{"product_id":"the-running-of-the-tyrannosaurs-stant-litore-9781514647813","title":"The Running of the Tyrannosaurs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wielding elegant prose and tightly-focused characters, Stant Litore cuts deep into the science-fiction realm of bio-engineered dinosaurs and high-tech bread and circuses with a physically enhanced female gladiator whose personal tragedy is as powerful as her victories in the arena. Her story echoes in the heart long after it is told.\" - Richard Ellis Preston, Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eRomulus Buckle \u0026amp; the City of the Founders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a far future space station, once each year, nano-engineered young women run genetically engineered tyrannosaurs in a race as brutal and bloody as any witnessed in the Roman Circus 3,000 years before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEgret thinks she is ready for this day. She has been brainwashed for it, trained for it, shaped and reshaped into a sacrificial model of beauty for the entertainment of millions. Her world is one of strict regimen and fierce competition, one in which others can only be competitors or worshippers, never friends, where lack of perfection is punished by burial beneath the red sands and the thundering feet of tyrannosaurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Egret can't imagine how this day might change her. How the scream of a tyrannosaur and the cries of the other sacrifices running beside her might break open the steel surface of her world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not a day you will forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like all of Stant Litore's first-in-series stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Running of the Tyrannosaurs\u003c\/i\u003e hints at a vast and unique world roiling behind the setting of the story itself, which nevertheless stands alone as a complete, wholly satisfying, and blisteringly original tale. I finished it with same sense of vertiginous anticipation that accompanied my first reading of \u003ci\u003eDeath Has Come Up Into Our Windows (The Zombie Bible)\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnsible 15715.\u003c\/i\u003e\" - Jason Kirk, author of Reverb and The Other Whites in South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stant Litore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1514647818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781514647813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.11d","brand":"Stant Litore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962151162111,"sku":"9781514647813","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_560632db-3d08-47af-80e0-350086c5735e.jpg?v=1750649473","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-running-of-the-tyrannosaurs-stant-litore-9781514647813","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}