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Before Adam

Jack London

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"Before Adam is a mixture of sound science and sci-fi speculation. It is based around Darwin's theory of evolution and the idea of racial memory. The main character lives in the current world but has dreams and nightmares that he relives the pre-stone age life of one of his proto-human ancestors.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .mblance of the full meaty calf such as graces your leg and mine. I remember he could not walk on the flat of his foot. This was because it was a prehensile foot, more like a hand than a foot. The great toe, instead of being in line with the other toes, opposed them, like a thumb, and its opposition to the other toes was what enabled him to get a grip with his foot. This was why he could not walk on the flat of his foot.

But his appearance was no more unusual than the manner of his coming, there to my mother and me as we perched above the angry wild pigs. He came through the trees, leaping from limb to limb and from tree to tree; and he came swiftly. I can see him now, in my wake-a-day life, as I write this, swinging along through the trees, a four-handed, hairy creature, howling with rage, pausing now and again to beat his chest with his clenched fist, leaping ten-and-fifteen-f. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I happened on this one during a browse session at my local used book dealer. Since I remember loving
Call of the Wild
, this seemed a no-brainer to try. Furthermore, thanks to the first section of Arthur C. Clarke's
2001
, I was also anxious to see another fictional take on prehistoric humans.

"Erkeğin eşini öldürdüğü tek canlı türü insandır."
Kitabın anlatımı o kadar güzeldi ki sanki ben de oradaydım. Kızılgöz'ü elime bir geçirsem etlerini tırnaklarımla parça parça yolardım sanırım.
Bir sonraki Jack London durağı Martin Eden

Şaşırtıcı bir roman, Jack London'ın basit ama derin, anlattığı kusurlu evrim öncesi ataya karşın kusursuz kurgusu. Bir kez daha büyülendim. Sade dili ama en zoru kolayca anlatan tavrıyla bir klasik. Fantastik? Bilim kurgu? Vizyonuna, bakış açısına, hayal gücünün enginliğine şaşmamak lazım. Tadımlık,

Today, more than a century after Jack London's passing in 1916, most people probably remember the San Francisco-born author for his books of rugged adventure, such as his third novel, "The Call of the Wild" (1903), his fifth, "The Sea-Wolf" (1904), and his seventh, "White Fang" (1906). Fewer will re

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Muhteşem bir kitaptı. Ben yere çakılanlardanım ama :) Sanırım benim atalarım düşüp sağ kurtulandan. Jack London böyle bir kitabı yazarak engin zekasını bir kez daha ortaya koymuş. Okumama vesile olan Bumin Varlı arkadaşıma bir kez daha teşekkürlerimi sunuyorum :)

Unexpectedly awesome. The entire thing is on libravox, which is how I listened to it. This is technically a work of science fiction, I suppose. Its premised on an idea of "genetic memory" which Im pretty sure is wholly discredited. The narrator has a genetically imprinted memory of his ancestors, pa

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