Living Memory

by David Walton

Overview

We always thought we were the first.

When paleontologists Samira and Kit uncover dinosaur skeletons in northern Thailand, they also find the remains of an ancient genetic technology that nations will kill to control. Catapulted into a web of murder and intrigue involving the Chinese Ministry of State Security, a powerful Asian crime syndicate, the CIA, and a beautiful Thai princess, Samira and Kit don't know who they can trust. Torn apart by competing factions and stranded on opposite sides of the world, they race to discover the truth before the world goes to war. Can they bring the past to life before it kills them all?

Living Memory is the first book of a globe-spanning thriller series by the author of The Genius Plague.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781088035375
Publisher:	David Walton
Publication date:	10/18/2022
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

DAVID WALTON "has brought hard sci-fi roaring back to life" (Wall Street Journal) with "vivid, speculative science" (David Brin) in "an expanding universe of delight" (Washington Post). His novels are action-packed thrillers with a spot-on understanding of science and technology. David hails from Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife and eight children. An engineer by day and an author by night, David won the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award for his debut novel, TERMINAL MIND, and the 2018 John W. Campbell Award for THE GENIUS PLAGUE. His books have been translated into eight languages.

Editorial Reviews

07/25/2022

Walton (The Genius Plague) blends volatile politics and fascinating paleontology in this riveting adventure. American scientist Samira Shannon and her University of Colorado team set out to excavate dromaeosaurid dinosaur fossils in Thailand, an expedition partially funded by the CIA. When a coup puts the government in the hands of a pro-China group suspicious of Americans, the Thai army confiscates their discoveries and arrests them as spies. Meanwhile, Thai paleontologist Kit Chongsuttanamanee works on a different set of fossils at the request of the Thai Army Weapons Research Division. Embedded in these fossils, he discovers a green liquid that creates a hallucinogenic vision of the stars in the configurations in which they appeared 66 million years ago. Kit and his colleague, Arinya Tavaranan, develop a theory that an intelligent Cretaceous avian species had the technology “to communicate memories by recording them in a physical medium that others can experience by smelling it”—leading them to postulate the existence of complex dinosaur civilizations. Walton brings rich detail to the concept of scientifically adept dinosaurs who recorded their memories for posterity on the eve of their extinction and keeps the modern timeline just as gripping with tense geopolitics, smugglers, and resurrected mammoths and dodos. Readers will be hooked. (Self-published)

Publishers Weekly

"Walton has brought hard sci-fi roaring back to life." -The Wall Street Journal

"David Walton deserves to be considered the literary heir of Michael Crichton. LIVING MEMORY packs an exciting thriller with intriguing science."

--Craig DiLouie, author of THE CHILDREN OF RED PEAK

"David Walton is one of our very best writers of science-fiction thrillers." -Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Quantum Night

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