Before Adam
by Jack London
In modern America, a young man is terrorized by visions of an older, more primitive life. In the vast abyss of thousands of centuries, his consciousness was intertwined with the consciousness of the Great Tooth, an ancestor of humanity who lived at the dawn. Big Tooth makes its home in Pleistocene Africa, a wild, fascinating young world torn apart by the constant conflict between early humans and proto-humans. "Before Adam" is a wonderful and provocative story that further dragged evolution into the center of public attention in the early twentieth century and has since become a milestone of speculative fiction. The brilliance of the book lies not only in its narrative, but also in the imaginary projection of thinking for the first people. Using his recognizable ability to understand animals, Jack London paints a stunning, dark portrait of how our distant ancestors thought of themselves and their world.
