DAY OF THE PREDATOR
Sixty-five million years ago something happened. Palaeontologists called it the KT event. There’s some debate as to what precisely it was; an asteroroid impact with earth, a giant volcano, but whatever it was, it caused a severe and sudden climactic shift. The sun’s warmth was blocked by an envelope of smoke (caused by either the asteroid’s impact or the volcano’s emissions) and the world experienced a rapid, lethal and short lived cooling. Being cold-blooded, and generally large, the dinosaurs had no chance…and the survivors of this catastrophe, little shrews, went on to inherit the earth, and eventually…become us.
But, what if a single species of dinosaur had survived? A species smart enough to learn to adapt. Dinosaur experts say that a species of therapod called Troodon might have been the smartest species of dinosaur that ever existed. But who’s to know? There might have been other, smarter species out there with a larger brain, and intelligent enough to adapt their hunting patterns and behaviour to cope with a suddenly colder climate. Palaeontologists will be the first to admit that the fossil record is far from complete. The species we know about, are, perhaps, just a glimpse of a far greater number of species who’s bones never quite fell in exactly the right place to leave a record that would survive to the present.
In TimeRiders2: Day of the Predator, we’re going to get a glimpse of an undiscovered species; a species of dinosaur that might well have existed in the late cretaceous era; a species that hunted in packs, had claws that could actually hold and manipulate tools, had brains that could solve problems and a simple language of clicks and croaks that allowed groups of these small reptilian hominids to work as a lethal team.
And, this species are about to encounter, humans; Liam O’Connor, his ‘support unit’ and a class full of high school kids, blasted back in time, as the result of a zero point energy experiment gone wrong.
For me, what has made this 2nd book in the nine book series so much fun to write, was writing from the occasional point of view of these creatures, quietly observing these humans as they struggle to survive, watching them make spears, clubs, bows and arrows and learning from what they see, adapting and trying these same skills for themselves.
I never thought writing a time travel tale could be quite so terrifying!
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