Austin Bierbower 3 hr 8 min read

In the deep prehistoric past, the first man-like beings take their earliest steps toward industry, commerce, government, and war, a comic saga of the Missing Link.

Austin Bierbower's 1906 novel, billed as the first prehistoric novel, imagines the dawn of human society with satirical humor and evolutionary speculation. Playful, pioneering period SF. Read it for a droll early caveman epic, following our ape-ancestors as they blunder into civilization.

In its time

Published in 1906, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

3 hr 8 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

H. R. Heaton