Prehistoric fiction

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"A hunter attacking a brown bear.", art from The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone , novel by Margaret A. McIntyre.

Prehistoric fiction is a literary genre in which the story is set in the period of time prior to the existence of written record, known as prehistory. [1] [2] As a fictional genre, the realistic description of the subject varies, without necessarily a commitment to develop an objective anthropological account. Because of this, it is possible that the author of prehistoric fiction deals with their subject with much more freedom than the author of a historical fiction, and the genre also has connections with speculative fiction. [3] In many narratives, humans and dinosaurs live together, despite the extinction of the dinosaurs and the evolution of humans being separated by millions of years. The paleontologist Björn Kurtén coined the term "paleofiction" to define his works. [4]

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One of the derivatives of cyberpunk is stonepunk, a subgenre of science fiction. Stonepunk is a neologism born from the contraction between a stone and cyberpunk. This is an uchronia that refers to the massive use of technology in prehistoric times. [5]

List of prehistoric fiction

Print

Novels and series

Short stories and collections

Comics

Film, television, and video

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Scene from When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

Games

Tabletop games

  • GURPS Ice Age (1989) by Kirk Wilson Tate
  • Stone Age (2008)
  • Cavemaster (2012) by Jeff Dee and Talzhemir Mrr
  • Wolf-Packs and Winter Snow (2016)
  • Würm (2017) by Emmanuel Roudier, Olivier Castan, and Éric Gilleron
  • Planegea (2023) by David Somerville

Video games

See also

Further reading

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