Anthropological science fictions (prehistoric science fictions) for teens & adults

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Almost Adam, Petru Popescu. DESCRIPTION: In a remote region of Kenya, a paleoanthropologist discovers the real missing link in the evolutionary chain. A young boy, a living fossil, is a proto-human, a classification believed to have been extinct for three million years. When a high-powered conspiracy forces the scientist and the boy to take refuge deep within the jungle, a bond of trust and friendship forms. REVIEW: I enjoyed this novel immensely. It is so lavishly detailed and descriptive that I felt transported into the isolated African savanna and jungle of the Dogilani. My criticism is that the story is too long because of too much effort spent on the political and love story subplots. Still, many readers like this aspect as well! Almost Adam is a best-seller, and not by accident.

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At Earth’s Core, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Soon to be reviewed. For the print novel, try inter-library loan.

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Back to the Stone Age, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Action-packed, perhaps too much so. Here, I must give the venerable Burroughs a B+, not an A. The description is breathtaking but the machismo and escapes of hero Von are too predictable and almost repetative. One does come to care about him, and his relationship with La-ja. But the plot is predictable. Overall, a very good adventure and a fairly quick read that will not strain the brain. Try inter-library loan.

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The Cave Girl, A.C. McClurg. Soon to be reviewed. Try inter-library loan.

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Child of Time, Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg. Not reviewed. Try inter-library loan.

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Ember from the Sun, Mark Canter. This heart-warming tale treats readers to an experience of the emotional side of Neanderthals: their spiritual identity, demise and rebirth. Description is extensive, vivid and inspiring. Protagonist Ember Ozette is a lonesome Neanderthal girl who was harvested from her frozen mother's womb to mature among modern humans. 'Modern' does not mean nicer, however. Physically a Neanderthal and spiritually more human than moderns are, Ember yearns for acceptance. She endures ridicule yet reaches out in courageous empathy, eventually searching for her identity and purpose in life. She finds that she can link, as her ancestors did, to the souls of others to feel their pain and joy. Through engaging talks with her adoptive sister, mother and other moderns with whom she relates, she gains strength to persevere in her often solitary and occasionally dangerous quest. Ultimately she discovers that regeneration, for her and for her once-butchered people, is manifest more through the life-giving miracle of forgiveness than through medical technology. Publisher description: When a modern forensic scientist discovers a pregnant Neanderthal, preserved for centuries in arctic ice, he implants the tiny embryo in a surrogate mother and Ember Ozette, a Neanderthal infant, is born. Raised among the Quanoot Indians in Washington state, Ember's otherness is a source of great shame and confusion to her--until she seeks out a band of mysterious golden-skinned people--the last of her race--who are fleeing genocide.

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Esau, Phillip Kerr. This story is a near-copy of Darnton's Neanderthal but much better written. It was necessary that a copy of Neanderthal be written by a more talented writer and, therefore, the blatent heist is the reader's gain. Here's the story line from the publisher as reprinted from Amazon: Abominable snowmen, downed satellites, Pakistan and India on the threshold of war--Philip Kerr packs his latest novel with one thrill after another. It begins at the top, or at least very near it. Just as Jack Furness makes it within striking distance of a forbidden Himalayan mountain summit, all hell breaks loose. An enormous avalanche kills his partner (not to mention his Sherpa party further down the mountain) and traps Jack in a cave. There he finds the skull that become the focal point of Esau. Once down from the mountain, Jack takes the skull to Dr. Stella Swift, his former lover and a paleontologist. She recognizes in it a "missing link," an alternative line of hominid development: the Yeti. This discovery inspires another expedition up the killer mountain, but this time the danger doesn't come from nature alone: the U.S. military has planted among the climbers an agent whose mission is to recover a downed satellite ... at any cost.

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The Eternal Savage, Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Tarzan story. Not reviewed. Try inter-library loan.

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Hadon of Ancient Opar, Philip Jose Farmer. Not reviewed. Try inter-library loan or Amazon's search service.

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The Land that Time Forgot, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Soon to be reviewed. Try inter-library loan and:

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Link, Walt Becker. Now, here’s an amazing tale! Pay close attention because you may one day find that this fiction is unsettlingly close to fact. Link is a tale of adventure that draws from recent archaeological and linguistic discoveries. These discoveries strongly suggest that human civilization, perhaps even our genes, may have been influenced by visiting extraterrestrials – who themselves may have known our God. This is not as far-fetched as it may seem, for Link fictionalizes only the characters and story line, not the vast amount of supporting evidence for this intriguing hypothesis. Becker weaves this evidence into his prose seamlessly, but even scientists may want to read it, for this novel is an irresistible catalog of factual material worthy of further investigation. A meticulous bibliography is also provided. The tale itself reads well, carrying readers along with artfully penned mystery, discovery, romance, terror, and catharsis. Dr. Samantha Colby unearths a hominoid yet alien-featured skeleton in Africa, along with a shining artifact from an ancient civilization. To trace the origin of these, she needs the help of a specialist – her former fiancé, Dr. Jack Austin. After a hair-raising escape from natives, the artifact leads them to Tihuanaco in Bolivia. Their sleuthing draws them beneath these mysterious ruins, where the pair ultimately fight a double-crossing sponsor, dangerous labyrinths, and competing emotions of resentment and love – only to fight for their lives and the very survival of humanity. Few storytellers can captivate readers by evoking the thrill of discovery, that dawning awe at the majestic, frantic impulses to survival, and the irresistible tug of love. Becker has accomplished all of this in Link while helping to strip parochialism from the search for humanity’s past. An important work, Link is strongly recommended for fiction and non-fiction readers alike.

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The Lost Kingdom, Clint Kelly. To be reviewed. A modern "Indy" type explorer finds Mokele-mbembe and thrills in unexplored African rainforest.

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Orphan of Creation, Roger MacBride Allen. To be reviewed. Willy Mammoth's description: On a Thanksgiving trip home, a Smithsonian paleoanthropologist discovers memoirs of a slave ancestor describing the "beasts" working beside them in the fields and a near uprising when the overseer tries to bury these "beasts" in the slave cemetery. Thinking she's found an account of an early gorilla importation, the scientist follows the description of the burial and unearths on the ancestral home not a gorilla but a group of 19th Century australopithecus robustus. The story continues with a safari to West Africa and deals with the definition of humanity. Out of print; try interlibrary loan or Amazon's search service.

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The Pleistocene Redemption, Dan Gallagher. An author can't review his own work! So, please read the comments of others by pressing the hypertext below. By way of description, it is an allegory, spanning twenty years of future scientific and spiritual discovery. Geneticist Kevin G. Harrigan learns more about human nature and destiny than he wanted! He redeems fossil genetic material to regenerate fantastic animals, including human sub-species, which became extinct over the last several hundred thousand years. "At the dawn of humanity, a whisper was heard amidst the din of fantastic beasts. Soon, the voice and the beasts will be heard again. But will this herald a new dawn ... or the sunset of humankind?" As science fiction, this work follows in the footsteps of Jurassic Park but is no rehash of it at all! As spiritual thriller, it is a sharp and controversial retort to The Celestine Prophecy.

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Tale from the Time of the Cave Men, Stanley Waterloo. Soon to be reviewed.