History Literature / OurLadyOfTheSauropods

* FluffyTheTerrible: The name of the biggest and oldest ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' in the habitat is ''Belshazzar''.

When a scientist becomes stranded on a prehistoric habitat populated with dinosaurs referred to as “Dino Island” after her module malfunctions, she has to survive for 30 days alone while avoiding predators, starvation and madness.

* FluffyTheTerrible: The name of the biggest and oldest ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' in the habitat is ''Belshazzar''.

The short story can be found in several ScienceFiction anthologies including “The Palace at Midnight” and “The Mammoth Book of Monsters”.

* ApocalypticLog: The story is told through the Anne’s diary entries.

* JurassicFarce: [[UnbuiltTrope Unbuilt]], Silverberg’s short story actually predates the [[Literature/JurassicPark Michael Crichton novel]] by a decade, however they both have similarities. After humans have been able to clone dinosaurs through DNA and housed them together on a “Dino island”, there is now an in-universe debate about wether the public should be allowed to pay for dinosaur tours.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The dinosaurs might all be sentient and capable of telepathically communicating with one another, or Anne is simply losing her mind.
* MinimalistCast: Only two human characters that appear in the story are Anne and [[spoiler: Sarber.]]
* MisplacedWildlife: Lampshaded, there are about a dozen different dinosaur species on “Dino Island” from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. However they were all cloned from DNA and placed onto the habitat together.
* TheNameless: The main character is this for most the story until the very end when [[spoiler: Sarber arrives on the habitat and says the characters name -- Anne.]]
* ShoutOut: Anne mentions an incident with a Tyrannosaurus in San Diego, ironically this story predates Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark by over 15 years.

* StockDinosaurs: The story features a few well known dinosaur species including UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops and Brachiosaurus.

When a scientist named Anne becomes stranded on a prehistoric habitat populated with dinosaurs referred to as “Dino Island” after her module malfunctions, she has to survive for 30 days alone while avoiding predators, starvation and madness.

* JurassicFarce: [[UnbuiltTrope Unbuilt]], Silverberg’s short story actually predates the [[Literature/JurassicPark Michael Crichton novel]] by a decade, however they both have similarities. After humans have been able to clone dinosaurs through DNA and housed them together on a ”Dino island”, there is now an in-universe debate about wether the public should be allowed to pay for dinosaur tours.

When a scientist named Anne becomes stranded on a prehistoric habitat populated with dinosaurs referred to as “Dino Island”, she has to survive for 30 days alone while avoiding predators, starvation and madness.

* JurassicFarce: [[UnbuiltTrope Unbuilt]], Silverberg’s short story actually predates the [[Literature/JurassicPark Michael Crichton novel]] by a decade, however they both have similarities. After humans have been able to clone dinosaurs through DNA and housed them together in a man-made ecosystem, there is now an in-universe debate about wether the public should be allowed to pay for dinosaur tours.

* JurassicFarce: Unbuilt, Silverberg’s short story actually predates the [[Literature/JurassicPark Michael Crichton novel]] by a decade, however they both have similarities. After humans have been able to clone dinosaurs through DNA and housed them together in a man-made ecosystem, there is now an in-universe debate about wether the public should be allowed to pay for dinosaur tours.

* JurassicFarce: Silverberg’s short story actually predates the [[Literature/JurassicPark Michael Crichton novel]] by a decade, however they both have similarities. After humans have been able to clone dinosaurs through DNA and housed them together in a man-made ecosystem, there is now an in-universe debate about wether the public should be allowed to pay for dinosaur tours.

* UnreliableNarrator: The story leaves it ambiguous wether the Anne is simply descending into madness or the dinosaurs are actually sentient.

* ShoutOut: Anne mentions an incident with a Tyrannosaurus in San Diego, ironically this story predates the [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark The Lost World]] by over 15 years.

The short story can be found in the anthologies “The Palace at Midnight” and “The Mammoth Book of Monsters”.

When a scientist named Anne becomes stranded on a prehistoric habitat populated with dinosaurs, she has to survive for 30 days alone while avoiding predators, starvation and madness.

When a scientist named Anne becomes stranded on a habitat populated with dinosaurs, she has to survive for 30 days alone while avoiding predators, starvation and madness.

* SpaceStation: The habitat is a man made space station in orbit near Earth.

* TheNameless: The main character is this for most the story until the very end when [[spoiler: Sarber arrives on the habitat and says the characters name “Anne”.]]

* MinimalistCast: Only two human characters that appear in the story are Anne and [[spoiler: Sarber]]

* TheNameless: The main character is this for most the story until the very end when [[spoiler: Sarber arrives on the habitat and says the characters name “Anne”.

TheNameless: The main character is this for most the story until the very end when [[spoiler: Sarber arrives on the habitat and says the characters name “Anne”.

* MinimalistCast: Only two human characters that appear in the story are the Anne and [[spoiler: Sarber]]

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSyaNLcZ3vk&t=282s audiobook version on YouTube]]

* FluffyTheTerrible: The name of the biggest and oldest Tyrannosaurus Rex in the habitat is ''Belshazzar''.

* FluffyTheTerrible: The name of the biggest and oldest Tyrannosaurus Rex in the habitat is named ''Belshazzar''.

When a scientist becomes stranded on a habitat populated with dinosaurs, she has to survive for 30 days alone while avoiding predators, starvation and madness.

* ApocalypticLog: The story is told through the narrators diary entries.

* GentleGiantSauropod: The narrator comes to believe that Bertha the Brachiosaurus is a loving leader of all the dinosaurs.
* JurassicFarce: Silverberg’s short story actually predates the [[Literature/JurassicPark Michael Crichton novel]] by a decade, however they both have similarities. After humans have been able to clone dinosaurs through DNA and housed them together in a man-made ecosystem, there is now an in-universe debate about wether the public should be allowed to pay for dinosaur tours.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The dinosaurs might all be sentient and capable of telepathically communicating with one another, or the narrator is simply losing her mind.
* MinimalistCast: Only two human characters that appear in the story are the narrator and [[spoiler: Sarber]]

* ShoutOut: The narrator mentions an incident with a Tyrannosaurus in San Diego, ironically this story predates the [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark The Lost World]] by over 15 years.

* SuperiorSpecies: The narrator comes to believe the dinosaurs are this to humans.
* UnreliableNarrator: The story leaves it ambiguous wether the main character is simply descending into madness or the dinosaurs are actually sentient.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The story takes place the near future where cloning of extinct species and routine space-travel are possible.