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USA Today – May 25, 2006 -- Natural Selection,
By Dave Freedman, Hyperion, 414 pp., $21.95, June 27 -- Jaws meets
Charles Darwin in Dave Freedman's debut novel, Natural Selection, a
maritime horror story. Freedman, a former Wall Street executive,
creates a survival-of-the-fittest predator from the deepest depths
that can snack on mere sharks. The creature, forced to look for new
food sources by an underwater virus, is a supersized, hostile kind
of stingray. It's hungry, learning to fly and comes with a set of
teeth "more powerful than the crushing mechanisms of most garbage
trucks."
The novel opens with a question: "Aren't dinosaurs, crocodiles,
lions and sharks really...
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Booklist – May 15, 2006 -- Natural Selection,
Dave Freedman, Hyperion, 414 pp., $21.95 -- This debut novel changes
before your very eyes. It begins as an implausible riff on Jurassic
Park, with carnivorous rays (those big, flat sea creatures) standing
in for the dinosaurs. But somewhere along the way, something
remarkable happens to the story: you start believing it. Is it the
author's enthusiasm, or his characters, or his research? Whatever
the reason, there comes a moment when you feel the first twinge of
fear, and then you realize that you're buying into this story of
giant, prehistoric rays...
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