Biology in Science Fiction: Free Stories

Title: The Land That Time Forgot

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Length: novel

First Publication: 1918

What the Story is About: The first novel in Burroughs “Caspak” trilogy. In this “lost world” story set during WWI, a U-boat crew is stranded on an island teeming with prehistoric fauna, including dinosaurs and Neanderthals. “Burroughs adds his own twist by postulating a unique biological system for his lost world, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system is only hinted at in The Land That Time Forgot; presented as a mystery whose explication is gradually worked out over the course of the next two novels, it forms a thematic element serving to unite three otherwise rather loosely linked stories.” ( From Wikipedia).

You can also download the audiobook version from Project Gutenburg or at Librivox.

Categories: 1900-1929 • Audio • Burroughs - Edgar Rice • Dinosaurs • Evolution • Novel • Paleontology • Zoology