Authors: Steve Cole
Astrosaurs 2
Contents
Chapter One: The Edge of Egg-Sti Notion!
Chapter Two: The Egg-Snatchers
Chapter Three: Expect the Un-Eggs-Pected!
Chapter Four: The Long, Long Journey
Chapter Five: Lightning Strikes Twice
Chapter Six: The Mysterious Planet
Chapter Seven: The Tunnels of Fear
Chapter Eight: The Secret of Platus Two
Chapter Ten: The End of the Egg
DINOSAURS . . . IN SPACE!
Meet Captain Teggs Stegosaur and the crew of the amazing spaceship DSS
Sauropod
as the
ASTROSAURS
fight evil across the galaxy!
Teggs is taking some desperate dinosaurs and their only eggs to begin a new life on a remote planet. But the planet is not what it seems, and some nasty egg-eating oviraptors are hot on their tail . . .
For Cassie and Nathan
THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT DINOSAURS?
The dinosaurs . . .
Big, stupid, lumbering reptiles. Right?
All they did was eat, sleep and roar a bit. Right?
Died out millions of years ago when a big meteor struck the Earth. Right?
Wrong!
The dinosaurs weren't stupid. They may have had small brains, but they used them well. They had big thoughts and big dreams.
By the time the meteor hit, the last dinosaurs had already left Earth forever. Some breeds had discovered how to travel through space as early as the Triassic period, and were already enjoying a new life among the stars.
No one has found evidence of dinosaur technology yet. But the first fossil bones were only unearthed in 1822, and new finds are being made all the time. The proof is out there, buried in the ground.
And the dinosaurs live on, way out in space, even now. They've settled down in a place they call the Jurassic Quadrant and over the last sixty-five million years they've gone on evolving . . .
The dinosaurs we'll be meeting are part of a special group called the Dinosaur Space Service. Their job is to explore space, to go on exciting missions and to fight evil and protect the innocent!
These heroic herbivores are not just dinosaurs.
They are astrosaurs!
NOTE: The following story has been translated from secret Dinosaur Space Service records. Earthling dinosaur names are used throughout, although some changes have been made for easy reading. There's even a guide to help you pronounce the dinosaur names at the back of the book.
How to say the prehistoric
names in this book . . .
STEGOSAURUS â
STEG-oh-SORE-us
COMPSOGNATHUS â
komp-soh-NAY-thus
PTEROSAUR â
TEH-roh-sore
HADROSAUR â
HAD-roh-sore
OVIRAPTOR â
OHV-ih-RAP-tor
TRICERATOPS â
try-SERRA-tops
DIMORPHODON â
die-MORF-oh-don
IGUANODON â
ig-WA-noh-don
ANKYLOSAURUS â
an-KI-loh-SORE-us
THE EDGE OF EGG-STI NOTION!
In a very big hall full of very big dinosaurs, a very big announcement was about to be made.
The Hall of Learning on the planet Odo Minor had never been more packed. Doctors, professors, scientists, TV cameras â they were all squashed up together. The sound of excited dinosaur chatter filled the hall. What was the big news? What had the great Professor Sog discovered now?
But two people in the hall already knew. And one of them didn't seem to care very much.
“I don't see why we had to come all this way!” grumbled Captain Teggs Stegosaur. “I haven't been in a learning hall since I passed my astrosaur exams!”
“Be patient, Captain,” his companion Gipsy hissed. “As soon as the talk's over, our mission can begin!”
“About time too,” Teggs declared. He was a captain in the Dinosaur Space Service, and he lived for adventure. With his brave crew of astrosaurs, he travelled through space in the DSS
Sauropod
, the finest ship in the Jurassic Quadrant.
