tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681264563924389212.post2303693101160041895..comments2024-03-04T03:00:51.206-05:00Comments on Prehistoric Pulp: Our prehistoric futureDoubleWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16571779951193974140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681264563924389212.post-8293922922821684312016-05-25T10:25:46.909-04:002016-05-25T10:25:46.909-04:00I'd like to point out that rewilding does not ...I'd like to point out that rewilding does not by definition involve the resurrection of extinct species. That would be de-extinction; rewilding is an emerging discipline of restoration ecology that involves reinstating natural processes on a larger scale. This means going from less wild to more wild with living species. No mammoths or saber-toothed cats, although if those do come back from the dead they might be considered for pleistocene parks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681264563924389212.post-47814986620931127962016-05-22T10:40:00.002-04:002016-05-22T10:40:00.002-04:00Thanks for all the info. I certainly did not know ...Thanks for all the info. I certainly did not know about those earlier examples and plan to update the article.<br /><br />-WaltDoubleWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16571779951193974140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681264563924389212.post-63838594995700503022016-05-21T14:13:06.357-04:002016-05-21T14:13:06.357-04:00Hi Walt,
Long time reader of your blog, first tim...Hi Walt,<br /><br />Long time reader of your blog, first time commentator (I think). Anyway, happy to have you back and I look forward to another summer full of book reviews and essays like this one. I'm also a fan of "post-apocalyptic dinosaur" sub-genre - Xenozoic Tales is, as you say, amazing - but I thought I'd mention a few titles that you didn't.<br /><br />First off, 'Report on the Status Quo' by Terence Robert (pseudonym for real-life cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson) isn't the oldest example of this sub-genre. That distinction, I believe, goes to American satirist Ambrose Bierce for his 1909 short-story 'For the Ahkoond' which is set in the year 4591 and is presented as a series of reports being issued by an explorer to the futuristic ruler - the Ahkoond - of a post-apocalyptic America which has fallen due to a meteorological cataclysm that sounds surprisingly similar to the one seen in the film 'The Day After Tomorrow.' Anyway, this new post-cataclysm America is now overrun by various dinosaurs who have returned as a result of the changing environment.<br /><br />There is also Frank Belknap Long’s short story “Exiles from the Stratosphere,” which I admittedly haven't gotten around to reading yet, though Allen A. Debus (for who I tracked a copy of the story down) assures me it fits into this sub-genre.<br /><br />Lastly there are a couple of films which have dealt with this idea, most notably Roger Corman’s schlocky 'Teenage Caveman' (1958), the Italian B-movie 'Yor, the Hunter From The Future' (1983) and Brett Piper’s 'A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell' (1990); which is nowhere near as risque as it sounds. There is also the 1976 Japanese TV series 'Dinosaur Catcher Born Free' (26 episodes) which is set in the not too distant future after a comet passes the Earth causing huge natural disasters which level major cities and ultimately reawakens the dinosaurs (done via stop-motion). To react to this, the United Nations form Born Free, an organization who rides around in an all-terrain research vehicle of the same name, captures the dinosaurs and relocates them to an island. Justin Mullisnoreply@blogger.com