Dinosaur Planet Survivors

Dinosaur Planet Survivors or Survivors: Dinosaur Planet II is a 1984 science fiction novel by American writer Anne McCaffrey. It is the sequel to Dinosaur Planet (1978) and thus the second book in the Ireta series.[2]

Survivors: Dinosaur Planet II (UK)
Dinosaur Planet Survivors (US)
Sweet cover of early US editions[1]
AuthorAnne McCaffrey
Cover artistDarrell Sweet (US)[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesIreta[2]
GenreScience fiction
PublisherOrbit Books (UK)
Del Rey Books (US)
Publication date
1984
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Preceded byDinosaur Planet 
Followed bySassinak 

In 1985 the first two books were issued in one omnibus edition, The Ireta Adventure. McCaffrey and co-authors continued the series in 1990 and 1991 with three books sometimes called the Planet Pirates trilogy or series.

Summary

Dinosaur Planet featured the survey of planet Ireta for its mineral wealth. Several mysteries unfolded whose resolution was interrupted by a Heavyworlder mutiny.

After 43 years, survivors of the mutiny are wakened from cold sleep. Their emergency message has been decoded by a Thek who asks questions but not about the mutiny. They tell him about a buried beacon they found, and he immediately leaves without helping them. Forced to survive on their own, they discover that the mutineers have built a settlement and landing grid that could only be used to colonize a planet—in this case, illegally. Several Thek arrive and seize control for their own reasons.

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed The Survivors: Dinosaur Planet II for White Dwarf #62, and stated that "The problem: this is 'straight' SF adventure and McCaffrey never seems interested in it, as she is in her romantic SF/fantasies with their dragons and singers. The writing's slipshod and the science dodgy."[3]

gollark: Kantian ethics is the system Kant came up with, which I don't know that much about.
gollark: Deontological systems have rules like "do not kill people", and many deontologists would *not* divert the trolley because they feel like they're killing people one way and not the other.
gollark: Deontology in action!
gollark: And what you should do is the moral thing, yes.
gollark: Anyway! "Consequentialism" basically says "do whatever produces the best eventual outcome (by some metric)", so a consequentialist would probably say "well, 1 people dying is better than 5, so divert the trolley".

References
  1. Dinosaur Planet Survivors title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database lists no cover artist for early UK editions (prior to the only hardcover edition, 1997) and Darrell Sweet for early US editions (paper only). There were multiple later editions alone or bound with Dinosaur Planet (omnibus).
  2. Ireta series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
    • Select a title to see its linked publication history and general information. Select a particular edition for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.
  3. Langford, Dave (February 1985). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. Games Workshop (Issue 62): 9.


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