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DINOSAUR BEACH
by Keith Laumer



This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and
any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright 1971 by Keith Laumer

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Book

Baen Publishing Enterprises
260 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10001

First Baen printing, July 1986

ISBN: 0-671-65581-7

Cover art by Tom Kidd

Printed in the United States of America

Distributed by
SIMON & SCHUSTER
TRADE PUBLISHING GROUP
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, N.Y. 10020


This book is affectionately dedicated to
Anne Taylor, RN.



1

It was a pleasant summer evening. We were sitting on the porch swing, Lisa and I, watching
the last of the pink fade out of the sky and listening to Fred Hunnicut pushing a lawn mower over
his weed crop next door. A cricket in the woodwork started up his fiddle, sounding businesslike
and full of energy. A car rattled by, its weak yellow headlights pushing shadows along the brick
street and reflecting in the foliage of the sycamores that arched over the pavement. Somewhere a
radio sang about harbor lights.
A pleasant evening, a pleasant place. I hated to leave it. But I took a breath of crisp
air lightly laced with leafsmoke and newcut grass and got to my feet.
Lisa looked up at me. She had a heart-shaped face, and a short nose, and big, wide-spaced