Dinosaur Omnibus: Dinosaur Slavers of Ceres & of Stags, Hens and Dinosaurs

Collecting 2 dinosaur pulp stories for the twenty-first century. Dinosaur Slavers of Ceres: Doctor Ike Scarman has spent his entire life teaching university students about dinosaurs. Now, trapped on the dinosaur world Ceres, Scarman is forced to make a new life for himself in the midst of every palaeontologist’s dream. When he uncovers a secret message from a captured princess, Ike Scarman rescues her from a group of poachers and flees into the dangers of the dinosaur-infested forest. Dispatched to watch out for Scarman, Sergeant Hawke can see the ‘princess’ is nothing more than entertainment hired by the poachers for their long journey. Fearful of the girl’s influence, Hawke knows she has to find Scarman before the ageing scientist realises all too late that he is not the jungle pulp hero he’s convinced himself he is. Of Stags, Hens and Dinosaurs: When Darren Hardy wakes up naked, he finds himself tied to a tree in the middle of a quarantined dinosaur world; but on the night following his stag do it’s what he should have expected. With his friends too drunk to care, it falls to his fiancée and her hen party to invade the dinosaur world and search for him. Falling in with a cranky old man and his pet dinosaur, Darren is forced to fight the elements, the dinosaur wildlife and the worst hangover he’s ever had. But the old man is more than he appears and his years spent in isolation have played havoc with his sanity. The closer Darren’s fiancée comes to saving him, the more of an interest the old man takes. For a group of young women lost in the forest, there are far worse dangers out there than the dinosaurs.