TY - BOOK AU - McCaffrey,Anne,author TI - The mystery of Ireta / SN - 0345467213 (pbk.) AV - PS3563.A255 M97 2004 U1 - 813.54 22 PY - 2004///, ©1978 CY - New York, New York PB - Del Rey/Ballantine Books, KW - Life on other planets KW - Fiction KW - Ireta (Imaginary place) N1 - Dinosaur planet -- Dinosaur planet survivors N2 - "The crew of shipbred technicians sent to the planet Ireta were prepared for a routine mission to catalog flora and fauna and search for new energy sources. Kai and his beautiful coleader Varian, the best xenob-vet in the business, followed all the standard procedures, but the result of their investigations was totally unexpected." "When their rescue ship mysteriously disappears, they suddenly find themselves surrounded by giant swamp creatures, deadly predators, and terrifying dinosaurs. And a curious change begins to come over many of the crew members--a mutinous change that will lead all of them, in one way or another, into the primitive darkness of a future world that holds many mysteries yet to be revealed. . . ."-- From publisher description ER -