Re: before Crichton

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, James Farlow wrote:

> Does anybody have the citation for a rather clever little SF story that 
> anticipated Crichton's _Jurassic Park_ in having a dinosaur 
> reconstructed from DNA? The story was called "Paleontology: an 
> Experimental Science", or something like that. It was written as a 
> series of GSA abstracts, and part of the fun was that each successive 
> abstract had one fewer author, due to "lab accidents" with the 
> resurrected dinosaur.

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/atmoviedna.htm
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There's a truly delightful story in the August, 1974 issue of Analog 
science fiction magazine called Paleontology: An Experimental Science by 
Robert R. Olsen. The author seems to be using a pseudonym but is clearly 
intimately familiar with geology. The story contains so many elements that 
occur in the two Jurassic Park films that I really wonder if there's a 
connection. The story even ends with the reconstructed T-Rex getting loose 
in San Diego!
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