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Post by Catman on Jan 3, 2023 16:46:23 GMT
As he recalls, Catman read this book in the mid-sixties.
The plot revolves around a team of scientists who travel back to the time of dinosaurs. Two of the group are brothers, the older of which is the team leader, and Catman recollects that the younger brother was not to have been part of the team (that may be a misremembering, though). About midway through the book, the older brother is killed.
In the next chapter, the other team members have forgotten the older brother and treat the younger brother as the team leader, even saying that the younger brother has always been the team leader. The younger brother finds his own memories of his brother fading and theorizes that because his brother had died before he was born, a temporal paradox had been created which erased him from existence. He too eventually completely forgets his brother.
Catman does not recall much else of the plot save that the team does make it back to the present, bringing along a young dinosaur with them. Catman thinks that upon arrival, the dinosaur escapes but is hit by a truck or something and is killed.
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Post by Salzmank on Jan 4, 2023 16:15:12 GMT
Could it be Danger: Dinosaurs! (1953), by βRichard Marstenβ (best known as Evan Hunter)? It has brothers who go back in time to hunt dinosaurs, and this blog post says:
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Post by Catman on Jan 4, 2023 16:24:07 GMT
Catman thinks you are correct!
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Post by Salzmank on Jan 4, 2023 16:26:16 GMT
Hooray!
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 4, 2023 16:34:15 GMT
Evan Hunter seems to be another of those "a writer by any other name would write as well" authors !
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 4, 2023 16:39:50 GMT
Even more than I knew about "Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Albert Lombino,(October 15, 1926 β July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter best known for his 87th Precinct novels, written under his Ed McBain pen name, and the novel upon which the film Blackboard Jungle was based. Hunter, who legally adopted that name in 1952, also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, and Richard Marsten, among others." 
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Post by marianne48 on Jan 5, 2023 23:14:14 GMT
Even more than I knew about "Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Albert Lombino,(October 15, 1926 β July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter best known for his 87th Precinct novels, written under his Ed McBain pen name, and the novel upon which the film Blackboard Jungle was based. Hunter, who legally adopted that name in 1952, also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, and Richard Marsten, among others."  So he's the opposite of that vast collection of unheralded authors who all write under the name of James Patterson?
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