This post is one of those perfect coincidences, as I work on prepping a serial novel whose timeline ranges from prehistory to modern day.
It is interesting delving so far into the past that we have little idea what life was actually like. I’ll have to check out these recommendations.
Jean M. Auel
Every novel is a work of imagination, but sometimes the imagination can be more striking than usual. That’s certainly the case with fiction set way back in time.
By “way back in time” I don’t mean several centuries. I’m talking about novels written in our modern age that are set millennia ago, perhaps MANY millennia. When a story is that far in the past, there are usually few or no documents for an author to draw on during the research phase of writing — and life was VERY different then. So, more imaginative leaping is needed by the novelist.
I’m currently reading Jean M. Auel’s impressive prehistoric saga The Clan of the Cave Bear, which takes place more than 25,000 years ago — a time when the Neanderthal race was reaching the end of the line and Cro-Magnon people were becoming ascendant. Auel did plenty of…
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Thank you very much for the reblog, Samuel, and the best of luck with your novel!
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