Antediluvian, by Wil McCarthy Synopsis: A series of four novelettes in stone-age settings exploring technological advancement. Book Review: This is a hard novel to summarize. It would be called "historical fiction" perhaps, except that it happens in literal pre-historic times, so that technically doesn't apply. :) Also, historical fiction usually focuses a fair bit on the actual historical events/people/places that we know from that era, which isn't a primary focus of Antediluvian. What Antediluvian does focus on is a sense of wonder, surviving cosmic forces, and technological advancement. It does this from the perspective of very ancient humans, though. So I think rather than pre-historical fiction, it would be most accurate to call this Cave Man Science Fiction. It takes the conventions and interests of classic SF, and puts them in a primitive human perspective. In this regard, it feels very much like
SF/F Review - Antediluvian
SF/F Review - Antediluvian
SF/F Review - Antediluvian
Antediluvian, by Wil McCarthy Synopsis: A series of four novelettes in stone-age settings exploring technological advancement. Book Review: This is a hard novel to summarize. It would be called "historical fiction" perhaps, except that it happens in literal pre-historic times, so that technically doesn't apply. :) Also, historical fiction usually focuses a fair bit on the actual historical events/people/places that we know from that era, which isn't a primary focus of Antediluvian. What Antediluvian does focus on is a sense of wonder, surviving cosmic forces, and technological advancement. It does this from the perspective of very ancient humans, though. So I think rather than pre-historical fiction, it would be most accurate to call this Cave Man Science Fiction. It takes the conventions and interests of classic SF, and puts them in a primitive human perspective. In this regard, it feels very much like