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(hardcover) Author Michael Swanwick Cover artist Joe DeVito
Country United States Language English Genre Science fiction,
Paleontology novel Publisher Eos (HarperCollins) Publication
date 2002 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 335
pages (1st edition) ISBN ISBN 0-380-97836-9 (1st edition) OCLC
Number 47056437 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 21 LC Classification
PS3569.W28 B66 2002  Bones of the Earth is a 2002 science
fiction novel by Michael Swanwick. It was nominated for the
Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2002, and the Hugo,[1] Campbell,
and Locus Awards in 2003.[2]  Plot introduction[edit]  Expanded
from his Hugo Award-winning story "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur",
Bones of the Earth spans geologic time, not just centuries but
millennia, from the pre-historic past to the distant and unknown
future. Most of the novel's events take place in the age of the
dinosaurs. The "bones" of the t