History Literature / TheLostWorld1995

* BiggerBad: Jeff Rossiter, the head of Biosyn who signs off on Dodgson's expedition while warning that this is Dodgson's last chance to prove his worth.

In all, it bears only a passing resemblance to it's cinematic adaptation, ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''.

* HollywoodChameleons: The Carnotaurs can not just change the colour of their skin but even mimic complex patterns like chain fences and adopt the effects of torches shone on them, all in mere moments -- no modern animal has anything ''near'' so advanced, and real carnotaurs, like many other dinosaurs, may well have had feathers, at least in part. That said, Rule Of Cool/Scary is in full effect.

* ChekhovsGun: Very subtle. In the High Hide, Levine is eating a candy bar and lets the bits of wrapper fall to the ground. Later, raptors kill [[spoiler:Howard King]], and one of them finds the candy bar he has and eats it, seemingly enjoying it. Afterwards, the raptors march directly under the High Hide, naturally scaring everyone out of their wits, but they don't notice the High Hide and keep going. Until the last raptor notices something on the ground...the candy bar wrapper. Yep, it's the same raptor, and after finding the wrapper, he finds the High Hide, leading to the whole pack attacking it.

* MoralEventHorizon: Dodgson may well have crossed it before the book even started by testing a highly experimental vaccine on South American farmers without their permission or even knowledge. In the novel, he crossed the horizon when he tried to murder Sarah by pushing her overboard.

* ActionGirl: Sarah Harding. She's physically the strongest human character in the book with some extremely impressive strength feats like punching a raptor and [[spoiler:shove Dodgson into the T-Rex's mouth with her legs]]. ** Kelly also gets a minor go at this by shooting a raptor from a bike.

* ActionGirl: Sarah Harding. She's physically the strongest human character in the book with some extremely impressive strength feats like punching a raptor and [[spoiler:shove Dodgson into the T-Rex's mouth with her legs]]. **Kelly also gets a minor go at this by shooting a raptor from a bike.

* ActionGirl: Sarah Harding. She's physically the strongest character in the book with some extremely impressive strength feats like punching a raptor. Kelly also gets a minor go at this by shooting a raptor from a bike.

* ActionGirl: Sarah Harding. She's probably physically the strongest character in the book. Kelly also gets a minor go at this by shooting a raptor from a bike.

* BlatantLies: As soon as Levine is rescued by Thorne, Eddie and Malcolm, he tries to explain away his original panicked phone call begging to be saved as him trying and failing to work the phone Thorne gave him. He even has the audacity to admonish Thorne for this while surrounded by [[DeathGlare death glares]] from everyone.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of the book has the silhouette of an Allosaurus, a dinosaur which does not appear in the book.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Donald Gennaro is revealed to have died of dysentary shortly after returning to Costa Rica.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At one point where he's twiddling his thumbs, Levine muses that when he first arrived on the island, he thought he caught a glimpse of a dinosaur that resembled Carnotaurus. The gang winds up dashing right into the middle of their territory near the end of the book.

** When King loses his nerve and refuses to grab a ''T. rex'' egg, Dodgson berates him and winds up yanking the electrical cord out oh his sonic gun: the only thing keeping the ''T. rex''es at bay. Dodgson freezes on the spot in sheer terror.

** Levine himself appears to be a TakeThat to Ian Malcom's personality from the first book, being a smug self-satisfied scientific genius who acts like a rock star and whose ego is utterly immune to criticism. Predictably, Malcolm can't stand him and takes constant jabs at his arrogance.

* CuttingCorners: Once again, [=InGen=] doing things on the cheap but dangerously impractical rears its head-not only is the island's remaining infrastructure absurdly insecure (see down on SwissCheeseSecurity), but the fact that [=InGen=] fed the dinosaurs with badly-made ground sheep (a known carrier of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapie scrapie]], as opposed to antibiotic-infused poultry - a tried-and-tested method used by zoos ''worldwide'') and disposed of its failed dinosaur experiment corpses in in the lousiest of fashions (by dumping them all on a spot of the island without even bothering to burn them) has now [[spoiler:doomed all of the dinosaurs on the island to die of prion-based poisoning and neural degeneration, because the meat-eaters have gorged themselves on the rotten bodies and the contamination will eventually affect even the herbivores]].

* HollywoodChameleons: The Carnotaurs can not just change the colour of their skin but even mimic complex patterns like chain fences and adopt the effects of torches shone on them, all in mere moments - no modern animal has anything ''near'' so advanced, and real carnotaurs, like many other dinosaurs, may well have had feathers, at least in part. That said, Rule Of Cool/Scary is in full effect.

** Subverted by King, who gets an almost as grisly an end at the jaws of velociraptors - but didn't really do anything to deserve it.

* {{Retcon}}: Ian Malcolm died in the ''Jurassic Park'' book. Not implied, not foreshadowed, but outright stated - the fact that the government wouldn't release his corpse for burial is a minor plot point in the epilogue. However, he got better and is now the protagonist of this book.

* CuttingCorners: Once again, [=InGen=] doing things on the cheap but dangerously impractical rears its head-not only is the island's remaining infrastructure absurdly insecure (see down on SwissCheeseSecurity), but the fact that [=InGen=] fed the dinosaurs with badly-made ground sheep(a known carrier of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapie scrapie]], as opposed to antibiotic-infused poultry - a tried-and-tested method used by zoos ''worldwide'') and disposed of its failed dinosaur experiment corpses in in the lousiest of fashions (by dumping them all on a spot of the island without even bothering to burn them) has now [[spoiler:doomed all of the dinosaurs on the island to die of prion-based poisoning and neural degeneration, because the meat-eaters have gorged themselves on the rotten bodies and the contamination will eventually affect even the herbivores]].

In all, it bears only a passing resemblance to ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Arby and Kelly. Justified in that Arb is a child prodigy, albeit naive, and Kel is very smart and enjoys being with smart people.

** [[spoiler:Dodgson attempts to murder Sarah by pushing her off the boats in the treacherous, rocky coast; when they're both pinned down under a car, hiding from a ''T.rex'', she slowly pushes him out for the Rex to see. It then takes him to its nest, where he gets eaten by the baby ''T. rex''es. The one that finally kills him is the same one whose leg his team broke when they invaded the nest.]]

* LampshadeHanging: The book takes an entire chapter to point out how stupid it is to assume a ''T. rex'' can't see you if you don't move, killing a character who tries it. It also handily suggests another explanation for the fact that it apparently worked in the first film and book - the tyrannosaur had just eaten and simply wasn't hungry.[[note]]And if you pay attention in that movie, the T. rex did indeed not eat Genarro; it tore him in half.[[/note]]

* NervesOfSteel: Lewis Dodgson, despite having never seen one of Hammond's cloned dinosaurs before, is still absolutely unflappable when dealing with them. He even has the balls to go after T-Rex eggs and keeps the parents at bay with his sonic weapon while Baselton and King are nearly shitting their pants. It's when he accidentally rips out the power cord for the sonic gun that Dodgson starts to lose his nerve, culminating in a full blown VillainousBreakdown when he wakes up to find the compys starting to eat him while he was unconscious.

** When King loses his nerve and refuses to grab a T-Rex egg, Dodgson berates him and winds up yanking the electrical cord out oh his sonic gun: the only thing keeping the T-Rexes at bay. Dodgson freezes on the spot in sheer terror.
** Levine realizes how absolutely screwed Malcolm and Sarah are in the trailer when the T-Rex couple come for their baby and mark the extension of their territory to include the clearing with the trailer in it.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Both King and Dodgson separately come to the conclusion that they need to "get the fuck off this island" once Baselton is ripped apart by T-Rexes in their failed attempt to steal the Rex eggs and subsequent flight in stark terror.

* NervesOfSteel: Lewis Dodgson, despite having never seen one of Hammond's cloned dinosaurs before, is still absolutely unflappable when dealing with them. He even has the balls to go after T-Rex eggs and keeps the parents at bay with his sonic weapon while Baselton and King are nearly shitting their pants. It's when he accidentally rips out the power cord for the sonic gun that Dodgson starts to lose his nerve, culminating in a full blown FreakOut when he wakes up to find the compys starting to eat him while he was unconscious.

* NervesOfSteel: Lewis Dodgson, despite having never seen one of Hammond's cloned dinosaurs before, is still absolutely unflappable when dealing with them. He even has the balls to go after T-Rex eggs and keeps the parents at bay with his sonic weapon while Baselton and King are nearly shitting their pants. It's when he accidentally rips out the power cord for the sonic gun that Dodgson starts to lose his nerve, and this is only after escaping a pair of ornery T-Rexes protecting their next.

* NervesOfSteel: Lewis Dodgson, despite having never seen one of Hammond's cloned dinosaurs before, is still absolutely unflappable when dealing with them. He even has the balls to go after T-Rex eggs and keeps them at bay with his sonic weapon while Baselton and King are nearly shitting their pants. It's when he accidentally rips out the power cord for the sonic gun that Dodgson starts to lose his nerve, and this is only after escaping a pair of ornery T-Rexes protecting their next.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Everyone bar [[spoiler:Diego, whose death was offscreen]]. [[spoiler:Baselton]] gets his arm torn off by a ''T. rex'', which then proceeds to rip him apart until he's nothing but ''a mass of red flesh'', [[spoiler:King]] gets his head bitten off by raptors at the base of the neck, and [[spoiler:Eddie]] gets torn apart by ''Velociraptors'', who continue to fight over his remains all the way back to their nest. But [[spoiler:Dodgson]] takes the crown for most gruesome death in the book, as he is eaten by a bunch of baby ''T. rex''es. When he tries to escape, an adult ''T. rex'' ''bites through his leg'' so that he can't escape as one of the little monsters ''rips out his cheek and swallows it whole''. He finally gets put out of his misery when one of the infants tears out his throat.

** Levine himself appears to be a TakeThat to Ian Malcom's personality from the first book, being a smug self-satisfied scientific genius whose ego is utterly immune to criticism. Predictably, Malcolm can't stand him and takes constant jabs at his arrogance.

* TakeThat: Funny enough, the novel takes a couple of digs to ''[[Literature/JurassicPark its predecessor]]'' (and most especially, [[Film/JurassicPark the movie]] [[FilmOfTheBook adaptation thereof]]). Look on ViewerFriendlyInterface and LampshadeHanging for the full explanation.

** Levine himself appears to be a TakeThat to Ian Malcom's personality from the first book, being a smug self-satisfied scientific genius whose ego is utterly immune to criticism.