Prehistoric Fiction : Bibliography Home Main List Title Index Chronological Index Author Index Bulletin Board03/22/08Prehistoric Fiction BibliographyEnglish Titles All French Titles1097 titles "pure" (543) -  juvenile (186) -  prehistoric-related (260) Bronze Age (16) -  Iron Age (6) -  Reference (23) "pure" story -  juvenile story -  prehistoric-related storyClick codes shown in boxes (or images) to view at Amazon.com (etc.)AA B - C D E - F G H I - J K L M - N O P R - S T U V W Y Z Top Indexes Home Abadi, Aharon. 1954. Ga Eino Yare. Hebrew. (Ga Does Not Fear). Tel Aviv. Prehistoric man and his discovery of fire. Abbott, Charles T., M.D.. 1899. The Cliff Dweller's Daughter; or, How He Loved Her. An Indian Romance of Prehistoric Times. 299 pp. 20 cm, New York & London. F.Tennyson Neely.´ Achermann, Franz Heinrich [1881-1946]. 1918. Auf der Fährte des Höhlenlöwen. German. (On the trail of the cave-lion). 238 pp. Olten. O. Walter.´ _____. 1918. Der Schass der Pfahlbauers. German. (The Schass of the pile-houses). 238 pp. Olten. O. Walter.´ _____. 1920. Die Jäger von Thursee. German. (The hunters of Thursee). 299 pp. Olten. O. Walter.´ _____. 1924. Kanibalen der Eiszeit. German. (Cannibals of the ice age). 200 pp. Olten. O. Walter.´ _____. 1928. Der Totenrufer von Halodin. German. (The Death-callers of Halodin). 541 pp. Olten. O. Walter.´ _____. 1933. Dämonentänzer der Urzeit. Roman aus der Wildnissen 2. Eisenzeit. German. (Demon-dancers of the primeval. A novel of the wilderness 2. The Iron age). 240 pp. Olten. O. Walter.´ Adkin, James Harry Knight. 1905. The Woman-Stealers: tales of the house of the otter. see Knight-Adkin, James Harry. Aidans, Edouard. 1961-. Tounga. French. (Tounga).     Tounga apparaît dans "Tintin". Imaginé par Edouard Aidans, cet homme de la pierre vit dans la tribu des Ghmours avec Nooun le boiteux, la belle Ohama et son tigre apprivoisé Aramh, à une époque où la vie sauvage n'était pas vraiment propice au développement d'un quelconque embryon de civilisation.Tounga appeared in "Tintin". Created by Edouard Aidans, this man of stone lives in the tribe of the Ghmours with Nooun the lame, the beautiful Ohama, and his tame tiger Aramh, at a time when the savage life was not very auspicious to the development of any embryo of civilization. bibliography Aldiss, Brian Wilson [1925-]. 1969. Neanderthal Planet. (with 3 other stories, Danger: Religion! / Intangibles Inc. / Since the Assassination). (192) 56 pp. New York. Avon. ISBN: 0380541971.*  A science fiction story of a future Earth "ruled" by automatons, and a man who wrote a story explaining how the Neanderthal / Cro-Magnon split of the human brain could fully develop... if man were removed from his place of origin... _____. 1970. Un pizzico di Neandertal. Italian. translated from the English Neanderthal Planet by Vittorio Curtoni. in: Anonima Intangibili (Intangibles, Inc. and Other Stories, [1969] 1970). illustrated by Ferruccio Alessandri (cover). 158(2) pp. 18.4 cm. Galassia 130, Piacenza. Casa Editrice La Tribuna. Allain, Marcel. nd (ca. 1942). Les Vainqueurs de la mort. French. (The Conquerors of Death). illustrated by Robert Dansler. 64 pp. 15 cm, pbk, series "Œil de Faucon", Paris. S.F.E.P.I. Two young men and a girl discover a strange subterranean race: a real prehistoric tribe, rather agressive."Margaret Allan" — W.T. "Bill" Quick — has a web page at www.iw3p.com/quick.shtml. Allan, Margaret. (pseudonym for W.T. "Bill" Quick). 1993. The Mammoth Stone. 391 pp. 18 cm, New York. Signet. ISBN: 0451174976 (pbk.).* The People of the Mammoth have wandered the world for thousands of years, surviving starvation and predators, fleeing the ever encroaching ice, following the mammoth herds for life and sustenance. It is now 18,000 BC, in North America, and they arrive at the place of prophecy, where a girl is born with the mark of the Great Mother, and the time of their wandering is at an end. Maya is treated as an outcast by all but Magic, the shaman, and Berry, the elder who takes the role of her mother. Scorned even by her own father, she is most hated by the demented Ghost, who longs for her death and that of Magic, and the time when he alone will wield power. Tricked into losing the Mammoth Stone talisman, Maya unwittingly causes Magic's death, and with Ghost's ascendency, the near devastation of the people. As Maya flees bloody and mindless, searching for her own death, she is found by the People of the Bison, and takes up a new life, having lost all memory of her previous one. But a final great confrontation is forced between the two peoples, and the power of the Mammoth Stone is put to the test. _____. 1994. Keeper of the Stone. 431 pp. 18 cm, New York. Signet. ISBN: 0451181328 (pbk.).* A beautiful outcast woman in a passionate epic of prehistoric America--the sequel to The Mammoth Stone. The legend of the powers of the mammoth stone continues with the torrid ostracizing of Maya, the Shaman and keeper of the stone. An intensely dramatic and highly erotic story set in the prehistoric American Southwest. _____. 1995. The Last Mammoth. 396 pp. 18 cm, New York. Signet. ISBN: 0451184637 (pbk.).* The People of the Mammoth had reached the edge of doom. The Great Maya had left the world of the living. The sacred Mammoth Stone had shattered. No longer did the People have safe have in the fertile Green Valley. But only the Shaman Gotha knew how close they were to extinction. And even he did not know that their sole hope lay in the youth Rising Sun, as yet unaware of his divine birthright and sacred mission... and the passionately rebellious girl Running Deer, who vowed to be worthy of her ancestor, the Great Maya herself.Together these two, and the apprentice, Moon Face, had to journey to the ends of the world... through jungles of terror and spiritual wastelands... to the abandoned thrones of the Gods... to the yawning darkness where the halves of the lost Mammoth Stone waited to be rejoined... to a searing, all-encompassing struggle against nameless, faceless evil that would decide their yoked fates and the fate of all humankind... _____. 1998. Spirits Walking Woman. 416 pp. pbk, New York. Onyx Books. ISBN: 0451190394.* Thousands of years ago, at the dawn of history, a young girl grows to womanhood in a land torn by greed, brutality and war. She is Spirits Walking Woman, worshipped by her people and possessed of the divine gift of prophecy that sets her apart. Now, as the mate of a mighty warrior king, she is expected to take her place in the vast empire he ruthlessly rules. But another fate calls to Spirits Walking Woman. It is a destiny that will take her far from the intrigues of the royal court and the dangerous plotting of a woman bound to her by blood... a destiny that will set her on the path to peace and enlightenment... and draw her to a proud, noble stranger who offers a passion as powerful as it is forbidden. _____. 1999. Sister of the Sky. 384 pp. pbk, New York. Onyx Books. ISBN: 0451190408.* Twenty-five thousand years ago, in the land that would one day be known as Mexico, a woman's destiny was harsh and uncertain, her life at the mercy of brutal Gods and customs. But the young and resourceful Green Eyes Blue was blessed with a special gift — the mysterious eyes of a Goddess — and her fate would prove to be as extraordinary as her beauty.In a forest near her native village, she discovers a sacred jade knife while hunting game, but is kidnapped by bandits and taken away to be sold into slavery. Using the knife in a struggle to free herself, Green Eyes Blue badly injures the most savage of the bandits. He is a fierce enemy whose wrath she can never hope to escape — even after she is sold to Lord Golden Hand and carried off to the capital city of Tollan. There, as wife and mother, she must forge a new life — and fight for her kingdom and her home. For the enemies of her past, the worshippers of the Dark Gods, are trying to steal away her only chance for happiness. A destiny that, only through the strength and will of her own heart, will shine forever.Roger MacBride Allen's home page is at www.sff.net/people/Roger.Allen/. Allen, Roger MacBride [1957-]. 1988. Orphan of Creation: contact with the human past. 345 pp. New York. Baen Books, dist. by Simon & Schuster. ISBN: 0671653563.* A black anthropologists finds evidence of australopithecines in the US while studying slavery.On the day after tomorrow, on a backwoods farm in Mississippi, a paleontologist unearths the bones of a creature that could never have lived in that time or place. The incredible find brings its discoverers to the deepest forests of western Africa, and face to face with a miracle older than Man.more... _____. (1988) 1998. Waisen der Schöpfung. German. translated from the English Orphan of Creation by Walter Brumm. 446 pp. München. Heyne. ISBN: 3453139984. Wie jedes Jahr feiert die Paläoanthropologin Barbara Marchando das Erntedankfest in Gowrie House, dem geräumigen Landsitz der Familie. Beim Stöbern auf dem staubigen Dachboden zieht sie die alte verschlossene Truhe ihres schon längst verstorbenen Ururgroßvaters magisch an. Während unten die letzten Teller des Festtagsessens in den Fächern des Geschirrschrankes klappern, beschließt sie, die Kiste zu öffnen, an die sie sich weder in der Kindheit noch in den späteren Jahren herangewagt hatte. Von nun an ist es mit der beschaulichen Feiertagsruhe vorbei. more... Almqvist, Bertil [1902-1972]. 1948. Barna Hedenhös. Swedish. (The Stone Age Kids). Stockholm. A. Bonnier.  series titles include:Barna Hedenhös besöker EnglandBarna Hedenhös blir kungliga och Sverige för sin första regering (1954)Barna Hedenhös hittar hemBarna Hedenhös i världsrymdenBarna Hedenhös på Mallorca (1969)Barna Hedenhös på vinterresa i Sverige (1951)Barna Hedenhös resan till StockholmenBarna Hedenhös reser till EgyptenBarna Hedenhös reser till RysslandBarna Hedenhös upptäcker Amerika (1950)Den stora boken om barna Hedenhös _____. (1948) 1962. The Stone Age Kids Discover America. translated from the Swedish Barna Hedenhös upptäcker Amerika by Gerry Bothmer. comic, col. ill. 24 pp. 28 cm, New York. Macmillan Co. series titles include:The Stones explore Britain, tr Hugh Young. London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1975. _____. (1948) 1958. La Famille Mironton. French. translated from the Swedish Barna Hedenhös. 24 pp. 27 cm, "Préhistoire... de rire", Albon, Levallois-Perret. series titles include:La Famille Mironton découvre l'amérique (1958)La Famille Mironton dans l'espace (1958) _____. (1948) 1949. Die Steinzeitkinder in Ägypten. Ihre abenteuerliche Reise und glückliche Heimkehr. German. translated from the Swedish Barna Hedenhös. 20 pp. Staling-Bilderbuch Nr. 127. (1955) _____. (1948) 1975. La Familia Milenios. Spanish. translated from the Swedish Barna Hedenhös by Patricia Mathews & Maria del Carmen Muina. [24] pp. 26 cm, Barcelona. Editorial Juventud. ISBN: 8426157351.series titles include:La Familia Milenios descubre América (1955, 1975)= Expedicion Ant-Tiki o la familia Milenios descubre AméricaLa Familia Milenios en el escacio (1975)La Familia Milenios viaja a Egipto (1975) Ames, Gerald & Wyler, Rose. 1958. The First People in the World. illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. 48 pp. New York. Harper & Row. (London: Blackie, 1961. 1st Br.)  "Superb introduction to the imaginary story of mankind, and young readers will find it both thrilling and fascinating to imagine themselves among the first chldren on earth. Imagine a band of people wandering through strange country in search of food. Speech is still new to them and their vocabulary is about that of a 3 year old child today. But they are human beings who can think, plan, laugh and cry. They are far removed from the animals around them. The wonderful story of man's growth and development is presented here in a brilliant and lively panorama. The glorious, light-filled pictures and the clear simplicity of the words give the reader a sensitive and scientific portrayal of the life of early man." Amplaing, Max d'. 1949. Zingh l'homme des cavernes. French. (Zing the Caveman). illustrated by E. Carrière. 128 pp. 18 cm, pbk, S.T.A.E.L., «Junior» n° 48. Anderson, Mary [1872-1964]. 1893. A Son of Noah. London. Digby, Long. (3rd ed, Digby, Long & Co., Publishers. 18 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, E.C. 318pp, nd; 4th ed., nd.)* John Clute writes of A Son of Noah in the Encyclopedia of Science-Fiction (1995), "...features many of the conventions of prehistoric sf with the added spice of pterodactyl-worship on the part of a speciously advanced race. But the Flood will soon clear the air." It is not included in Brian Stableford's ESF article, "Origin of Man," a succinct survey of the prehistoric genre, nor in Angenot and Khouri's International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction (1981). But David Pringle mentions it in his Introduction to the 1999 Pulp Fictions edition of Henry Rider Haggard's Allan and the Ice Gods...more... Anderson, Poul (William) [1926-2001]. 1957. The Long Remembering. in: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November, 1957. (1975: Homeward and Beyond, Doubleday; 1977: Trips in Time, Nelson; 1987: Silverberg et al, eds. Neanderthals, pp 91-105)* A graduate student volunteers to go back in time, where he lives briefly as his Cro-Magnon ancestor of the Old Stone Age, more than 20,000 years before. He "relives" his recapturing of his wife, Evavy, from the Neanderthals. _____. 1957. Souvenir lointain. French. translated from the English The Long Remembering by Francis Carsac. in: Fiction 56, July, 1958. (1975: in "Histoires de voyages dans le temps," Livre de poche 3772, ISBN 2-253-00769-2)   _____. 1958. Il ricordo. Italian. translated from the English The Long Remembering by Giorgio Monicelli. in: Visto Anno VII n. 31, 2 ago 1958, p.34. illustrated by L. Jeva. Milano.× _____. 1990. The Shield of Time. 359 pp. 25 cm, 1st edition, New York. Tor. ISBN: 0312850883 (pbk 0812510003.* Not prehistoric man. Manse Everard is a man with a mission. As an Unattached Agent of the Time Patrol, he's to go anyplace - and anytime! - where humanity's transcendent future is threatened by the alteration of the past. This is Manse's profession, and his burden: for how much suffering, throughout human history, can he bear to "preserve"?Wanda Tamberley is a Patrol member in search of her mission. Recruited from sunny California in the late 20th century, she'd rather serve as a scientist in the research branch, exploring Earth's flora and fauna in epochs long past. But as hints accumulate from the Patrol's mysterious leaders uptime, it's beginning to look as if a lot of human history depends on her personal decisions - and Manse's.Meanwhile the Exaltationists are on the loose, determined to revise human history and rule Time forever... and Manse Everard is sworn to stop them, no matter what the heartbreaking cost! Andrews, J.S.. 1970. The Man from the Sea. 154 pp. 1st edition, London. The Bodley Head. ISBN: 0525345302. (New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1971)*  Bodley Head DuttonWhen Euan found a shipwrecked stranger on the rocks near his village one windy dawn, his first feeling was one of anger that this dark man with the beautiful woven wool tunic was not his own father, lost at sea with all the other men of the primitive little fishing community some weeks before. Now the women and children who remained were on the verge of starvation, and lived in dread of enslavement by neighbouring peoples. more...Claude Anet (Jean Schopfer) [1868-1931]Jean Schopfer was born in Switzerland in 1868 and educated at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre in Paris. In addition to his talents as a writer, Schopfer in 1892 won the tennis championship of France. He wrote the first of his many books in 1899. For most of his travel books and novels he used the pen name, Claude Anet. During the first World War a Paris journal sent him to Russia, and that trip resulted in his four-volume work, La Révolution Russe. A playwright as well, his Mayerling is perhaps his best known work of that type. Schopfer died in 1931. (at: www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/schopfer.htm.) Anet, Claude (pseudonym for Jean Schopfer) [1868-1931]. 1925. La Fin d'un monde. French. (The end of a world). 274 pp. Paris. B. Grasset.´ _____. (1925) 1927. The End of a World. translated from the French La Fin d'un monde by Jeffery E. Jeffery (pseud. Jeffery Eardley Marston [1887-]). [3],3-268, illus. 1 pp. 20 cm, New York, London. A.A. Knopf.´*  The story of the last days of the People of the Bear, at the end of the Reindeer Age, when the reindeer that had formed the center of their lives for uncountable generations failed to return, and the round-heads with their packs of tame dogs appeared, and they were unable to stop them from settling around them...more... Angeletti, Roberta. 1999. The cave painter of Lascaux (A Journey Through Time). (Ages 9-12) see Lascaux, la préhistoire merveilleuse. 32 pp. 29 cm, New York. Oxford University Press Children's Books. ISBN: 0195215583. Cecilia is on a school trip to the Lascaux caves in southern France--a mysterious place with well-preserved prehistoric paintings on the walls. These are believed to have been created by our primitive ancestors several hundred thousand years ago. The little girl notices some strange footprints on the ground. Following them, she walks away from the other children and arrives in a dark, wide hall. She is about to turn on her flashlight, when suddenly ... Flash! Her camera flash goes off and lights up the paintings of deer and hunters on the walls. The flash goes off again and she sees more animals chiseled in the walls. In the dark, she feels someone trying to pull the camera off her neck. Frightened, she turns around and sees a primitive man. He gestures to her that he is the painter of the walls. Leading her out of the cave, he tries to start a fire by striking two sticks against each other. Cecilia has to get back, because her school bus is leaving, but she leaves the primitive man a box of matches as a farewell gift. Three pages at the end of the story explain how prehistoric people lived, what tools they used, how they painted, and how they hunted. Angenot, Marc, and Nadia Khouri. 1981. An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction. in: Science-Fiction Studies #23 (Vol. 8, Part 1), March 1981. (see: Chamberlain, Gordon A.: Additions, Corrections, and Comment).* "There appeared from 1860 to our day, in practically all the European cultures and in the US, hundreds of narratives that one may loosely group under the label "prehistoric fiction." Their superficial traits seem to be easily recognizable: these tales center around characters belonging to prehistory, and they relate events occurring in periods preceding recorded history, in those eras referred to collectively as the Stone Age, or those identified by the first palaeontologists as the Age of the Reindeer, or that of the Mammoth, or else in the Tertiary Era, since a number of scientists confidently assigned the origin of man to such pristine times..." anon. nd (ca. 1945). La conquête du feu. French. (The conquest of fire). 4 pp. 25 cm, "Collection 13", Editions Paris-Solde.  page 2 textpage 3 textpage 4 textHi Piers, the Official Home Page of Piers Anthony and Xanth.The Compleat Piers Anthony, a fan site dedicated to the works of author Piers Anthony....Piers Anthony, another Piers Anthony page.Dani Zweig's Unnumbered Reviews #8: Piers Anthony (which doesn't include these prehistorics). Anthony, Piers [1934-]. 1991. Tatham Mound. 522 pp. 25 cm, 1st edition, New York. Morrow. ISBN: 0-380-71309-8.* They inhabit the unspoiled swamplands, mountain plains and verdant forests of the vast North American continent -- warriors, shamans, hunters and farmers of sundry tribes and cultures. And one man travels among them -- a speaker of many tongues born "Hotfoot" but renamed "Throat Shot" as a cruel consequence of a hunting raid. From the burial mound of his ancestors, the spirits set him on his life's path -- impelling the young brave through war and hardship, through magical wonder and passionate love, on a mystical quest to deliver his people from the devastation that bears relentlessly down on them from afar... the first European invasions. _____. 1993. Isle of Woman (Geodyssey Vol 1). 448 pp. 24 cm, First Edition, New York. Tor Books. ISBN: 5551963438 (0-312-85564-8).* The story of a man and woman born at the dawn of human history, separated by fate, yet united by an unquenchable passion that even time could not conquer: Blaze, the fireworker who raised his kind out of savagery, and Ember, the beautiful green-eyed woman who forever haunted his dreams.Through their eyes, and those of their descendants, we witness humanity's odyssey from savagery to civilization as they are reborn again and again throughout history. We share with these two eternal lovers an unforgettble odyssey of triumph, tragedy, and discovery that takes them from the African savannah to the ancient Middle East, from the South Pacific to the caves of Northern Europe, from the court of Imperial China to India during the British Raj, ending in a stunning reunion in an America in ruins only a few short years from now. _____. 1994. Shame of Man (Geodyssey; vol. 2). Sequel to Isle of Woman. 380 pp. 24 cm, New York. TOR (A Tom Doherty Associates book). ISBN: 0-312-85811-6 (hardcover).* The story of two lovers born throughout history -- Hugh, a dreamer and musician, and his beloved Ann, a beautiful dancer -- as they struggle to preserve their family and their way of life during some of the most turbulent periods of our svage past -- and our troubled future. Through their eyes we experience humanity's greatest achievements, and witness its greatest shame, the relentless exploitation of nature that now threatens our very survival. _____. 1998. Hope of Earth (Geodyssey; vol 3). 640 pp. New York. Tor Books. ISBN: 0812571118. ...from our ancient beginnings in Africa's Great Rift Valley to the windswept Andes a century from now, and including some of history's most fascinating figures. _____. 1999. Muse of Art (Geodyssey Vol 4). 445 pp. 24 cm, First Edition, New York. Tor Books.* From the mists of prehistory to a terrifyingly plausible near future, Muse of Art explores the special talents that have inspired and motivated us since the earliest days of our existence: curiosity and creativity, seduction and survival, destruction and healing. We view some of the most explosive eras in human history through the eyes of three remarkable women: Avalanche, Melee, and Talena... Armitage, Muriel. 1937. Sarllog The Brenn. A Historical Romance. Preface by Charles Williams. London. Stockwell.A pre-historic novel set in South Wales. Arnon, Jean-Marie. 1997. Coeurs de silex. le premier sitcom préhistorique. French. (Hearts of Flint). bandes dessinnées. 59 pp. "L'écho des savanes", Albin Michel. ISBN: 2226094679. BD pour adultes. Comment aborder la question de l'adultère sans armoire où cacher l'amant, sans mouchoir à laisser tomber à terre, sans billet doux à glisser sous les portes... Les scènes de ménage il y a 35 000 ans, Arnon les imagine à sa façon ! La préhistoire n'est plus l'apanage des curés ou des instituteurs de village depuis longtemps, et de toute évidence, certains auteurs l'appréhendent désormais de façon beaucoup plus légère, avec des Vénus vraiment très impudiques. Voici le premier "sitcom" préhistorique, un peu grivois, à ne pas mettre entre toutes les mains. Eric Lulé, Musée départemental de Préhistoire du Pas-de-CalaisEnglish... Arrou-Vignod, Jean-Philippe. 2000. Naoum, la musique de la préhistoire. French. (Naoum, the music of prehistory). illustrated by Philippe Poirier. illustrations couleur. with audio CD. 33 pp. 25 cm, Musique De Tous Les Temps, Gallimard. ISBN: 2070543862. Asimov, Isaac [1920-1992]. 1958. The Ugly Little Boy. in: Galaxy magazine as "Last Born" Sept, 1958. 60 pp. pbk, Tor Book, Galaxy Publishing Corp. ISBN: 0812559738. (Read, October 5, 1977; Nine Tomorrows, 1959; 1987: Silverberg et al, eds. Neanderthals, pp. 39-90)*  Story of a Neandertal boy taken from his time to the present to be studied by scientists and the media. A TV version was made, and it was expanded to novel length by Silverberg as "Child of Time" (1991) with an added parallel story of the child's family in prehistoric times. _____. (1958) 1978. L'affreux petit garçon. French. translated from the English The Ugly Little Boy. in: L'Avenir commence demain . pbk, Pocket (5034). (L'enfant recréé, Galaxie première série, #60, Novembre 1958; Le petit garçon très laid dans Le robot qui rêvait, Editions J'ai Lu, 1988)     _____. (1958) 1988. Der haessliche kleine Junge. German. translated from the English The Ugly Little Boy by Ursula Schulz-Thoneick. 43 pp. _____. 1958. L'ultimo nato. Italian. translated from the English Last Born. in: Galaxy Anno I-N. 6, nov 1958, p.60. illustrated by [W.] Wood. 128 pp. 18.4 cm. Milano. Editrice Due Mondi. Asimov, Isaac [1920-1992] and Robert Silverberg [1935-] . 1991. Child of Time (The Ugly Little Boy). Based in part on the short story "The Ugly Little Boy" by Asimov. 290 pp. 25 cm, London. Gollancz. ISBN: 0385263430. (1st US edition 1992: Doubleday "The Ugly Little Boy" 290pp; Bantam Books pbk, 1993)*    from the dustjacket by Wayne McLoughlin:First published in Galaxy magazine in 1958, Isaac Asimov's short story "The Ugly Little Boy" is a science fiction classic. Now, in the second collaboration between the late, great Isaac Asimov and award-winning author Robert Silverberg, we have The Ugly Little Boy, the novel, a remarkably moving and chilling tale of what happens when past and present collide.more...There are many Jean Auel sites on the web. Start at The Auel Page... Auel, Jean M. [1936-]. 1980. The Clan of the Cave Bear. (Earth's Children 1). 468 pp. 24 cm, 1st edition, New York. Crown. ISBN: 0553250426 (0517542021).* jacket painting by Hiroko  A natural disaster has left young Ayla alone, wandering, fending for herself in an unfamiliar land. One day, she is discovered by the Clan of the Cave bear, men and women far different from her own people. Tall, blond, blue-eyed Ayla is a mysterious stranger to the Clan and at first they mistrust her and cast her out... more... _____. (1980) 1994. Le clan d'ours des cavernes. French. translated from the English The Clan of the Cave Bear. (Les enfants de la Terre 1). 536 pp. Pocket. ISBN: 2258059321. (1994, Presses de la Cité, 373 pp, Philippe Rouard, tr.)   _____. (1980) 1991. Les enfants de la Terre. French. translated from the English The Clan of the Cave Bear, 1st three volumes. (Les enfants de la Terre 1-3). 1470 pp. Paris. Presses de la Cité. ISBN: 2258034965. _____. (1980). Ayla und der Clan des Bären. German. translated from the English The Clan of the Cave Bear. (Die Kinder der Erde 1). 604 pp. Taschenbuch, Mchn. Heyne. ISBN: 3453023366. Dies ist die Geschichte der Erdenkinder, die vor 30 000 Jahren begannen, die Welt zu begreifenund zu erobern. Es ist die Geschichte des jungen Mädchens Ayla, das mutterseelenallein durch die vorzeitliche Wildnis irrt. Besinnungslos wird sie schließlich von vorbeiziehenden Erdlingenaufgefunden, vom "Clan des Bären", in dem sie dann als Fremde, als Außenseiterin aufwöchst. Eine hinreißende Mödchengestalt, eine phantastische Sage vom überleben in grauer Vorzeit, ein einmaliges Lese-Abenteuer! _____. (1980). Shevet Dov-Hamearot. Hebrew. translated from the English The Clan of the Cave Bear. Israel. Hagay Toledano. _____. (1980). Hulebjørnens klan. Norwegian. translated from the English The Clan of the Cave Bear by Helge Simonsen. Norway. Cro Magnon-jenta Ayla er blitt adoptert av neandertalere etter å ha blitt skilt fra sitt eget folk etter et jordskjelv. Hennes evne til å tenke og handle raskt fører etter hvert til at hun kommer i konflikt med klanens tradisjonsbundne levevis. Hun blir en trussel mot deres eksistens. _____. 1981. Ayla figlia della Terra. Italian. translated from the English The Clan of the Cave Bear by Silvia Stefani. illustrated by Gabriella Gallerani (cover). 496 pp. 22 cm, Omnibus, Milano. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. (1988: La Gaja Scienza 242 88-304-0825-5; 1991: TEADue 73 Editori Associati, Milano 88-7819-233-3; 1997: SuperPocket 33 R.L. Libri, Milano 88-462-0032-2)     _____. 1982. Valley of the Horses. (Earth's Children 2). 502 pp. 24 cm, 1st edition, New York. Crown. ISBN: 0553250531 (051754489X).* jacket painting by Hiroko Cruelly cast out by the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla now travels alone in a land of glacial cold and terrifying beasts. She is searching for the Others, a race as tall, blond, and blue-eyed as she. But Ayla finds only a hidden valley, where a herd of hardy steppe horses roams. Here, she is granted a unique kinship with animals, enabling her to learn the secrets of fire and raw survival -- but still, her need for human companionship and love remains unfulfilled. Then fate brings her a stranger, handsome Jondolar, and Ayla is torn between fear and hope -- and carried to an awakening of desire that would shape the future of mankind. more... _____. (1982) 1991. La Vallée des chevaux. French. translated from the English Valley of the Horses. (Les enfants de la Terre 2). 699 pp. 18 cm, Pocket (3261). ISBN: 2266004115. (1994, Presses de la Cité, 480 pp ill. Catherine Pageard, tr.; G.P. Super-bibliothèque, 381 pp, Sabine Boulongne, tr.)   Passé la surprise et l'émerveillement suscités par Ayla, la jeune étrangère aux cheveux blonds qu'ils ont recueille, les hommes du "Clan de l'Ours" ont pris peur de ses dons extraordinaires. Parce qu'elle sait rire et pleurer, éprouve des sentiments inconnus d'eux, parce qu'elle voudrait garder son enfant pour elle seule enfin, Ayla sera maudite et exilée. "Pars à la recherche de ton peuple, lui a dit Iza la guérisseuse. Va vers Nord, retrouve ton clan et un compagnon." Un long voyage solitaire commence, au bout duquel Ayla rencontre deux jeunes gens insouciants et aventureux. L'un d'eux est Jondalar. Comme elle, il est blond et ses yeux sont bleus. _____. (1982). Das Tal der Pferde. German. translated from the English Valley of the Horses. (Die Kinder der Erde 2). 601 pp. Taschenbuch, Mchn. Heyne. ISBN: 3453022548. Dies ist die Geschichte von Ayla und Jondalar, eine Geschichte vom überleben und von einergroßen Liebe. Es ist die Geschichte der Erdenkinder, die vor 30 000 Jahren die Welt begriffen und begannen, sie zu erobern. Ayla ist eine unvergeßliche Frauengestalt, die - allein im Tal der Pferde lebend - in einer feindlichen Umwelt zu überleben lernt. Als Geföhrten hat sie ein junges Wildpferfohlen und ein Höhlenlöwenjunges, das von seiner Mutter zurückgelassen wurde. Jondalar, der zu den "Anderen" gehsrt, ist ein kundiger Werkzeugmacher, der an der Quelle desgroß;en Mutter Flusses, der Donau, lebt, bis er zu seiner abenteuerlichen Reise aufbricht. Als Ayla und Jondalar einander begegnen, enden ihre Einzelschicksale und ihr gemeinsames Leben beginnt, das Leben der Menschen, die unsere Vorfahren sind. _____. (1982). Emek Hasusim. Hebrew. translated from the English Valley of the Horses. Israel. Hagay Toledano. _____. (1982). Hestenes dal. Norwegian. translated from the English Valley of the Horses by Helge Simonsen. Norway. Ayla leter etter sitt eget folk og finner den unge Jondalar. For Ayla blir dette en oppvåkning til et nytt liv - og til en fremtid som bærer både frykt og håp i seg. _____. 1986. La valle dei cavalli. Italian. translated from the English Valley of the Horses by Paola Campioli. illustrated by Ferenc Pintér (cover). 504 pp. 20.5 cm, La Gaja Scienza 165, Milano. Longanesi & C. ISBN: 88-304-0648-1. (1988: La Gaja Scienza 244 88-304-0827-1; 1990: TEADue 44 Editori Associati, Milano 88-7819-169-8)    _____. 1985. The Mammoth Hunters. (Earth's Children 3). ix, 645 pp. 24 cm, 1st edition, New York. Crown Publishers. ISBN: 0553280945 (0517556278).* jacket painting by Hiroko Now, with her devoted Jondalar, Ayla boldly sets forth into the land of the Mamutoi — the Mammoth Hunters, the Others she has been seeking. Though Ayla must learn their strange customs and language, it is because of her uncanny hunting and healing skills that she is adopted into the Mammoth Hearth. Here Ayla finds her first women friends, and painful memories of the Clan she left behind. Here, too, is Ranec, the dark-skinned, magnetic master carver of ivory tusks to whom Ayla is irresistibly drawn — setting Jondalar on fire with jealousy. more... _____. (1985) 1994. Les Chasseurs de mammouths. French. translated from the English The Mammoth Hunters. (Les enfants de la Terre 3). 914 pp. Pocket. ISBN: 2266122142. (1994, Presses de la Cité, 630 pp, Renée Tesnière, tr.)   Pendant plusieurs saisons, Ayla et son compagnon Jondalar ont tout partagé. Ils ont taillé le silex, entretenu le feu, chassé le renne et le cerf, construit des abris et des bateaux. Ensemble ils ont eu peur et froid, et vécu dans une intimité du corps et de l'esprit qui a fait naître en eux un sentiment troublant et inconnu. Le clan remuant des "Chasseurs de mammouths" qui les accueille est stupéfait par ce couple de géants blonds aux yeux bleus qui savent monter à cheval et apprivoiser le loup. Parmi eux, Ranec le sculpteur est ému par Ayla. Le combat immémorial de l'amour et de la jalousie s'est déclenché. _____. (1985) 1985. Mammutjäger. German. translated from the English The Mammoth Hunters. (Die Kinder der Erde 3). 789 pp. Taschenbuch, Mchn. Heyne. ISBN: 3453025849. Kein anderer Romanzyklus der letzten Jahrzehnte war international ein so überwëltigender Erfolgwie die bewegende Saga der Erdenkinder, die vor 30 000 Jahren begannen, die Welt zu begreifenund zu erobern. Ein grandioses Epos aus mythischer Zeit über Liebe, Abenteuer und den Kampfgegen unerbittliche Naturgewalten - eine atemberaubende Reise in die Vergangenheit, die schonMillionen Leser in aller Welt begeistert hat. _____. (1985). Tsayadey Hamamutot. Hebrew. translated from the English The Mammoth Hunters. Israel. Hagay Toledano. _____. (1985). Mammutjegerne. Norwegian. translated from the English The Mammoth Hunters by Karin Henderson. Norway. Ayla og Jondalar er blitt tatt vel imot i mammutjegernes leir. Ayla føler seg likevel ikke helt trygg blant dem. Hun blir imidlertid fascinert av den mørkhudete Ranec og dras mellom ham og den høye, vakre, men sjalu og usikre Jondalar. Men det er først etter den store mammutjakten hun foretar det avgjørende valget. _____. 1987. Gli eletti di Mut. Italian. translated from the English The Mammoth Hunters by Annita Biasi. illustrated by Sergio Quaranta (cover). 596(4) pp. 23.5 cm, La Gaja Scienza 211, Milano. Longanesi & C. ISBN: 88-304-0765-8. (1992: TEADue 100 Editori Associati, Milano 88-7819-318-6)   _____. 1990. The Plains of Passage. (Earth's Children 4). 760 pp. 23.5 cm, 1st, New York. Crown. ISBN: 0553289411 (0517580497).* jacket painting by Hiroko With her companion, Jondolar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey — away from the welcoming hearth of the Mammoth Hunters, and into the unknown. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the bold pair among strangers. Some will become friends, intrigued by Ayla's ways of taming wild horses and wolves. Others will become fierce enemies, threatened by what they cannot understand... more... _____. (1990) 1992. Ayla und das Tal der großen Mutter. German. translated from the English The Plains of Passage. (Die Kinder der Erde 4). 953 pp. Taschenbuch, Mchn. Heyne. ISBN: 3453056884. Vor 30 000 Jahren, zur Zeit der letzten Eiszeit, unternimmt die wunderschöne Ayla zusammen mit ihrem Geliebten Jondalar eine abenteuerliche Reise vom Schwarzen Meer zum Tal der Großen Mutter, dem Quellgebiet der Donau. Ayla beherrscht alle zum Überleben notwendige Fertigkeiten: Sie ist eine exzellente Jägerin, ist in der Lage, Pferde und Wölfe zu zähmen, kennt die heilenden Kräfte der Kräuter und beherrscht die Sprache der primitiven Höhlenbewohner. Im Kampf gegen ihre Feinde beweist sie große Überlegenheit... Dies ist der vierte Teil eines großangelegten Romanzyklus'. _____. (1990). Arvot Hamaavar. Hebrew. translated from the English The Plains of Passage. Israel. Hagay Toledano. _____. (1990). Steppevandringen. Norwegian. translated from the English The Plains of Passage by Anne-Marie Smith. Norway. Ayla og Jondalar er på vandring tilbake til Jondalars eget folk. Det blir en uforglemmelig reise der de møter mange utfordringer, både fra naturen og fra mennesker som føler deres nærvær som en trussel. _____. (1990) 1991. Le Grand voyage. French. translated from the English The Plains of Passage. (Les enfants de la Terre 4a). 538 pp. Pocket. ISBN: 2266122150. (1996, Presses de la Cité, 655 pp)   Ayla et Jondalar, son compagnon, poursuivant leur traversée des steppes immenses du continent européen. La femme aux cheveux d'or et le géant blond suscitent le trouble et l'effroi sur leur passage. Les peuples rudes qu'ils rencontrent vivent de la chasse et de la cueillette mais n'ont jamais vu d'animaux domestiques. Or, ce couple étrange se déplace à cheval, en compagnie d'un loup apprivoisé. D'où tient-il donc ces pouvoirs? En quète d'un lieu qui deviendrait le foyer de leur union, Ayla et Jondalar affrontent les mille périls qui menaçaient nos ancêtres il y a 35 000 ans, entre Lascaux et Néanderthal, et nous font assister à l'éveil de la pensée humaine. _____. (1990) 1994. Le Retour d'Ayla. French. translated from the English The Plains of Passage. (Les enfants de la Terre 4b). 438 pp. Pocket. ISBN: 2266122169. Jondalar a cru perdre Ayla dans la tempête, au cours de la traversée d'une rivière en furie. Après quelques jours de repos, de chasse et d'amour, le couple se remet en marche dans des contrées de plus en plus dangereuses. Avec l'aide de la Grande Terre Mère, qui régit l'ordre du monde, le jeune tailleur de silex a décidé de retrouver ceux de son clan et de présenter sa compagne au chef Delanar, son père.Mais échappera-t-il au supplice que lui prépare la "Femme Qui Ordonne", la reine lubrique et cruelle entourée de se chasseresses? Aux pièges des glaciers et à la charge des aurochs? Et s'ils survivent tous deux, Ayla reverra-t-elle un jour la terre de son enfance, promesse de paix et de bonheur? more: Buch- und Kunstantiquariat R. von Lützau, Celle Austin, F(rederick) Britten [1885-1941]. 1927. When Mankind was Young. 282 pp. New York. Doubleday, Page & Co. ISBN: 0836935683. (Short Story Index Reprint Series - Ayer Co.) ´A series of stories from cave men to the Vikings _____. 1930. Tomorrow. illustrated by William Kermode. xi, 395 pp. London. Eyre & Spottiswoode.´12 Studies summarising the social progress of mankind from remote beginnings until today.BA B - C D E - F G H I - J K L M - N O P R - S T U V W Y Z Top Indexes Home Baizeau, Henri-Paul. 1990 (?). "Les Robinsons de l'abîme" de Julien Mauvrac. French. (Julien Mauvrac's "Les Robinsons de l'abîme"). in: Bulletin des Amateurs d'Anticipation Ancienne. complete article. Ballinger, Erich. 2000. Der Höhlenmaler. German. (The Cave Painting). 204 pp. Wien. Ueberreuter. ISBN: 3800026252. Die abenteuerliche Geschichte von Dreibein, der bei einem alten Schamanen die Kunst der Höhlenmalerei erlernt. Ein Roman über die Anfänge der Malerei - und vom faszinierenden Leben der Steinzeitmenschen. _____. 2002. La Guerre des cavernes. French. translated from the German Der Höhlenmaler. (The War of the Caves). 250 pp. poche, Milan Jeunesse. ISBN: 2745906747. ... il réussit parfaitement à reconstituer, de façon plausible et passionnante, la vie des hommes sapiens en centrant l'action autour de quelques personnages forts et d'une thématique : la peinture rupestre. Les jeunes lecteurs découvrent ainsi les techniques et les fonctions de cet art majeur de la préhistoire : les images ont une fonction rituelle, elles servent à rétablir l'équilibre du monde lorsque les hommes tuent des bêtes pour se nourrir et se vêtir ; elles protègent aussi la tribu en lui garantissant bonne chasse et subsistance. Mais le récit n'a rien de didactique : la fiction, finement construite et pleine de rebondissements, a sa logique propre et mêle la quête initiatique et l'enquête policière. Bandelier, Adolf Francis Alphonse [1840-1914]. 1890. The Delight Makers: A novel of prehistoric Pueblo Indians. (2nd ed., intro. by Charles F. Lummis, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1918). iv, 490 pp. 20 cm, New York. Dodd, Mead and Company. ISBN: 0156252643. (1971 HBJ edition, new introduction by Stefan Jovanovich)* Unique in nineteenth-century American literature for its blend of historical romance and scientific observation, The Delight Makers provides in fictional form an invaluable reconstruction of prehistoric Indian culture of the Southwest. Written by an archaeologist who had spent eight years among the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico, it tells the story of the ancestors of the modern Pueblos, the Queres, who are dominated by a powerful secret society called the Koshare or "Delight Makers." Rivalry between clans and a conspiracy to accuse a woman of sorcery touch off war with a neighboring tribe, the Tehuas, and lead to the destruction of the Queres settlement. Barbusse, Henri [1874-1935]. 1925. Les enchaînements. French. (Chains). (prehistoric parts). 282, 296 pp. 19 cm, 2 vols., Paris. Ernest Flammarion.´  _____. (1925) 1925. Chains. translated from the French Les enchaînements by Stephen Haden Guest. First UK, London. Cape. (First US: International Publishers, NY, 1929 [1925?], 2 vols.) ´ _____. (1925) 1926. Die Kette. Visionärer Roman. German. translated from the French Les enchaînements by Anna Nussbaum. 2 Bde. in 1 Bd. 505 pp. Berlin. Neuer Dt. Vlg.´ Barjavel, René [1911-1985]. 1968. La nuit des temps. French. Paris. Presses de la Cité. ISBN: 2266023039. (1989: Pocket N° 812, 380pp ISBN: 2266023039; 1995 in: Romans extraordinaires, PDLC, ISBN : 2258041066; 1999: Pocket Jeunesse (Romans Contes) n° 19, 393pp, ISBN: 2266093312)     Dans un grand paysage polaire aux teintes pastel s'agitent des taches de couleurs vives, ce sont les membres d'une mission des Expéditions Polaires françaises qui font un relevé du relief sous glaciaire...more... and see: René Barjavel: Vie et Oeuvre _____. (1970) 1970. The Ice People. translated from the French La nuit des temps by Charles Lam Markmann. 205 pp. 22 cm, London. Hart Davis. (William Morrow, NY 1971; Pyramid pbk, 1973)  The story begins with an astounding discovery, a golden sphere buried deep in the Antarctic ice. Encapsulated in the sphere are the naked bodies of a man and a beautiful young woman, survivors of a civilization that had perished 900,000 years ago.The world is staggered by the discovery and the United Nations, after a stormy debate, agrees to send an international team of scientists to the Antarctic. Eventually, Elea, the young woman, is awakened from her frozen sleep. The scientists learn that she once lived in an advanced, idyllic civilization that was destroyed in a prehistoric atomic holocaust that only students and scientists desperately tried to prevent. _____. 1975. La notte dei tempi. Italian. translated from the French La nuit des temps by Paulette Peroni. (4)viii-260(8) pp. 19.5 cm, Cosmo. Classici della fantascienza [18], Milano. Editrice Nord. ISBN: 88-429-0315-9. Barnett, Franklin. 1977. Crooked Arrow: A Novel of Southwestern Prehistoric Indians of the 13th Century. 152 pp. 21.3 cm, pbk, Beaumaris Books, 1445 West Alameda Drive, #40, Tempe AZ.* The story of Ah-ee, mocked as "Crooked Arrow" by the girl who became his bride; his coming of age, learning the ways of a hunter, his life in the pueblos at war and peace, the ways of hunting, fighting, and family, of prehistoric Pueblo Indians...about the author Barringer, D(aniel) Moreau [1900-]. 1956. And the Waters Prevailed. illustrated by P.A. Hutchison. 188 pp. 21.5 cm, New York. E.P. Dutton. (4th 1965; 5th 1967; 1972)* "The theme of this unusual story is an exciting one... the devolopment of abstract thinking and the power to reason in a child of the Stone Age. There is a sweeping, timeless implication in the story of Andor, an undersized boy whose greatest strength was his mind, in a tribe where brutish physical prowess was considered the measure of a man. The setting is wildly majestic... that strip of land which is believed to have formed a bridge between Europe and Africa... that plain which is now inundated by the Mediterranean Sea. Andor's story is one which will fire the imagination and haunt the dreams of all who read it." more... Barrus, Emery. 1995. Legacy of a Hunter: a novel. 253 pp. 21.5 cm, pbk, P.O. Box 1525, Santa Barbara, CA 93102. Fithian Press. ISBN: 0931832888.* Travel to southwestern France, and you may visit La Grotte de Lascaux. You will marvel at the realistic and sensitive murals depicting the lives of the noble and intelligent people who lived there seventeen thousand years ago. Your mind will travel back in time, seventeen thousand years, and you may meet a man named Orin ....more... Bate, Norman. 1963. When Cave Men Painted. illustrated by Norman Bate. [48] pp. 24 cm, New York. Scribner.* In the cave of Lascaux in the south of France the wall paintings of prehistoric man may still be seen. They are an important key to our understanding of times long ago – when men lived in caves and believed in the power of magic.Here is the story of one particular cave painting. It tells of a fierce wild animal that struck terror into the hearts of the hunters – and how a boy and an old man used paints and brushes and tribal magic to make the hunters bold and fearless once again. It is a tense, dramatic work of fiction for young readers. more... Bato, Joseph [1888-]. 1976. The Sorcerer. Edited by Katherine Fair Donnelly. Introduction by John H. Donnelly. b&w drawings. 171 pp. New York. McKay (Random House). ISBN: 067920363X.* from the dustjacket: Bennet, Robert Ames [1870-1954]. 1901. Thyra. A Romance of the Polar Pit. illustrated by E(rnest) L(eonard) Blumenschein [1874-1960]. 258 pp. New York. Henry Holt. (Microfiche. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. Early science fiction novels; Ayer Company Publishers. LC 77-84199 New York, 190, ISBN: 0405109571 illus. $29.95) ˆNext to the impenetrable jungles of Africa and South America, the Poles provided the most popular location for lost race adventures around the turn of the century. For many years, THYRA, Bennet's first novel, has remained a true classic in the field, scarce and highly sought-after by collectors, both for its action-packed narrative of strange peoples and fantastic adventures and for the striking illustrations which accompany them. A party of explorers seeking the North Pole commandeer a stray balloon that takes them to a warm sub-surface land which has survived unchanged for millions of years.more... Bertherat, Marie. 2000. L'Animal lumineux. French. (The radiant animal). in: L'Animal lumineux (six histoires de préhistoire) Fleurus, Paris, "Z'azimut" n° 11, ill., ISBN: 2-215-05162-0. Berthet, Élie (Bertrand) [1818-1891]. 1876. Romans préhistoriques: le monde inconnu. French. (Prehistoric stories: the unknown world). 432 pp. Paris. Dentu. (& 1885 as Paris avant l'histoire) ´ _____. (1876) 1879. The Pre-Historic World. translated from the French Romans préhistoriques: le monde inconnu by Mary J. Safford. 6 plates. 310 pp. Philadelphia. Porter & Coates. (John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia [no plates]) ´*   PrefaceTHERE is an epoch in the life of humanity which, as its name indicates, could have no history; it is that long period of ages which elapsed between the moment when man first appeared on earth and the time when oral tradition and writing began to establish the acts of his existence.more... and... a book review from 1880. _____. 1883. Un rêve, l'homme préhistorique. French. (A Dream: Prehistoric Man). in: La Nouvelle Revue, XX, 26, 399-414, February 1, 1883. Paris.* _____. 1885 (nd). Paris avant l'histoire. Un rêve. Les Parisiens à l'âge de la pierre. La cité lacustre. La fondation de Paris. French. (Prehistoric Paris. A Dream: Parisians of the Stone Age. The lakeside village...). illustrated by F. Bourdin, C. Bellenger, et al.. ("Paris avant l'histoire" = "Un rêve" + "Le Monde inconnu"). 352 pp. 24.5 cm, Paris. Boivin. (Librairie Furne, Jouvet & Cie) ´*  Berthoud, Samuel-Henri [1804-1891]. ca. 1865. L'Homme depuis cinq mille ans. French. (Man since 5,000 years ago). illustrated by Yan' Dargent [Jean Edouard Dargent (1824-1899)]. Chapter IV: Les premiers habitants de Paris [The first inhabitants of Paris]. 546 [1] pp. Paris. Garnier Frères. (1876. Nouvelle Édition revue et augmentée par l'Auteur, 551 [4] pp) ´* After having traced incidents of paleontological excavations in his Adventures of the Bones of a Giant, Samuel-Henri Berthoud produced, in 1865, in Chapter IV of Man since 5,000 years ago, one of the earliest prehistoric narratives in literature, entitled The First Inhabitants of Paris. —Éric Lysøe Bessette, Gérard. 1977. Les Anthropoïdes. French. (The Anthropoids). 297 pp. 23 cm, Montreal. Les Éditions La Presse, Saint-Léonard: distributeur, Nouvelles messageries int'l.´ Dans les temps préhistoriques, la horde anthropoïde des Kalahoumes vit à la limite de la mer-de-sable. Guito, jeune mâle, subit la phase finale de l'initiation, qui fera de lui le «paroleur» de la horde. Il répète intérieurement sa performance publique, retraçant l'histoire de la horde qui s'éloigne lentement de l'animalité.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. Bierbower, Austin [1844-1913]. 1894. From Monkey to Man, or Society in the Tertiary Age: A Story of the Missing Link showing the First Steps in Industry... 231 pp. Chicago. Dibble Pub. Co. (reprint: Chicago, Ingersoll, Beacon. Co., 1906) ´"suggests the Ice Age as the effective cause of the Missing Link's expulsion from the Garden of Eden, and struggles with snakes as the basis for the symbol of the serpent as Evil." [JC, ESF] Bishop, Michael [1945-]. 1982. No Enemy but Time: A Novel. 397 pp. 22 cm, New York. Timescape (Simon & Schuster). ISBN: 0553281879 (0671835769, 0671449737). (Bantam Spectra, 1989)*   "...won a NEBULA, intensified the movement of [Bishop's] imagination to a local habitat, and for the first time introduced a protagonist of sufficient racial (and mental) complexity to carry a story line immured in the particular and haunted by the exotic. In this case, dogged by dreams of the Pleistocene, the new protagonist -- who is not dissimilar to the Habiline who later featured in the less successful and overextended tale of Atlanta and Haiti, Ancient of Days-- is enlisted into a time-travel project, returns to the Africa of his vision, fathers a child in the dawn of time, and returns with her to the battering world." John Clute, ESF. When I was a youngster, I read London's Before Adam and Crump's "Og" books. I've been enthralled ever since by tales of pre-Homo sapiens. No Enemy But Time is the best fictional re-creation of these I've come across. It makes a glowing reality of the dry bones of this field. -Philip Jose Farmer _____. 1984. Il tempo è il solo nemico. Italian. translated from the English No Enemy But Time by Roberta Rambelli. illustrated by Giorgio Turino (cover). (2)iv-346 pp. 19.5 cm, SF Narrativa d'Anticipazione 43, Milano. Editrice Nord. ISBN: 88-429-0648-4. _____. 1983. Her Habiline Husband. in: Universe #13, 1983. 1983 Nebula nominee. _____. 1987. Marito Habilis. Italian. translated from the English Her Habiline Husband by Stefano Carducci. in: Nova SF a. III (XXI) n. 12 (54), p.185. illustrated by Virgil Finlay. 272 pp. 20.4 cm. Bologna. Perseo Libri. _____. 1985. Ancient of Days. Expansion of the novella "Her Habiline Husband," a 1983 Nebula nominee. 354 pp. 24 cm, New York. Arbor House. ISBN: 0812531973 (087795724X alk. paper).*   The story of a prehistoric man found wandering in a Georgia orchard, whose honesty and deep spirituality bring him into conflict with the modern world. "Adam is a hairy, 4 1/2 foot tall gargoyle with an underslung jaw, curling lip and beady black eyes. The last surviving example of Homo habilis, an African protohuman species believed extinct for 2,000,000 years. Adam is found, naked and trembling, in a pecan grove in Beulah Fork, Georgia. Adam is an artist, a poet, relentlessly literate, and determined to resolve theological conflicts surrounding the metaphysical essence of the immortal soul. But Adam is in love with a human woman. Society isn't ready for that..."Review by Steven H. Silver Blue Wolf. (pseudonym for Robert Scott). 1921 (nd). Dwifa's Curse. A Tale of the Stone Age. 253, [4] pp. London. Robert Scott, Roxburghe House, 7 Paternoster Row, E.C.´* Tharg of the Bison Clan, young and strong, is out hunting. Having killed a stag without a weapon, by breaking its neck, he is resting on the dead animal when he is attacked by Dwifa of the Beaver Clan. Avoiding Dwifa's spear, Tharg chases him, managing to wound him with a stone when Dwifa escapes across a river. Returning for his stag, Tharg finds it stolen, and tracks it to the camp of a tribe of strangers, the Clan of the Wolf...more... Blunck, Hans Friedrich [1888-1961]. 1926. Kampf der Gestirne. German. (Fight of the stars). 273 pp. Jena. Diederichs.´ _____. 1926. Streit mit den Göttern. German. (Dispute with the Gods). 283 pp. Jena. Diederichs.´ _____. 1933. Gewalt über das Feuer. Die Urvätersaga. Romantrilogie (The Ancients trilogy). German. (Fight over fire). 363 pp. Jena. Diederichs.´ _____. 1933. Rechtfertigung vor Freunden. Die Urvätersaga. Romantrilogie (The Ancients trilogy). German. (Justification before friends). 401 pp. Berlin. Buchgemeinschaft. (and: Hamburg, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, 1937, 419p) ´ _____. 1934. Werdendes Volk. German. (Becoming Man). 563 pp. Munich. Langen/Müller.´ Bogoras, Waldemar [1865-1936] (Bogoraz, Vladimir Germanovich). 1927. Zhertvy drakona. Russian. 254 pp. Leningrad. Soykin.´ _____. (1929) 1929. Sons of the Mammoth. translated from the Russian Zhertvy drakona by Stephen Graham. 3 l., 254 pp. 20 cm, New York. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation.´* From the dustjacket: In the days when the world was young, Yarry, a member of the tribe that held itself to be descended from the mammoth, profaned against the tribal mysteries and was driven out to the primeval wilderness, first taking his mate out of the camp of the women.more... _____. 1991. Shiva. Italian. translated from the English Shiva: An Adventure of the Ice Age by Laura Cangemi. illustrated by Massimiliano Longo (cover). 142 [2] pp. 20.4 cm, Gaia Junior 21, Milano. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. ISBN: 88-04-35252-3. _____. 1992. Shiva's Challenge: An Adventure of the Ice Age. 209 pp. 22 cm, 1st edition, New York. Harper Collins. ISBN: 0060208252.*  From the dust-jacket:Shiva felt her hand move again, driven by an irresistible compulsion. Which bowl? All looked alike. Their contents, dark, fluid, thick and viscous in the firelight, looked alike and smelled alike. Which bowl?The Ordeal by Poison. Six bowls are placed before Shiva. Five contain poison, one does not. more...Tharn is a Cro-Magnon — a true man of the dawn age, dating back to the morning of time on this planet. His adventures are decidedly fantastic, leading him through savage jungle to the barbaric kingdom of Ammad, majestic and intriguing in all its forgotten might.more...Read about Joseph Bruchac and his books online at North American Authors Project. Bruchac, Joseph [1942-]. 1993. Dawn Land: a novel. (Abnaki Indians). 317 pp. 22 cm, Golden, CO. Fulcrum Pub. ISBN: 155591134X.* A compelling first novel by nationally known Native American storyteller Joseph Bruchac. An action-packed adventure story spun in authentic native oral tradition, Dawn Land unfolds about ten thousand years ago, in the area now known as New England. A shadow is crossing over the land, and the village's finest son must meet the threat. _____. 1995. Long River: a novel. sequel to Dawn Land. xiv,298 pp. 22 cm, Golden, CO. Fulcrum Pub. ISBN: 1555912133. Sequel to Dawn Land. In the rich and authentic tradition of his Abenaki ancestors, Bruchac continues his story of Young Hunter, the finest warrior in the village of the Only People who lived in the Northeast ten thousand years ago. Living with his wife Willow Girl among many human and animal friends, Young Hunter is reminded that the Only People must maintain a balance with nature in order to survive. _____. 1995. Dog people: native dog stories. illustrated by Murv Jacob. (Reading level: Ages 9-12). 63 pp. 24 cm, Fulcrum Pub. Co. ISBN: 1555912281. Native Dog Stories, the voice of an Abenaki storyteller takes children back 10,000 years to the days when children and dogs had especially close relationships. In these Native American adventure stories, children and dogs together must use their wits to survive the dangers of the natural world. Young readers will meet muskrat, and his dog, Kwaniwibid, who cannot resist folowing bear tracks deep into the woods. They will find out what happens to Cedar Girl and her dog, Azeban, when they try to outwit a stranger. And then follow Sweetgrass Girl and her dog, Moosis, on their journey to find her lost parents. _____. 1999. The Waters Between: A Novel of the Dawn Land. (Abnaki Indians). 310 pp. University Press of New England. ISBN: 0874518814 (158465015X pbk). (pbk 291)  The time is ten thousand years ago and the place is the shores of Lake Champlain, a land inhabited by Abenaki communities who hunt, gather, and follow the cycles of their unspoiled natural world in relative harmony. Joseph Bruchac uses this setting not just to spin a compelling adventure yarn but also to re-create the cultural, social, and spiritual systems of these pre-contact Native Americans. In this third novel of his trilogy about the 'people of the dawnland,' the lake they call Petonbowk -- 'the waters between' Vermont's Green Mountains and New York's Adirondacks -- holds both sustenance and danger, and Young Hunter is called upon to confront a dual menace. A 'deepseer' or shaman, he must use his full powers first to comprehend the threats and then to defeat them. The lake, it seems, holds a huge water-snake monster that makes it impossible to reap the waters' bountiful harvest of fish and game. And, worse, a tortured outcast, Watches Darkness, has turned against his tribe and is using his deepseer's knowledge to perpetrate horrible acts of senseless evil: he destroys whole villages out of sheer malevolence; he literally eats his victims' hearts to absorb their powers; he kills his own grandmother without remorse. Buff, Mary & Conrad. 1966. Kemi An Indian boy before the white man came. 90 pp. [Los Angeles]. Ward Ritchie Press. The story of Kemi, a boy of the Indian Stone Age, is the story of countless boys who once lived in a pleasant land later called California. This book tells of life among the Indians who lived on the California mainland and traded with others who came from the offshore islands hundreds of years before Columbus and before Juan Cabrillo found shelter in a harbor on what is now known as Catalina Island... Burr, Hanford Montrose [1864-1941]. 1912. Around the Fire: Stories of Beginnings. illustrated by old wood-cuts. 238 pp. 17.5 cm, (yellow paper, brown ink), New York: 124 East 28th Street; London: 47 Paternoster Row, E.C. ©1912 the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCA). (1914, 1921, 1925)* 1. The Fire Spirit2. The First Potter3. The First Gang4. The First Chief5. The Smoke Way6. The First Milkman 7. Rang, the Red Man 8. Rang of the Thinking Hand 9. The First Sailor10. The Garden of Ulma11. Let, the First Artist12. Sax, the First Musician13. The Call of the Great Water14. The Story of Lup15. The Wooing of Senna16. Hun, the Hunter of White Men17. The Lake Dwellers18. How Men Found the Great Spirit _____. 1923. Cave Boys. 200 pp. 19.5 cm, New York, 347 Madison Avenue. Association Press (The International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations). (author of Donald McRea, Around the Fire. etc.) ´* Seven stone-age stories, including those of boys with "handicaps" who rose to lead their tribes or save the day...CONTENTSI. Hu, the HealerII. Ack, the SlingerIII. Eck, the HorsemanIV. Rune, the QuestionerV. Og, the WizardVI. Sing, the Story TellerVII. Pinx, Maker of Pictures more... Burroughs, Edgar Rice [1875-1950]. (1913-17) 1925. The Cave Girl. summary. (first as two serialized novellas in All-Story magazine, Jul-Aug-Sept 1913 (The Cave Girl) and All-Story Weekly 1917: Mar 31, Apr 7, Apr 14, Apr 21, (The Cave Man)). 323 pp. 1st edition, Chicago. A.C. McClurg. ISBN: 0940724014.ˆ*   The adventures of Waldo Smith-Jones, a frail, intellectual, Boston blue-blood youth, swept overboard in a storm to find himself on a tropical island peopled by primitive savages, his love for the beautiful cave-girl Nadara, and his development into Thandar, king of the wild men.    _____. (1913-17) 1994. La fille des cavernes. French. translated from the English The Cave Girl. in: La Tribune des Amis d'Edgar Rice Burroughs n° 19 - 22, 1994/1995. ISBN: 0. (Tribune des Amis d'Edgar Rice Burroughs, pbk, 1996; La femme des cavernes in "Le cycle de Pellucidar / 3", Lefrancq, tr. by Olivier Noerdinger, cover ill. by Pierre Joubert, 1997) ˆ   _____. (1914) 1925. The Eternal Lover. summary. (orig. published in Frank A. Munsey's All-Story Weekly, Mar. 7, 1914, and as Sweetheart Primeval, in All-Story Cavalier Weekly, 1915: Jan 23, Jan 30, Feb 6, Feb 13). 316 pp. 1st edition, Chicago. A.C. McClurg. ISBN: 0345378350. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1925, 1926; as The Eternal Savage, Ace, pbk 1963) ´*  While visiting Lord and Lady Greystoke at their African estate, an American girl falls into the most astonishing science-fiction adventure. By a quirk in Time, a white-skinned savage from the Stone Age is thrust forward to modern days long enough to meet her and bring her back to his own world of cave people, saber-tooth tigers, and prehistorical wilderness. This is the story of Nu of the Niocene and Victoria Custer of Nebraska, USA -- two human beings pitted against the world of the primeval past. _____. (1914) 1992. Le naufragé de la préhistoire. French. translated from the English The Eternal Lover by Jean-Pierre Moumon. illustrated by Eric Vignolles. (also: Le Sauvage Éternel, incomplete translation [first 7 chapters] by Michel Baut, Recto-Verso, Bruxelles, "Ides et Autres", pbk, 21 cm, 64 pp., 1988). Antarès. (Retour à la préhistoire, 1993; L'éternel sauvage - 1° partie in "Le cycle de Pellucidar / 2", Lefrancq, tr. by Martine Blond, cover ill. by Pierre Joubert, 1997) ´    × _____. 1918 (1924). The Land that Time Forgot. (The Land that Time Forgot, The People that Time Forgot, Out of Time's Abyss: 3 vols). 422 pp. 1st edition, Chicago. A.C. McCluirg. ISBN: 0803261543.ˆ*    Not prehistoric man. From the submarine-infested oceans of World War I -- to the primeval jungles of Caspak, where men of today are pitted against the mighty monster-lizards and bestial submen of forgotten ages...× _____. (1918) 1938. Caspak, monde oublié. French. translated from the English The Land that Time Forgot. in: Robinson. (Temps Futurs, 1982; Lefrancq, in "Le cycle de Pellucidar / 3", 1997) ˆ Not prehistoric man.× _____. 1919. Tarzan the Terrible. 305 pp. 1st edition, New York. Grosset and Dunlap.ˆ    Not prehistoric man.× _____. (1919) 1939. Tarzan le terrible. French. translated from the English Tarzan the Terrible. in: Hop-là. (1941, Hachette, ill. Jacques Souriau; 1994, Hachette, "Bibliothèque Verte"; as Tarzan dans la préhistoire: Edition spéciale, 1970; Néo, 1988) ˆ    Not prehistoric man.× _____. 1937. Back to the Stone Age. At the Earth's Core (1914), Pellucidar (1915), Tanar of Pellucidar (1930), Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1937), Land of Terror (1944), Savage Pellucidar (1942). 318 pp. 1st edition, E.R. Burroughs, Inc. ISBN: 0345366719. (published in __ magazine, 1935, as "Seven Worlds to Conquer") ˆ*   Not prehistoric man. Five hundred miles beneath the surface of the Earth lies a world of eternal day and endless horizons, in which dinosaurs still roam and cavemen hunt and terrors forgotten in the outer world still survive.more... Bush, Timothy. 1995. Grunt!: The Primitive Cave Boy. illustrated by Timothy Bush. col. ill (Reading level: Ages 4-8). 32 pp. 28.7 cm, 1st edition, New York. Crown Pub. ISBN: 0517799677 (trade) 0517799685 (lib. bdg). Possibly the worst hunter in prehistoric Europe, Grunt is a failure when it comes to providing food for his tribe--but soon he discovers a skill far greater than any weapon. From bears to bison, whatever Grunt draws comes to life. The more he draws, the more the tribe wants. Then one day, the magic disappears. Can the artist save the day with one last drawing? Full color. Butterworth, Ben. 1973. Trog and his axe. illustrated by Lorraine Calaora. [16] pp. (That Boy Trog #1), UK. Methuen Educational Ltd. _____. 1973. Trog makes a trap. illustrated by Lorraine Calaora. [16] pp. (That Boy Trog #3), UK. Methuen Educational Ltd. _____. 1973. Grandpa and the horse. illustrated by Lorraine Calaora. [16] pp. (That Boy Trog #5), UK. Methuen Educational Ltd. (1976, Arnold-Wheaton; 1981 (4th); 1990, Nelson pbk.)  _____. 1976. Grandpa the birdman. illustrated by Lorraine Calaora. [16] pp. (That Boy Trog), UK. Arnold-Wheaton (pbk). _____. 1976 (?). Trog and the fire. illustrated by Lorraine Calaora. [16] pp. (That Boy Trog), UK. _____. 1977. Grandpa's horse race. illustrated by Lorraine Calaora. [16] pp. (That Boy Trog), UK. Arnold-Wheaton (pbk). _____. 1979 (3rd). Grandpa plays hide and seek. illustrated by Lorraine Calaora. [16] pp. (That Boy Trog), UK. _____. 1981 (4th). Trog and the dog. illustrated by Lorraine Calaora. [16] pp. (That Boy Trog), UK. _____. 1981 (4th). Grandpa has a swim. illustrated by Lorraine Calaora. [16] pp. (That Boy Trog), UK. _____. 1983. Trog and the tree house. illustrated by Lorraine Calaora. [16] pp. 22 cm, (That Boy Trog), Leeds, UK. Arnold-Wheaton.A B - C D E - F G H I - J K L M - N O P R - S T U V W Y Z Top Indexes HomeHome - Prehistoric Fiction steve@trussel.com |
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