Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 18th, 2007

Walter Williams* in his Prehistoric Pulp blog’s essay, “Raising the Dead: Bringing back extinct animals in fiction,” has given us a trek through what the blogger calls “paleontological fiction.” Some of us here might view what he overviews as a form of “cryptofiction.” No matter what you call it, his exercise is fun reading.
In its essence, Williams shares a collection of online reviews and thoughts about these books. At its core, however, it’s a fan survey that reads with undercurrents of enjoyment and passion.
Go to the link itself (given above) to fully digest where these are taking you, but, in the meantime, here are a few of my favorite passages:
Readers must expect to suspend their disbelief when delving into any science fiction story about extinct creatures, but the fact remains that the more plausible the scenario for bringing back the animals, the more acceptance a work will receive from the public. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle penned The Lost World at a time when large regions of globe were still unexplored and the prospect of finding living fossils in the distant lands seemed possible, if highly unlikely. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton played on fears of genetic engineering and was based on a premise that a few scientists said could become a reality. Even time travel, which almost certainly is not possible, has been used so much in science fiction that most people will accept it without asking too many questions about how it works.

The essayist has organized the piece around eight plot devices and goes on this safari with us, using those as his sideposts. I won’t keep to that track, as you can use him as your guide there. I want to stop along the way, and examine some of the deeper points that caught my attention.

The Lone Survivor
An individual creature or small group of the same species survives into modern times in this scenario. This is the realm of cryptozoology, the pseudoscience concerning the search for unknown animals and living fossils, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti.
Prehistoric survivors are usually hidden somewhere inaccessible to man, like the brontosaurs deep in the Congo jungle in the movie Baby, Secret of the Lost Legend. The most memorable tale to use this plot device is Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Fog Horn”, in which the horn of a lighthouse summons an ancient and very lonely reptile from the depths of the ocean.
Stephen Baxter’s Silverhair is about a small herd of mammoths that still lives on an isolated arctic island. A wealthy Arabic family has been gathering prehistoric survivors from all over the globe for centuries in Bestiary by Robert Masello, a thriller set in modern-day Los Angeles.
The expansive and largely unexplored oceans provide plenty of territory for prehistoric animals to hide in. Both Meg and its sequels by Steven Alten and Extinct by Charles Wilson are about the survival of the super-shark Megalodon.

Of course, I shall not ignore that “cryptozoology” and “pseudoscience” shouldn’t be used in the same sentence. I understand what he’s trying to say here but it still feels like fingernails sloooowwwwly being pulled across a chalkboard to read that one sentence. Hey, Mr. Williams, it’s not nice to call “cryptozoology,” a “pseudoscience.”

The most famous example of this device is the book that gives it its name, The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In it, British explorers discover a South American plateau populated by dinosaurs and ape men. A lost world is different from the previous scenario in that an entire ecosystem survives hidden and unchanged, although animals from different time periods are usually thrown into the same setting.
This scenario was first used by Jules Verne in 1864 with the publication of Journey to the Center of the Earth, in which the heroes discover a giant cavern populated with extinct creatures. It became a staple of early 20th century pulp writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs in his The Land That Time Forgot trilogy, set on a lost continent, and his Pellucidar series, set inside a hollow earth.

Indeed, it was Doyle’s The Lost World that first involved Bernard Heuvelmans in this entire field. It is a book that serves as an apex of the genre.
You’ve seen Jurassic Park, right?
Then you know that in this case scientists find ancient DNA and resurrect dinosaurs using genetic engineering. It should be pointed out that Michael Crichton wasn’t the first use this device. Harry Adam Knight — a pen name for B-movie historian John Brosnan — unleashed genetically engineered dinosaurs on an unsuspecting British public in his 1984 novel Carnosaur, which hit bookstores six years before Jurassic Park. Piers Anthony resurrects a Baluchitherium, the largest land-dwelling mammal ever to have lived, in Balook.
Credit goes where credit is due in this essay. I like that.
A Different Flesh by Harry Turtledove depicts a world where Homo erectus rather than modern humans populated the Americas, allowing Ice Age mammals such as saber-tooth cats to survive into historic times. A group of teens finds a cave leading to a world where humans never evolved and Ice Age animals still roam in Steven Gould’s Wildside.
Wiiliams’s blog, Prehistoric Pulp, and this essay especially, are worth your time, if you enjoy these kinds of cryptofiction reviews.
[*Walter Williams, not to be confused with 1. the science fiction author, 2. the conservative talk show host, 3. the basketball player, or 4. the creator of saturday night live's Mr. Bill.]
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How about a book on bringing back homo habilis, homo erectus, etc. Bringing back animals a la Jurassic Park is old hat….how about a book/film where the premise is to bring back part of the family tree! Think of all the implications and the story lines that could be generated!
You know, I’ve read a good chunk of the books he mentions…
I don’t know if the term “pseudo-science” was popular when Charles Fort was writing, but it’s the kind of thing he “made a virtue of,” instead of an insult. Considering his opinion of the “scientific establishment” (which was partly wrong but partly right), he would have probably really ENJOYED being accused of “pesudo-science.” And (even though it’s too simple a way of looking at it), that’s what I think of the term.
But some of the family tree HAVE been brought back, Cryptonut: Isaac Asimov wrote a very poignant story called The Ugly Little Boy about a Neandertal child who is brought forward in time to the present. The story is a classic and it’s a very good read. It was later expanded to a novel co-written by Robert Silverberg. The novel is good too.
I was going to mention “The Ugly Little Boy” - a forgotten gem.
Some parts of the human family tree have been done, in Petru Popescu’s superb Almost Adam and John Darnton’s rather silly Neanderthal. There are great possibilities in the Flores people, which may in fact have lived into historical times - modern survivors would not be too great a stretch. Another interesting possibility is for someone to take the idea the Minnesota Iceman was some form of surviving prehuman, perhaps from Asia, and construct a tale around it.
Charles Wilson’s Extinct might be the silliest novel in the history of cryptofiction, with its 200-foot Megalodon. The beast would probably spend its whole life in a frantic chase for enough food to feed its several hundred tons.
This is a very entertaining genre, and, at its best, can be very thought-provoking. The boundaries, as with most genres, are fuzzy. What does one do with John Varney’s entertaining Mammoth, which mixes genetic engineering and time travel? Despite the seeming overdose of plot devices, it works anyway because the human stories woven into it are well done.
There are plenty of interesting stories left to write in this genre. I look forward to the next entry.
I just got done with Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston. It almost but not quite qualifies. And it is a good read.
The Silk Code by Paul Levinson is another good example, this time with H. s. n. hanging on in the Pyrenees, the high mountains of central Asia, and also, in our midst. It is a good enough read to re-read every couple years or so.
Anyone remember Clifford Simak’s ‘The Goblin Reservation’, where a Neanderthal is brought forward to the present with a sabre-tooth as a pet?
Petru Popescu’s book “Almost Adam” details a paleoanthropologist discovery of pliocene Australopithecus alive in east Africa. A good summer read.
I read SilverHair… Very good book…
Sad from what I remember, but good… It’s been a couple years since I read it…