What was the world like for people thousands of years ago? How can we know? Through fiction? This is a work of literary criticism, and more. It begins with a discussion of the problem of authenticity and then considers twelve pieces of fiction that depict human prehistory: H.G. Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau, Pierre Boulles The Planet of the Apes, Jules Vernes The Village in the Treetops, Edgar Rice Burroughs The Land That Time Forgot, the struggle for legitimacy in Wells "The Grisly Folk, " the Tasmanian analogue in Lester Del Reys "The Day Is Done, " William Goldings The Inheritors, "the promise of humanity" in Arthur C. Clarkes 2001: A Space Odyssey, the theme of "a god among the heathen" in Wells "The Lord of the Dynamos" and other works, Jean Auels The Clan of the Cave Bear, J.H. Rosny-Ans Quest for Fire, and Wells The Time Machine: An Invention. A final chapter considers the paleoanthropo
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