Post by Xenorama ™ on Jun 8, 2007 20:29:20 GMT -8
this is a novel about the Creature from the Black Lagoon, set in 2015. the climate has warmed so much that a young marine biologist proposes genetically engineering people to live in the sea. he is of course, met with derision.
an older scientist then shows him the long suppressed footage of the Gill-man from South America, and shows him the fossil found in 1954. he relates the goings on from past (what we know as the three movies) and the scientist and his girlfriend end up going back in time to the Devonian Era, about 300 million years ago.
there they discover...
well, it's an interesting book, if a bit disappointing with some of the changes (the "Coarsened Ones" - come on, let's let the gill people people stay the same) and then the end of the book, to provide the drama is pretty predictable. the human characters are engaging, but the way things are explained is kind of weird.
worth a read, though!
an older scientist then shows him the long suppressed footage of the Gill-man from South America, and shows him the fossil found in 1954. he relates the goings on from past (what we know as the three movies) and the scientist and his girlfriend end up going back in time to the Devonian Era, about 300 million years ago.
there they discover...
well, it's an interesting book, if a bit disappointing with some of the changes (the "Coarsened Ones" - come on, let's let the gill people people stay the same) and then the end of the book, to provide the drama is pretty predictable. the human characters are engaging, but the way things are explained is kind of weird.
worth a read, though!