DINOSAURS! LOVE! WAR! MONASTIC LIVING! Three days after his partner is bitten in half by a brachiosaur, a nameless monk meets the love of his life. Her name is Petunia. She is a dinosaur. But a twenty-year war between their species is about to come to a head, and only one will survive. To be together, the monk and the dinosaur must fight their way through hordes of pterodactyl samurai, anti-aircraft stegosaurs, gigantic kamikaze moths, and machine gun-wielding tyrannosaurs. Love in the Time of Dinosaurs is a surreal war tale of forbidden love, betrayal, and magic kung-fu. Forget Jurassic Park, this is the greatest dinosaur story ever told.
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"I very much recommend this bloody, violent, sweet novella. It's got love. It's got carnage. It's got dinosaurs with guns." - ANITA DALTON, I Read Odd Books
"Kirsten delivers an imaginative tale that's brilliant, bright and bold." - BRUCE TAYLOR, author of Mr. Magic Realism and Kafka's Uncle
"Alene makes you feel the wistfulness, the longing, the heart-skipping magic of encountering your true love...as skillfully - MORE skillfully than many writers who work with strictly human characters." - JEFFREY THOMAS, author of Punktown and Deadstock
"Kirsten Alene's fiction is enchanting and classical, yet totally out of this world. She has the gift that all of my favorite writers possess. Namely, the ability to shatter reality as we know it without losing a grasp on humanity." - CAMERON PIERCE, author of The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island and Ass Goblins of Auschwitz
"Guns, kung-fu, and dinosaurs...an absolute hallucinogenic thrill-ride that's pure imagination and pure joy. Bring your own popcorn." - TIM CURRAN, author of Biohazard and Zombie Pulp
"...something completely fresh, weird, exciting, and also comforting and familiar. This is a love story. It's an adventure. It's metaphysical, super cool, and fast-paced while remaining lyrical." - KEVIN SHAMEL, author of Rotten Little Animals
"...something completely fresh, weird, exciting, and also comforting and familiar. This is a love story. It's an adventure. It's metaphysical, super cool, and fast-paced while remaining lyrical." - KEVIN SHAMEL, author of Rotten Little Animals
"Monks vs. dinosaurs with guns? Am I tripping and/or wet dreaming? NO, but with Kirsten Alene's debut novel I can probably save myself the loot I was planning to spend on those peyote buttons." - FORREST ARMSTRONG, author of The Deadheart Shelters
"...a world filled with complex politics, spirituality, history and a sense of actual existence in some parallel dimension." - LIVING WITH A NERD
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Kirsten Alene lives in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Unicorn Battle Squad (2012) and the novella, Love in the Time of Dinosaurs (2010). Her work has been published in Amazing Stories of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Christmas on Crack, The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, New Dead Families, Small Doggies Magazine, The Battered Suitcase, Ellipsis, and Rivets.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
There is such a strong surge of imagination and passion flowing through this book its hard to put down, even when its over, which I think is too soon. This book could, and should have been longer in my opinion. For such a short book all of the elements are so fully developed, so fleshed out and strong I just wanted to keep reading. Alene creates an amazing world with a unique history and its own set of rules, I love bizarro books like this.
A brutal struggle between a strange and resilient order of monks and machine gun and cannon toting dinosaurs is coming to head. Our nameless protagonist at once gives us great insight as to the history of this conflict and the conflict inside himself, battling the loss of his best friend and a strange sense of admiration for his enemy. A recent escalation of the carnage consuming the world and a shocking discovery force him into action. And this story is full of action. Battle sequences are fluid and exciting, yet the language and authors awesome style keep it fresh.
This book is also full of its own unique brand of surreal mysticism highlighted by awesome passages of the main characters meditations giving the action beautiful breaks of poetic expression.
This is a great debut and a stellar story, I hope to see more from the author very soon.
Four and a half stars out of five.
A brutal struggle between a strange and resilient order of monks and machine gun and cannon toting dinosaurs is coming to head. Our nameless protagonist at once gives us great insight as to the history of this conflict and the conflict inside himself, battling the loss of his best friend and a strange sense of admiration for his enemy. A recent escalation of the carnage consuming the world and a shocking discovery force him into action. And this story is full of action. Battle sequences are fluid and exciting, yet the language and authors awesome style keep it fresh.
This book is also full of its own unique brand of surreal mysticism highlighted by awesome passages of the main characters meditations giving the action beautiful breaks of poetic expression.
This is a great debut and a stellar story, I hope to see more from the author very soon.
Four and a half stars out of five.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Sam Reeve
Format:Paperback
For 13 years of my life I wanted to be a paleontologist. I LOVED dinosaurs (and still secretly think they're the coolest thing ever). This book was super satisfying for the dinosaur lover inside me, and the bizarro lover!
Awesomely written, really imaginative, it doesn't leave you in want of action because there is plenty of it. There are some kick-a** battles between the monks and weapon-wielding dinos (and some hilarious descriptions of pterodactyls awkwardly holding swords).
The romance between the monk and dino is also really cute. Despite being totally ridiculous when you think about it, it seems like a very realistic love story.
I never thought anyone could make dinosaurs seem MORE bad-a*s and awesome, but Kirsten has done this. I would recommend this book to EVERYONE.
Awesomely written, really imaginative, it doesn't leave you in want of action because there is plenty of it. There are some kick-a** battles between the monks and weapon-wielding dinos (and some hilarious descriptions of pterodactyls awkwardly holding swords).
The romance between the monk and dino is also really cute. Despite being totally ridiculous when you think about it, it seems like a very realistic love story.
I never thought anyone could make dinosaurs seem MORE bad-a*s and awesome, but Kirsten has done this. I would recommend this book to EVERYONE.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Kevin Shamel
Format:Paperback
I love dinosaurs. I love kung fu monks. I love love. This book has it all.
Kirsten Alene comes out rockin' with her first book. She has created something completely fresh, weird, exciting, and also comforting and familiar. This is a love story. It's an adventure. It's metaphysical, super cool, and fast-paced while remaining lyrical.
The story is set in an age just before the End of Days, or perhaps it begins the End of Days, or it's in the middle of the End of Days. But the End of Days is in there. It's told from the point of view of a warrior monk who battles dinosaurs deemed Jeremies who wield giant-sized weapons, dino-claws, and big stompy feet. And this monk falls in love. With the enemy! (But she's really sweet, and not really the enemy.) Their love is touching, and pretty, and sad.
I love the Steve, too.
Ms. Alene's style is fun, smart, and a pleasure to read. You will find yourself at the end of this book and wait for the lights to come up in the theater.
If you want some totally excellent action on top of a passionate story of human nature and love, this book is for you.
I'm eagerly awaiting Kirsten Alene's next book.
Kirsten Alene comes out rockin' with her first book. She has created something completely fresh, weird, exciting, and also comforting and familiar. This is a love story. It's an adventure. It's metaphysical, super cool, and fast-paced while remaining lyrical.
The story is set in an age just before the End of Days, or perhaps it begins the End of Days, or it's in the middle of the End of Days. But the End of Days is in there. It's told from the point of view of a warrior monk who battles dinosaurs deemed Jeremies who wield giant-sized weapons, dino-claws, and big stompy feet. And this monk falls in love. With the enemy! (But she's really sweet, and not really the enemy.) Their love is touching, and pretty, and sad.
I love the Steve, too.
Ms. Alene's style is fun, smart, and a pleasure to read. You will find yourself at the end of this book and wait for the lights to come up in the theater.
If you want some totally excellent action on top of a passionate story of human nature and love, this book is for you.
I'm eagerly awaiting Kirsten Alene's next book.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Fish headed Steve..................
This was the debut for the wife of fellow Bizarro author Cameron Pierce, Kirstin Alene. I really enjoyed the overall story and the different concepts that are presented. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Buckeye Nick
4.0 out of 5 stars
Love is a Battlefield
Something drew me to this book. Monks and dinosaurs generally aren't my thing, but for some reason, I felt compelled to read this. Read more
Published 4 months ago by 13visions
1.0 out of 5 stars
In my opinion a dinosaur tale of nonsense
Never have I read a book that the end,the middle, and the beginning made no sense. Well I have now. If you decide to 're-read chapter one(as I did) and the chapters keep getting... Read more
Published 5 months ago by I read a lot
4.0 out of 5 stars
This was a strange little book...
This was a strange (hence "Bizarro" book series) little book. I had no idea what to expect, and I still have no idea what I got. (I laughed as I typed that). Read more
Published 6 months ago by Teresa Cypher
1.0 out of 5 stars
I can only assume that this was written by a middle school girl with a...
Let me be clear up front. I like to support young writers. I like to support new writers. So if, by some chance, this novel was written by someone still in grade school- good... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Rez
1.0 out of 5 stars
If it was $.50.....
SO. Flying on airplanes gets old kind of quickly. In order to make it less old I enjoy reading funny/ironic/entertaining short things. Read more
Published 8 months ago by sd00
5.0 out of 5 stars
But nothing can replace the heart...
Love in the Time of Dinosaurs by Kirsten Alene is witty, satirical and a total hoot! An order of fighting monks defend their monastery and townspeople with guns that encase their... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Athene Five
4.0 out of 5 stars
wonderfully bizarre. Monty Python meets Terry Pratchett
Very weird in a totally engaging way. Give no heed to basic biology or physics, but hang on for a moderately well crafted bizarre ride. Read more
Published 11 months ago by heff
1.0 out of 5 stars
Rubbish
This book is such a load of rubbish. okay, it's fantasy, so we can pretend that dinosaurs and humans are alive at the same time. Read more
Published 11 months ago by BeauBaxter
1.0 out of 5 stars
Bizarro is right
This book States it's part of "Bizarro Author Series" and that's an understatement. First of all, the story makes no sense whatsoever and the writing is ridiculously bad. Read more
Published 11 months ago by LovesToReadBooks
