David Walton is an American science fiction writer who lives in Philadelphia. His first novel, Terminal Mind (2008), shared the Philip K. Dick Award for the best original science-fiction paperback published in the United States. He followed it with Quintessence (2013) and Quintessence Sky (2013), Superposition (2015) and Supersymmetry (2015), and Three Laws Lethal (2019). The Genius Plague (2017) — a thriller in which two brothers are set against each other by a pandemic that exerts a subtle min...
Living Memory
Living Memory
Synopsis
When paleontologists Samira and Kit uncover a dinosaur bonebed in northern Thailand, the fossils turn out to carry the remains of an ancient genetic technology — the work of a civilization that rose and fell sixty-six million years before ours. It is a discovery that nations will kill to control.
The two are pulled into a web of murder and intrigue involving the Chinese Ministry of State Security, an Asian crime syndicate, the CIA, and a Thai princess, and are driven apart onto opposite sides of the world by the competing factions closing around them.
David Walton braids three strands — present-day Colorado, present-day Thailand, and the land that would one day become Thailand, sixty-six million years ago — into a thriller that is as interested in what the dinosaurs built as in who wants it now. It is the first book of a trilogy, followed by Deadly Memory and Memory Reborn.
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Characters
SamiraProtagonist
A paleontologist whose Thai dig uncovers the ancient genetic technology.
Master KitProtagonist
Samira's fellow paleontologist, separated from her by the factions racing for the find.
