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The People That Time Forgot (original 1918; edition 2012)

by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author)

Series: Caspak (2)

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Though Edgar Rice Burroughs is best remembered for creating jungle hero Tarzan, he was also a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy tales. The People that Time Forgot is a novel that details the adventures and travails of a group of explorers trapped on an island that is populated by all manner of prehistoric creatures. A must-read for fans of Jurassic Park.

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Title:The People That Time Forgot
Authors:Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author)
Info:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2012), 120 pages
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You must hid all your science education in the closet before reading this one, most of the "prehistoric" details in this one were flat wrong even when this was written. In particular the idea of people hatching from eggs on one end of the island and then slowly migrating north as they "evolve" into higher forms of humanity is absurd. The adventure is classic Burroughs, a perfect hero, lots of he-man posturing and overcoming predators. The action is fun but cannot make up for so many obvious plot and setting holes.

re-read 10/256/2023 ( )
  catseyegreen | Oct 27, 2023 |
MUCH better than the first installment in the series. Tighter plot and more focus on the adventures, less on the explanations. I liked it. ( )
  AliceAnna | Jan 7, 2023 |
I was a bit disappointed with this sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. I was expecting it to follow the adventures of Bowen Tyler and Lys after they accept their fate as being finally stranded in Caspak beyond hope of rescue. Instead it follows the adventures of Tom Billings, the man who finds the message in a bottle that Tyler threw into the sea at the end of the previous novel. He and his companions attempt to land on Caspak and Tom adventures across the land accompanied by a woman he meets, Ajor. This novel relies less on action and more of how Tom discovers more about the complicated societies on the island, where individual members of tribes progress through levels from apelike creatures to increasingly higher forms of humanity. This makes the novel somewhat more intellectually interesting but less readable as an adventure story. ( )
  john257hopper | Jul 31, 2022 |
3.5 stars
This was a fun adventure story, but unlike the first far less believable with how the people "evolve". ( )
  ChelseaVK | Dec 10, 2021 |
Read as part of the trilogy https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1240044128 . ( )
  wreade1872 | Nov 28, 2021 |
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I am forced to admit that even though I had traveled a long distance to place Bowen Tyler's manuscript in the hands of his father, I was still skeptical as to its sincerity...
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Classic Literature. Fiction. Science Fiction & Fantasy. HTML:

Though Edgar Rice Burroughs is best remembered for creating jungle hero Tarzan, he was also a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy tales. The People that Time Forgot is a novel that details the adventures and travails of a group of explorers trapped on an island that is populated by all manner of prehistoric creatures. A must-read for fans of Jurassic Park.

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In the unmapped Antarctic seas lay Caspak, the continent whose towering, rockbound coastline had kept it in eons-long isolation. But now adventurer Bowen Tyler was lost in this mysterious land where time had stopped andthe monstrous creatures of long-dead epochs battled each other for supremacy.

tom Billings had traced his missing friend as far as Caspak, but no sooner had he arrived there than a wild duel with a giant pterodactyl stranded him, unarmed, in a landscape of a thousand dangers.
Spurred on by determination to rescue Tyler - and by newfound love for the beautiful Ajor, daughter of Earth's Dawn Age - he matched his courage against mammoth dinosaurs an d fearsome cave cavemen.
But could he match wits against the awesome mystery that ruled the forgotten land?
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    UNFRIENDLY SKIES

I saw a most terrific creature sweeping down on me. Fully eighty feet long from the end of its hideous beak to the top of its thick, short tail, it was coming straight for me and hissing frightfully - I could hear it above the whir of the propeller. the creature dived for my right wing so quickly that nothing but a sheer drop could have saved me. I was making the maneuver successfully when I saw I was approaching a large tree. My effort to dodge the tree and the pterodactyl at the same time ended disastrously. The plane dashed into the branches, where it came to rest forty feet above the ground ...
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