Prehistories!

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History of humankind in the period before recorded history.

Has anyone ever read something based in this time period?

Alien contact? etc would be very interesting.

Looking for suggestions!

Thanks! :)
 
Harry Harrison's East of Eden story is interesting. It is set on Earth where dionasaurs survived and rule the world with humans as their slaves. Sort of like Planet of the Apes but without the chimps and Chuck Heston.
 
The Inheritors by William Golding
Not an SFF novel. Excellent imagining of early humanoids.
 
I suppose there is Jean Auel's Earth's Children series (six books). I haven't read any of them, so can't comment on their quality.


They do have alien encounters of sorts: between "Cro-magnon" humans and Neanderthals.
 
I'm reading Julian May's Pleocene Exile books right now. In general I'm glad to have bought them, but there are parts that slow me down. The basic concept is a one-way portal from the 22nd century to the pleocene of what will be Europe. Unbeknownst to the travellers, alien races have colonized earth at this time. The interesting part is that they form the basis for our collective memory of fairies, elves and such. I'm on the 3rd of the series of 4 books, but the story does continue to chronicle the future as well.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys/gals.

Has anyone seen Prometheus? I'm thinking like that, or of Venus before it became a fireball/Mars before it became a lifeless chunk of rock.

Think there is a lot of scope here, as just because it wasn't written down doesn't mean it didn't happen! :)
 
Stephen Baxters 'Evolution' no alien contact, but follows one family line in a series of short stories from the first evolution of mammals into the far future. Very interesting and a different take on mankinds destiny.
 
Ursa major said:
I suppose there is Jean Auel's Earth's Children series (six books). I haven't read any of them, so can't comment on their quality.


They do have alien encounters of sorts: between "Cro-magnon" humans and Neanderthals.
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I read all 6. There was enough sex in each to call it a romantic series. And she addresses a wider range of social problems than I would have expected to read in a prehistory. Rape, interracial relations, prejudice, life, death... sure. but gay/ bi relations? divorce? adoption? religion? environmentalism?
Her cave people are very modern. Idk, if she hadn't padded it out so obviously I might have enjoyed it more.
It's a good train read.
 
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