Forge of a Species

* * Sequel to the highly acclaimed "Crucible of a Species" * * The Endeavor Expedition; A Colony and a Starport among the dinosaurs . . . Year 2056AD: Mark Nolen, son of the famous Dr. Phillip Nolen has made billions by founding a company to mine the waters of Jupiter's moon Europa. Secretly, Mark's people continue their forbidden research into both interstellar and time travel but the International Space Agency has become suspicious. Nolen decides to move their research and begin the construction of an Interstellar Port back on Earth, but not the Earth they know. They set off to travel far back in time but an incident forces them to emerge from the timeslip at a different point -- the final days of the Cretaceous Era - danger close to a point when all of the dinosaurs died in a terrible catastrophe. Even so, there is hope. This undertaking will be different from the military venture of his father's Argos Expedition. After all, these are scientists, engineers, skilled workers, families -322 men, women and children. They setup operations on a peninsula jutting out into the ocean in what some day will be West Texas. This time, they are prepared and the climate is friendlier. They know what to expect and how to handle a world of fierce theropod dinosaurs. After all, how much different from his father's experience could the world in this latter timeframe be? The colonists discover life is even more abundant, beautiful, larger, and savage than expected. It is also the time of the ultimate predator - Tyrannosaurs Rex, and like everything else this beast is much more than they anticipated.