Retaliation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530142750)

J.E. Thompson is an award winning author of Young Adult fiction. He lives and tends his garden in Southern Utah with his wife, children, dog, and chickens. Well, the chickens don't actually live in the house with everyone else, in fact they aren't even allowed inside the house. He draws inspiration for his books from the world around him, and sometimes even the real world. He often muses that it is a shame that things are the way they are because if they weren't, they'd be different. But then, if they were different, everything would be familiar in its difference, and we'd all think it was normal, and nothing would seem different. Except... Living in an area of fossils, he is amazed that scientists finding a jumbled collection of fossilized bones can not only reassemble them, often with only fragments of a single bone, but decide how they lived, walked, ate, what they lived in and wore for clothing. (At least the humans and almost humans anyway. They are still working on what T-Rex's wore and what their workplaces looked like.) He has many welcome mini dinosaur friends who help keep the grasshoppers out of the garden. Their exploits are delightful but so far in their evolution, their communication skills are primitive. Otherwise, they would have been included in Revelation as characters. But they might find their way into future books.