Rating: 
Summary: Claws
Review: Think Jaws with paws, and you've pretty much got the idea of this one. It's an old-fashioned 1970s style animal-monster-on-the loose story, though Fatalis is a little better than its genre.The characters are stock, but Rovin ponders several interesting subjects during the story, such as cryogenic preservation, the nature of instinct, ecological balance, the role of evolution and the question of extinction of species. Anyone interested in anthropology and American Indian lore will discover a lot of material on the Chumash tribe. Rovin's natural history of the cats is fascinating. Since no one's ever seen what a saber-tooth "tiger" really looks like, Rovin makes the cats his own. They're not really tigers, but described something more like outsize-incisored wildcats, and they behave more like a pride of lions. The explanation for their being around is a little hard to swallow, and once or twice they pull some tricks it's difficult to imagine any kind of big cat even attempting, but the author makes it credible enough to enjoy the ride. This is a very fast, very easy read, and very enjoyable as well.
| 
