An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price.
Until something goes wrong. . . .
All comments (43)
HutchAW
4 Oct 17#1
Worth 49p, good spot :skull_crossbones:
Always fancied reading this, now is the perfect opportunity - thanks!
bassmanbish
4 Oct 17#2
Great book - heat!
eayragt
4 Oct 17#3
Got this in paperback, but at 49p I think I can double up.
Spark to eayragt
5 Oct 17#30
Ditto.
barneyonion
4 Oct 17#4
One of my favourite books. Bargain!
Maevoric
4 Oct 17#5
Thanks op
lpoolm
4 Oct 17#6
Please don't attack me but... is it better then the film?
Maevoric to lpoolm
4 Oct 17#7
Yes, without giving spoilers (and iirc lol) it has a larger scope then the first film, there is stuff in this that they couldn't have done CG wise at the time.
Spark to Maevoric
5 Oct 17#31
I always wondered why the compy's were missing from the film completely. Was that because of technical limitations?
Maevoric to Spark
8 Oct 17#43
Not sure to be honest, I've got the official JP behind the scenes book (sad i know lol) and AFAIK there is no mention of the compys, most of the documentation seems to be around developing the man size or bigger Dino's (particularly memorable was the huge trex animatronic puppet getting the shakes in the rain due to water absorption), so yeah I guess they couldnt yet do small dinos until lost world.
vulcanproject
5 Oct 17#8
It's a good book. It's strange to think it was written at the end of the 1980s.
I like the mention of the multiple Cray X-MP supercomputers at the park which by today's standards have a fraction of the performance of one budget mobile phone lol
shaggy to vulcanproject
5 Oct 17#16
in the film theyre UNIX computers - and the kids knows all about UNIX and manages to hack the gates in seconds! Thats movies for you.
ripkord to vulcanproject
5 Oct 17#21
Haha true - absolute peak performance of the Cray X-MP mentioned in the book is 400 MFLOPS. A decent Exynos chip these days is putting out 200 - 400 GFLOPS (ie 1000x faster).
I know the technology isn't directly comparable due to architecture (probably) but its still mental.
dan5
5 Oct 17#9
Would this be suitable / interesting for a 12 year old?
sumthinfunny to dan5
5 Oct 17#10
I read it when I was 12. Couple of swears and a gruesome death but great read.
timohhhh to dan5
5 Oct 17#12
I read this when I was about 12, and I don't recall it being inappropriate for me. It's a great book from an excellent and very inquisitive / intelligent author (although he had also had some odd views).
EndemicAlarm to dan5
5 Oct 17#19
About on par with the film. It's one of the best page-turners you could buy for just about anybody.
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Until something goes wrong. . . .
All comments (43)
Always fancied reading this, now is the perfect opportunity - thanks!
I like the mention of the multiple Cray X-MP supercomputers at the park which by today's standards have a fraction of the performance of one budget mobile phone lol
A decent Exynos chip these days is putting out 200 - 400 GFLOPS (ie 1000x faster).
I know the technology isn't directly comparable due to architecture (probably) but its still mental.
It's a great book from an excellent and very inquisitive / intelligent author (although he had also had some odd views).