The Quintaglio Ascension

[Night Bear]

Has anyone here heard of this trilogy? I've only read the first book myself, but it's a really nice trilogy. It's about a race of sentient dinosaurs called the Quintaglios who have to flee their homeworld, a moon, because it's orbiting too close to a gas giant.

If you're into dinosaurs and sci-fi, I recommend these books.

www.amazon.com/Far-Seer-Book-Quintaglio-Ascension-Trilogy/dp/B000HWYL88/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235176201&sr=8-3
www.amazon.com/Fossil-Hunter-Book-Quintaglio-Ascension/dp/B001D7JJTC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235176201&sr=8-2
www.amazon.com/Foreigner-Three-Quintaglio-Ascension-Trilogy/dp/0765309726/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235176201&sr=8-5

[Ken'ichi]

Hm, looks interesting. I'm not much into Sci-Fi, but I'm a sucker for anthro dinosaurs. I'll look into it next time I'm at Borders.

Tell me a bit more about it, would you kindly?

[Night Bear]

Well I know mostly about the first book since it is the only one I read.

The first book depicts Afsan, who is the Galileo (sp?) of the Quintaglio homeworld. He discovers that the object that they long believed to be the Face of God is a planet, and that they are orbiting too close and their world will be destroyed. Now he has to convince the Quintaglios to make plans to get off the world before it is too late.

The second book involves a conspiracy to overthrow the current Emperor and a mystery involving the death of Afsan's children.

The third and final book involves a dangerous conflict with another sentient race, the Others.

The Quintaglios are a race of sentient dinosaurs that behave a lot like humans in many ways, and yet at the same time are so different. Quintaglios have larger personal spaces, they will go nuts if they get too close to one another for too long, and they eat only meat, just to name a few differences. But they are similar in other ways. They have a religion that they follow, they have a structured society, they have tamed animals, domesticating them for their own purpose, etc.

The Quintaglios as well as the other creatures of the moon (including sauropods, pterosaurs, and theropods) are not aliens that evolved there naturally; they are actually descendents of Earth's dinosaurs. 65 million years ago, an alien race took some dinosaurs from Earth and put them on this paritcular moon where they continued to evolve for millions of years. The Quintaglios are descendents of the tyrannosaur family, specifically Nanotyrannus.

I hope I didn't say too much.

[Ken'ichi]

Sounds interesting. I'll take a look into it next time I'm at Borders.

[Night Bear]

I've had to order mine since it wasn't in the store.