Dinotopia, the Glossary
Dinotopia is a series of illustrated fantasy books, created by author and illustrator James Gurney.[1]
Table of Contents
75 relations: Alan Dean Foster, Alyssa Milano, American Broadcasting Company, Antagonist, Artisan Entertainment, Blend word, Brad Strickland, Budapest, Children's literature, Cinefantastique, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, David Winning, Diary, Diedrich Bader, Dinosaur, Dinotopia (miniseries), Dinotopia (TV series), Dinotopia (video game), Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey, Dinotopia: The Timestone Pirates, Donald F. Glut, Dragonfly, Edgar Rice Burroughs, En plein air, Erik von Detten, Existence, Fantasy literature, George Lucas, George Segal, Georgina Rylance, Giganotosaurus, Halcyon Studios, Hardcover, HarperCollins, Hatchery, Hugo Award, Human, Human–dinosaur coexistence, James Gurney, Jamie Kennedy, John Vornholt, Jonathan Hyde, Kathy Griffin, Lisa Zane, Malcolm McDowell, Maquette, Michael Brandon, Michael Clarke Duncan, Microraptor, Midori Snyder, ... Expand index (25 more) »
- Book series introduced in 1992
- Children's novels about dinosaurs
- Fictional countries
- Fictional island countries
- Lost world novels
- Novels about dinosaurs
Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction.
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Alyssa Milano
Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress, producer, activist, and former singer.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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Antagonist
An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the main enemy and rival of the protagonist.
Artisan Entertainment
Artisan Entertainment (formerly known as U.S.A. Home Video, International Video Entertainment (IVE) and LIVE Entertainment) was an American film studio and home video company.
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Blend word
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.
Brad Strickland
William Bradley Strickland (born October 27, 1947) is an American writer known primarily for fantasy and science fiction.
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Budapest
Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.
Children's literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.
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Cinefantastique
Cinefantastique is an American horror, fantasy, and science fiction film magazine.
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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago.
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David Winning
David Winning is a Canadian-American film and television director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and occasional actor.
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Diary
A diary is a written or audiovisual memorable record, with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period.
Diedrich Bader
Karl Diedrich Bader (born December 24, 1966) is an American actor and comedian.
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
Dinotopia (miniseries)
Dinotopia is a television miniseries produced by Hallmark Entertainment in association with RTL Television Germany.
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Dinotopia (TV series)
Dinotopia is an American television series based on the series of illustrated books of the same name by James Gurney, in which three Americans have crash-landed a plane and found themselves on a remote uncharted island inhabited by people and dinosaurs.
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Dinotopia (video game)
Dinotopia is a 1996 adventure game developed by The Dreamers Guild and published by Turner Interactive for MS-DOS.
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Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey
Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey is a 2003 action-adventure video game released by Vicious Cycle Software for GameCube and Xbox.
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Dinotopia: The Timestone Pirates
Dinotopia: The Timestone Pirates is a platform based video game for Nintendo Game Boy Advance, developed by RFX Interactive and published by TDK Mediactive.
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Donald F. Glut
Donald F. Glut (born February 19, 1944) is an American writer, motion picture film director, and screenwriter.
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Dragonfly
A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres.
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En plein air
En plein air (French for 'outdoors'), or plein-air painting, is the act of painting outdoors.
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Erik von Detten
Erik Thomas von Detten (born October 3, 1982) is an American actor and singer.
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Existence
Existence is the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing.
Fantasy literature
Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world.
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist.
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George Segal
George Segal Jr. (February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American actor.
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Georgina Rylance
Georgina Elizabeth Rylance (born 20 April 1976) is an English actress, best known for Dinotopia.
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Giganotosaurus
Giganotosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina, during the early Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 99.6 to 95 million years ago.
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Halcyon Studios
Halcyon Studios, LLC., formerly known as Sonar Entertainment, RHI Entertainment, Hallmark Entertainment, Qintex Entertainment, HRI Group and Robert Halmi Inc., was an American entertainment company specializing in the production and distribution of scripted television content, part of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment.
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Hardcover
A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
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Hatchery
A hatchery is a facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish, poultry or even turtles.
Hugo Award
The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members.
Human
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.
Human–dinosaur coexistence
The coexistence of avian dinosaurs (birds) and humans is well established historically and in modern times.
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James Gurney
James Gurney (born June 14, 1958) is an American artist and author known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th-century explorer's journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs.
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Jamie Kennedy
James Harvey Kennedy (born May 25, 1970) is an American actor and comedian.
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John Vornholt
John Blair Vornholt (born February 14, 1951) is an American author, screenwriter and journalist.
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Jonathan Hyde
Jonathan Stephen Geoffrey King (born 21 May 1948), known professionally as Jonathan "Nash" Hyde, is an Australian actor.
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Kathy Griffin
Kathleen Mary Griffin (born November 4, 1960) is an American comedian and actress.
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Lisa Zane
Lisa Zane (born April 5, 1961)Skin, Mr.
Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943) is an English actor.
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Maquette
A maquette is a scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture or work of architecture.
Michael Brandon
Michael Brandon (born Michael Feldman; April 20, 1945) is an American actor.
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Michael Clarke Duncan
Michael Clarke Duncan (December 10, 1957September 3, 2012) was an American actor.
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Microraptor
Microraptor (Greek, μικρός, mīkros: "small"; Latin, raptor: "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs.
Midori Snyder
Midori Snyder is an American writer of fantasy, mythic fiction, and nonfiction on myth and folklore.
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Naboo
Naboo is a fictional planet in the Star Wars universe.
National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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Ornithopter
An ornithopter (from Greek ornis, ornith- 'bird' and pteron 'wing') is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings.
Paperback
A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.
Peter David
Peter Allen David (born September 23, 1956), often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games.
Postosuchus
Postosuchus, meaning "Crocodile from Post", is an extinct genus of rauisuchid reptiles comprising two species, P. kirkpatricki and P. alisonae, that lived in what is now North America during the Late Triassic.
Protagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a story.
Protoceratops
Protoceratops is a genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, around 75 to 71 million years ago.
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Pteranodon
Pteranodon; from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pteron 'wing') and ἀνόδων (anodous, anodontos 'toothless') is a genus of pterosaur that included some of the largest known flying reptiles, with P. longiceps having a wingspan of over.
Pterosaur
Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.
Quetzalcoatlus
Quetzalcoatlus is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian age of North America.
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Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.
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Scaphognathus
Scaphognathus was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic.
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Scott Ciencin
Malcolm Scott Ciencin (September 1, 1962 – August 5, 2014) was an American author of adult and children's fiction.
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Skybax
The skybax (Quetzalcoatlus skybax) is a fictional creature in the Dinotopia fantasy book series.
Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
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Stenonychosaurus
Stenonychosaurus (meaning "narrow claw lizard") is a genus of troodontid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada, as well as possibly the Two Medicine Formation.
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Symbiosis
Symbiosis (from Greek,, "living with, companionship, camaraderie", from,, "together", and, bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species, termed symbionts, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.
Tara Strong
Tara Lyn Strong (born February 12, 1973) is a Canadian and American actress.
Traditional animation
Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand.
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Triceratops
Triceratops is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America.
Tyrannosaurus
Tyrannosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur.
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Wayne Knight
Wayne Elliot Knight (born August 7, 1955) is an American actor.
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Wisdom
Wisdom (sapience, sagacity) is the act of using one's depth and breadth of knowledge and experience to do good by oneself and others.
Zippo
A Zippo lighter is a reusable metal lighter produced by Zippo Manufacturing Company of Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
See also
Book series introduced in 1992
- A History of the University in Europe
- Clue (book series)
- Dinotopia
- Goosebumps
- Goosebumps (original series)
- Homecoming Saga
- Honorverse
- Jedi Prince series
- Junie B. Jones
- Legacy of the Drow
- Magic Tree House
- New Zealand and the Korean War
- The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1975
- Tuva-Lisa
Children's novels about dinosaurs
- Astrosaurs
- Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo
- Dinosaurs Don't Die
- Dinotopia
- Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
- Speedy in Oz
- The Fantastic Dinosaur Adventure
- The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs
- Tunnel Through Time
- Urmel from the Ice Age
- We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (book)
- You Are Umasou
Fictional countries
- Atlantis (Aquaman)
- Balnibarbi
- Bitnation
- Bookland
- Castalia
- Dinotopia
- Equestria
- Fables (comics)
- Fattypuffs and Thinifers
- Fictional country
- Gamehendge
- Geography of the Odyssey
- Glubbdubdrib
- Gondal (fictional country)
- Graustark
- Grinlandia
- Homelands (Fables)
- Listenbourg
- Liyue (Genshin Impact)
- Lower Slobbovia
- Luggnagg
- Madripoor
- Mag Mell
- Map of Tendre
- McDonaldland
- Neverland
- Passport to Pimlico
- Saint Marie (fictional island)
- San Serriffe
- Spensonia
- Xanth
Fictional island countries
- Atlantis
- Dinotopia
- Genosha
- Glubbdubdrib
- Gondal (fictional country)
- Houyhnhnm
- Lilliput and Blefuscu
- Luggnagg
- Madripoor
- Meropis
- Patusan
- Saint Marie (fictional island)
- San Escobar
- San Serriffe
- Spensonia
- Themyscira (DC Comics)
Lost world novels
- A Strange Discovery
- A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
- Allan Quatermain (novel)
- An Antarctic Mystery
- At the Earth's Core (novel)
- At the Mountains of Madness
- Ayesha (novel)
- Beatrice the Sixteenth
- By the Gods Beloved
- Congo (novel)
- Dinotopia
- Dwellers in the Mirage
- Erewhon
- Erewhon Revisited
- Hidden World (novel)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- King Solomon's Mines
- Kull (short story collection)
- Lost Horizon
- Plutonia (novel)
- Pym (novel)
- She and Allan
- She: A History of Adventure
- Symzonia
- Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
- The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"
- The Bowl of Baal
- The Face in the Abyss
- The Golden Lake
- The Ice People (Barjavel novel)
- The Lost World (Crichton novel)
- The Lost World (Doyle novel)
- The Man Who Would Be King
- The Metal Monster
- The Moon Pool
- The Nameless City
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
- The People of the Mist
- The Red Gods
- The Return of Tarzan
- The Secret People
- The Shadow Kingdom
- The Smoky God
- The Village in the Treetops
- Vril
- When the World Shook
- Wisdom's Daughter
- Yellow Men Sleep
Novels about dinosaurs
- A Statue for Father
- An Age
- Anonymous Rex (novel)
- At the Earth's Core (novel)
- Back to the Stone Age
- Bones of the Earth
- Carnosaur (novel)
- Day of the Hunters
- Dinosaur Planet (novel)
- Dinosaur Planet Survivors
- Dinotopia
- Evolution (Baxter novel)
- Far-Seer
- Foreigner (Sawyer novel)
- Fossil Hunter
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Jurassic Park (novel)
- Land of Terror
- Mahars of Pellucidar
- Out of Time's Abyss
- Pellucidar (novel)
- Plutonia (novel)
- Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy
- Raptor Red
- Return to Eden (novel)
- Savage Pellucidar
- Tanar of Pellucidar
- Tarzan the Terrible
- The Bowl of Baal
- The Face in the Abyss
- The Great Dinosaur Robbery
- The Land That Time Forgot (novel)
- The Last Days of Dinosaurs (book)
- The Lost World (Crichton novel)
- The Lost World (Doyle novel)
- The People That Time Forgot (novel)
- The Stones of Nomuru
- The Venom Trees of Sunga
- The Wizard of Lemuria
- Think Like a Dinosaur
- Thongor Against the Gods
- Thongor Fights the Pirates of Tarakus
- Thongor at the End of Time
- Thongor in the City of Magicians
- Thongor of Lemuria
- West of Eden
- Winter in Eden
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia
Also known as Code of Dinotopia, Dinotopia (island), Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone.
, Naboo, National Geographic, Ornithopter, Paperback, Peter David, Postosuchus, Protagonist, Protoceratops, Pteranodon, Pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus, Random House, Scaphognathus, Scott Ciencin, Skybax, Steam engine, Stenonychosaurus, Symbiosis, Tara Strong, Traditional animation, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Wayne Knight, Wisdom, Zippo.