Biology in Science Fiction: Free Stories

Title: The People That Time Forgot

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Length: novel

First Publication: Blue Book Magazine, 1918 (published as a novel in 1963)

What the Story is About: The second book of Burroughs’ Caspak trilogy, and a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. It follows the continuing adventures of the men stranded on a South Seas island full of prehistoric fauna. “Burroughs continues the revelation of his lost world’s unique biological system, only hinted at in the previous installment, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system forms a thematic element serving to unite the three otherwise rather loosely linked Caspak stories.” (from Wikipedia)

You can download the audiobook version at Project Gutenberg. or at Librivox.

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