Preston/Child

Nora, Corrie amusingly team up again in ‘Scorpion’s Tail’

Corrie Swanson and Nora Kelly, our two favorite women from the Preston-Childverse (with apologies to Constance Greene) return for their second combined adventure, “The Scorpion’s

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‘Dinosaurs in the Attic’ (1986) a virtual museum tour

Although he didn’t know it at the time, Douglas Preston’s nonfiction book “Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History”

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‘Deep Storm’ (2007) finds thrills at ocean’s floor

In “Deep Storm” (2007), Lincoln Child dives into some of the biggest science fiction ideas of his career without letting the story become untethered. While

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Child’s ‘Death Match’ (2004) invigorates ‘scary AI’ trope

From my first read, I remembered “Death Match” (2004) as being too similar to other works — dating back to the HAL-9000 portion of “2001”

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Child’s ‘Utopia’ (2002) a thrilling debut

After six novels co-written with Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child goes solo for “Utopia” (2002), which I remembered as setting a high bar for all his

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Preston, Spezi probe ‘Monster of Florence’ (2008)

We think of Douglas Preston as a best-selling thriller novelist, but his roots are in journalism, and he is still a practicing journalist. His earliest

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Preston takes on God in ‘Blasphemy’ (2008)

Douglas Preston’s “Blaspehmy” (2008) has such a good premise that it hooked me twice. I remembered from my first read that scientists with a particle

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‘Tyrannosaur Canyon’ (2005) a rip-roaring thriller

Novels where dinosaurs roam present-day Earth were left to the late, great Michael Crichton, and that’s as it should be, but Douglas Preston crafts an

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Preston dreams up lost city in ‘The Codex’ (2003)

Before Douglas Preston set foot in the fabled White City of Honduras, as chronicled in 2017’s “Lost City of the Monkey God,” he imagined going

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Endearing chimp stars in Preston’s ‘Jennie’ (1994)

Douglas Preston starts his fiction-writing career with a novel that’s almost unrecognizably his own, when viewed from the lens of a quarter-century of imaginative sci-fi

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