Jurassic Park^TM III Novelization by Scott Ciencin Page B

the window. Eric gasped, startled at the sight of the reptile flying alongside them.
    “One at three!” a marine said. He raised the barrel of his rifle and took careful aim.
    “No!”
Alan yelled. He grabbed the rifle’s barrel and pointed it away. “They’re just flying in formation. They think we’re one of them.”
    Eric watched as a third Pteranodon joined the other auburn-winged flyers, forming the point of a V. As horrifying as the creatures had been moments ago, they were suddenly beautiful again. Each of their giant wings beat a delicate rhythm unlike anything Eric could ever have imagined.
    Soon the leader of the Pteranodons banked right, pulling away from the helicopter. The others followed it. Only—
    They didn’t fly back to the island.
    Eric watched as the Pteranodons sailed off. He spoke to Alan without shifting his gaze.
    “Pteranodons in the Mesozoic could fly over oceans and go from one continent to another. Where do you think these are heading?”
    “I don’t know. Maybe to find a new nesting ground,” Alan said. “It’s a whole new world for them.”
    “I dare them to nest in Enid, Oklahoma,” Amanda said.
    Paul looked over. He took his wife’s hand. “Let’s go home.”
    Eric smiled. He had almost given up hope—even before the accident that stranded him on the island—that he would ever have a place to call home again.
    Now he knew everything would be all right.
    Alan looked up as the copilot handed him a pair of headsets.
    “For you,” the copilot said.
    Alan put them on, adjusting the microphone. He had to yell over the noise of the chopper.
    “This is Grant,” Alan said.
    “Alan?” Ellie asked. “Alan! Are you okay?”
    “Ellie! Yes! I’m fine.” He was grinning like a schoolboy.
    “I don’t believe you,” Ellie said. “You told me a paleontologist had no business being on that island.”
    “I know.”
    “So what were you doing?” Ellie asked.
    Alan leaned back and allowed the golden sunlight to wash over him. “Evolving.”
    He gazed out the window, taking in the primal beauty of the Pteranodons. They were flying northward, beside the sunrise.
    It was a new dawn, a new beginning, and Alan Grant didn’t look away. He kept watching, even after the fluttering silhouettes dissolved in the shimmering light.

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Do you wonder how thirteen-year-old Eric Kirby stayed alive for eight weeks
alone
in Jurassic Park?
    Read Eric’s harrowing survival story in the original novel
    SURVIVOR
    by Scott Ciencin, the first in the new Jurassic Park™ Adventures series from Random House, Universal Studios, and Amblin Entertainment.
    ISBN: 0-375-81289-X
    Available now!

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    By Scott Ciencin
    A band of teenagers armed with video cameras and what they think are “the rules of the island” invade Jurassic Park. But their dream of making a blockbuster dinosaur documentary soon turns into a nightmare because dinosaurs don’t play by anyone’s rules. Can paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant and thirteen-year-old Eric Kirby save them? Or will they all become prey?
    Coming October 2001
    ISBN: 0-375-81290-3

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    SCOTT CIENCIN is a best-selling author of adult and children’s fiction. Praised by
Science Fiction Review
as “one of today’s finest fantasy writers,” and listed in
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
, Scott has written over forty works, many published by Warner, Avon, and TSR. For Random House Children’s Publishing, Scott is now writing the Jurassic Park™ Adventures series. He is also a favorite author in the popular Dinotopia series, for which he’s written six titles:
Windchaser, Lost City, Thunder Falls, Sky Dance, Return to Lost City
, and
The Explorers
.

 
    Among Scott’s other recent projects is the children’s series