![]() ![]() It could not be suggested that the sequence is very usefully read as sf, or that, indeed, it is intended to be read as sf most of the events recounted – as the young Cro-Magnon protagonist Ayla grows up in the Neanderthal community which has adopted her, and begins to effect transformations in her world – are legitimate palaeo-anthropological extrapolations pastwards about the nature of human Evolution, but do not initially occupy a frame in any real sense fantastic, though Ayla does generate an unusual number of culture-changing Inventions solo. ![]() (1936- ) US author who is known solely for her enormously successful Earth's Children sequence of Prehistoric SF novels: The Clan of the Cave Bear ( 1980), The Valley of Horses ( 1982), both assembled as The Clan of the Cave Bear/The Valley of Horses (omni 1994), plus The Mammoth Hunters ( 1985), all three assembled as Earth's Children (omni 1987), plus The Plains of Passage ( 1990), The Shelters of Stone ( 2002) and The Land of the Painted Caves ( 2011). ![]()
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