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Two eras have fascinated science-fiction writers since the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species and H.G. Wells's The Time Machine: An Invention--the prehistoric past and the far-future.
Writers like Arthur Conan Doyle in The Lost World and Edgar Rice Burroughs in The Land That Time Forgot have sought to portray prehistory--bringing to life the creatures only known through the fossil record. Olaf Stapledon in Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future and Laurence Manning in The Man Who Awoke have sought to depict the far future--and humanity's final destiny.
Les Anthropoïdes
Bessette, Gérard
Montréal: Les Éditions La Presse, 1977.
In prehistoric times, the anthropoid horde of Kalahoumes lives on the edge of the sea-of-sand. Guito, a young male, is undergoing the final phase of his initiation, which will make him the horde's "story-teller". He goes over his public performance in his mind, tracing the history of the horde's slow journey up from animality.
Copyright Gérard Bessette
a/s UNEQ.
Eyas
Kilian, Crawford
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart - Bantam, 1982.
The people of Longstrand lived in peace until their sea goddess placed the mark of the hawk on one child who revived the art of war and reclaimed his people's ancient heritage.
Voices in Time
MacLennan, Hugh
Markham, Ont.: Penguin Books, 1981.
Presented as an old man's memories of a time when the "murder of truth led to the murder of people" and finally to the destruction of a civilization, Voices in Time speaks of an Orwellian-type, totalitarian bureaucracy.
In the Morning of Time
Roberts, Charles G.D.
London; Toronto: J.M. Dent, 1923.
Tracing a path from a prehistoric world even before dinosaurs walked the Earth, In the Morning of Time describes the beginning of human society and such discoveries as fire and the bow to a time when cave dwellers moved on to a more pastoral existence. This work is worth a comparison with William Golding's The Inheritors because of the similarity of tone and subject matter.
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