Episode 55 - The Grid

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too. 

Find the episode webpage at: Episode 55 - The Grid.

In this episode, my terrific guest author Roselle Lim joins the show to chat with me about:

Forest fires, Tiny Toon Adventures, Steven Speilberg's endorsements, Jurassic Park, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, immigrating to Canada, how to put dinosaurs into your cookbook, eating crocodiles, Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, wicked stepmothers, employing fairy tales and fables into creative fiction, cooking analogies!, writing hope into the endings, disgusing the villains in your life as characters in your novels, allusions to myths and fairy tales, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Ian Malcolm's cynical perspective like Alice, a subversive text disguised as a children's tale, learning English from watching wreslting, Jurassic Park as a cautionary tale, social media, following the white rabbit, analyzing Dr. Alan Grant, Ellie was way too good for Grant, the insane land of Wonderland, navigating Wonderland, satirizing Victorian institutions like the monarchy, writing subversive texts inside children's literature, Jurassic Park as a subversive text, and much more!

Her latest novel: 

You can order it here: Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Feather Quill Knobs in the Dinosaur Velociraptor 
• Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa

Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/

Intro: Black Licorice.  Outro: Sally Ride.

The Text:

This week’s text is The Grid, spanning from pages 345 – 350.

Synopsis:

Tim struggles to get power restored, in order to save their friends in the Lodge, but three raptors leap up to the balcony and enter the second floor of the Visitor Center. Lex and Tim snag a key card from a dead security officer and escape into another room. 

Discussions surround:

The history of Error 404 File Not Found.

Corrections:

Side effects: 

May cause you to smell forest fires from hundreds of miles away. 

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Thank you!

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