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Day of the Dinosaur

It is 1995. The setting is the Northeastern Seaboard, a town ravaged by drugs, crime, and racial strife. Five hundred million years of evolutionary history and a century of war have led us to this time and place. On the eve of the new millennium, an outcast veteran, an old man who witnesses a murder, has 24 hours to answer two questions: What does it mean to be human? And who can he turn to when the darkest forces of the universe are marshaled against him?


As the day progresses, it seems that evolution has taken a wrong turn and that human beings are no longer in charge. Reptilian minds dominate the landscape. Will the most brutal and cold-blooded among the townspeople call the shots, or will good win out in the end? Will humanity restore order at the close of day, or will this be the Day of the Dinosaur?

Robert Arthur Ulreich

What makes us human? Robert Arthur Ulreich has wrestled with this question his entire life. Some say our time sense, but the swallows that show up at Capistrano on the same day each year obviously are more sensitive to time. Some say the “God gene,” but if this means a superstitious belief in a God that does not exist, one has to ask how that has moved us forward. As often happens, the act of writing opened doors to the writer. And answered questions. If you want to know the answers, read on.

Austin Macauley Publishers