Renowned as a writer of classic adventure stories such as The Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London also had a parallel career as a writer of science fiction and fantasy. In Leonaur's three volume, The Collected Science Fiction & Fantasy of Jack London, his SF and fantasy novels and shorter works are brought together for the first time. In the title novel of Before Adam & Other Stories a modern man experiences through his dreams the harsh and savage life of an ancestor from a time when our species was only beginning to rise above its animal origins. London's powerful writing conjures not only the sights, smells and sounds of that ancient time, but also the feelings of terror, joy and love that set early man apart from the animals. This volume is rounded out with nine vivid shorter works in a variety of modes, but all, ultimately, concerned with how change impacts on ordinary people.
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This book is a true Jack London first edition. It is part of a three volume set, The Collected Science Fiction & Fantasy of Jack London, a feast of great reading and a set essential to anyone interested in the history and development of SF. The other titles are The Iron Heel & Other Stories and The Star Rover and Other Stories. These three volumes bring together, for the first time, this renowned author’s SF novels and shorter works. In addition to the title novel, Before Adam contains the following stories: ‘The Scarlet Plague’, ‘A Relic of the Pliocene’, ‘When the World was Young’, ‘The Red One’, ‘Planchette’, ‘A Thousand Deaths’, ‘Goliah’, ‘A Curious Fragment’ and ‘The Rejuvenation of Major Rathbone’.This handsomely designed paperback forms part of a series of classic science fiction titles published by Leonaur. A cloth bound, hardcover edition with full colour dust jacket is also available. This book will not appear on the publisher's remainders market.
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London rarely fails to please. Before Adam is no exception, and this collection includes short stories suitable for use in an anthropology course (as I did with the short story "Relic of the Pliocene"). Before Adam is a surprisingly prescient reconstruction of a prehistoric world inhabited by more than one hominin species (in this case, what could be an early arboreal genus, a cave-dwelling "Folk" remotely resembling neandertal, and fully modern humans armed with anachronistic weapons). Well comparable to William Golding's novel The Inheritors, but not as anthropologically accurate. Still, a good imagining for the early twentieth century.
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