It—it's never seemed like a fair contest to me." I jerked my leg against the chain—twice—to make a point. "Does it to you?"

"Pshaw," he protested. "You speak as if we're enemies. As though this were some contest between you and I, personally. On the contrary, Mr. Hayes. It's a collaboration."

I'm afraid I just stared at him.

At last I said: "Okay—why not. I'll bite. What are you talking about?"

"I am talking, Mr. Hayes …" He stood and began pacing the length of the table. "—about legend. About myth and memory—and the securing of one's place in the natural order of things." He withdrew something from his housecoat as he walked—a pipe; but didn't light it. "Posterity is what I'm talking about. A place at the table of the gods. That, and endings. Inevitabilities."

He paused and struck a match. "One last and penultimate hunt."

He lit the pipe and waved out the match, then turned, slowly, regarding me through a cloud of smoke. "Atatilla, is what I'm talking about. Queen of the Mammoths. The, ah, Leviathan of the Steppes, as they say. I intend to kill her. And you, my lost and wayward friend, are going to help me. By acting as my driver."

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2020
5 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
21
Pages
PUBLISHER
Hobb's End Books
SIZE
267.3
KB

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