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The Land That Time Forgot (Bison Frontiers of Imagination) Paperback – March 1, 1999

by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author), Mike Resnick (Author)
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One of the most popular and influential science fiction tales of all time, The Land That Time Forgot was first published in book form in 1924. Set on the lost island of Caspak in the South Pacific, this novel is a dazzling blend of imagination, daring adventure, and intriguing scientific speculation.

 

Hidden behind towering, impassable cliffs, Caspak will not easily give up its secrets. Unique and terrible animals and peoples inhabit the island. Dinosaurs terrorize tropical jungles to the south, while menacing winged humanoids dwell in cities on a large island in the north. Caught between these threats are scattered groups of human beings. Despite their differences, however, Caspak’s animals and peoples are all connected in a mysterious and marvelous way.

 

This commemorative edition features the entire Caspak trilogy in one volume, as intended by the author. In his introduction, Mike Resnick celebrates Edgar Rice Burroughs and the timeless appeal of this story. Also included are Scott Tracy Griffin’s glossary of terms from the Caspakian language, a rare map of Caspak drawn by Burroughs, and the classic J. Allen St. John illustrations.
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    Caspak Trilogy
  2. Print length
    434 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Bison Books
  5. Publication date
    March 1, 1999
  6. Dimensions
    5.38 x 0.93 x 7.94 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0803261543
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0803261549
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was a prodigiously productive writer of pulp fictions--literary entertainments, that is, published in inexpensive, easily obtained periodicals. His style was simple and instantly accessible, his stories riveting if often implausible tales of adventure, and of good overcoming evil. Burroughs wasn't much of an artist. But, as Mike Resnick writes in his introduction to this commemorative edition of Burroughs's immensely popular trilogy The Land That Time Forgot, first published in 1924, almost every book Burroughs wrote remains in print, and countless readers turn to his Mars and Tarzan novels every day.

In Land, Burroughs concocts a fabulous microworld, located somewhere in the South Pacific, called Caspak. On this mountainous island live winged, humanlike creatures, dinosaurs, ferocious beasts of prey, Neanderthals, "wild ape-men," and monstrous reptiles; they terrorize each other, to say nothing of the mixed crew of World War I-era adventurers who inadvertently land on a Caspakian beach and fight their way across the island, dining on Plesiosaurus steaks and having a grand old time in the company of a jungle princess. The story streaks onward like a bullet toward its surprise ending, and it's pure fun all the way. --Gregory McNamee

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"Students of early science fiction will welcome the University of Nebraska Press's series Bison Frontiers of Imagination."—Times Literary Supplement

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bison Books; Commemorative edition (March 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 434 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0803261543
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0803261549
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.38 x 0.93 x 7.94 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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    I wrote my first novel at age 3, taking a ream of paper and a pen and mimicking the squiggly writing that I had observed grown-ups using. Okay, it was twenty pages of scribbles, but to me it was the Great American Novel, and my grandmother seemed to be pleased with it. Today I still enjoy writing novels, short stories, novellas, screenplays, stage plays, and lyric plays. Perhaps the mark of the writer is not what he writes, but that he writes. I always enjoyed comedy, so my first few efforts were of a comedic nature, and I will always instill some humor even into my more serious, mainstream works.

    I have been trying to crack the secret to writing classics; I try to read mostly authors whose works have remained in print for eighty years or more. Still, I have time for more contemporary works, like those of Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, and Douglas Adams, to name but a few. I think I may have struck upon the crucial sequence, plots, characters, writing style and everything to keep me published for a hundred years or more. Now I just need to sell some books.

    I have recently resettled in San Antonio, Texas, to try to remember the Alamo. No matter how deeply I concentrate, it still feels a little before my time.

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Claude Avary
5.0 out of 5 stars Now in one volume, the greatest "Lost World" tale of all!
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2000
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I first read "The Land That Time Forgot" five years ago, when it was still published in three separate short volumes: "The Land That Time Forgot", "The People That Time Forgot", and "Out of Time's Abyss" (all originally published in Blue Book in 1918). I enjoyed the story immensely, but I mistakenly treated it as a trilogy, or a series of novels like Burroughs's own Barsoom series, and read them separately, interspersed with other books. With the publication of this single volume "Commemorative Edition", I finally realized that Burroughs meant for the work to be published as one novel (which it was until the 1960s), and sat down to read it as such.
What a difference this makes. I now believe that "The Land That Time Forgot" is Burroughs's best work, and the definitive "lost world" tale. The three sections are semi-independent, but work as a whole in unexpected ways. In Part I, we are introduced to the Island of Caprona and the bizarre prehistoric land of Caspak hidden inside it, but only after a long submarine journey. Before the hero can solve the mystery of the strange evolutionary system of Caspak, we cut to Part II, which immediately launches us into an adventure on the other side of the Island with a new narrator. Many plot strands come to an end at the conclusion of this second section, but there are still some questions left, still some mysteries, and Part III brings it all to a great conclusion, when we finally see behind the curtains and learn the enigma of Caspak.
Burroughs's writing is simple, tough, and exciting, and Caspak provides endless excitement from all corners of pre-history and fantasy: dinosaurs, sea monsters, cavemen, giant mammals, and winged humanoids! And there are airplanes and German subs as well. But what really sets this novel apart from other, similar stories, is the evolutionary concept that rules Caspak. I will say no more...the riddle of Caspak is the best of many reasons to read this wonderful novel, presented complete for the first time in nearly half a century.
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Johnny Heering
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoy your journey.
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2006
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This book is comprised of three interrelated 140 page novellas. All three novellas are about the island of Caspak, where dinosaurs, cavemen and other prehistoric beings still exist. Part I stars Bowen Tyler, and tells how he and a group of other people ended up in Caspek. Part II stars Tom Billings, who goes to Caspek to rescue Bowen Tyler after he reads Tyler's manuscript, which was printed as Part I. Part III tells what happened to John Bradley, who went missing in Part I. The three novellas work very well together as one novel. The mysteries of Caspek are introduced in the first part and are finally solved in the last part. Along the way, the three heroes have exciting adventures and find their true loves (it wouldn't be a Burroughs story if the hero didn't meet the girl of his dreams). This is a very enjoyable read, especially if you like old time pulp fiction.
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Michael Layne
5.0 out of 5 stars U-571 Meets The Lost World
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2016
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This is the classic "Dinosaur Island" tale. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Lost World" is about contemporary with this one, written in the WWI period. It precedes the spate of 50s Dinosaur Island movies (such as the 1957 "The Land Unknown"), and of course, "Jurassic Park" by a number of decades. But, instead of the pulp-hero Professor Challenger and his associates, the dinos and cavemen are confronted by survivors of a torpedoed Allied ship, and of the German U-boat that sank them... and later by a rescue expedition organized to find and bring back those survivors. By today's more finicky standards, this would be a "pulp era adventure", with all the conventions that implies, but it is nonetheless high adventure -- Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, John Carter, and Pellucidar, could really write action scenes! Yes, he does more than a little German-bashing, but remember when these stories were written. (He tried to make up for it, years later, with the likeable German crew of the Zeppelin O-220 in "Tarzan at the Earth's Core"...) This edition not only includes "Land That Time Forgot", but both its sequels -- "The People That Time Forgot" and the somewhat better "Out of Time's Abyss"! (I was a bit surprised to learn in the foreword, that these three tales, though they appeared separately in a magazine, were apparently intended as the three parts of a novel -- a bit like a story arc from B5...) The journey starts off as a submarine story (which, while it doesn't include the later obligatory scene for submarine stories, where the sub dives deeper than it was designed to go, includes lots of intrigue, action, and a couple of takeovers (technically not mutinies) that keep things rolling), but soon develops into a classic "Lost World" tale on an uncharted island full of dinosaurs and cavemen (and Burroughs comes up with an appropriately weird reason why they can coexist), with Our Heroes endangered not only by the natives and local wildlife, but by the egos of the two faction leaders, who should (IMHO) better have set aside their quarrels and worked together here. The second part of the tale covers the adventures of the leader of a rescue team assembled to retrieve the survivors, after their plight is revealed by (literally) a message in a bottle. Marooned in the dino-infested lands of the island, by the crash of his recon plane, the leader of the rescuers must now face the additional matter of rescuing himself. Needless to say, various creatures and natives have other ideas. The third and final book ties everything together, as the protagonists of the first two parts, and the remaining survivors and rescuers, link up, and a really weird foe makes itself known. Fans of Tarzan and John Carter won't be disappointed!
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Richard Parmelee
3.0 out of 5 stars The land that Time forgot
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2023
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There were many unexplained events in this book. For one, there were no old people nor young people, so how did they propagate? The book left you hanging as there was no definite conclusion.
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Clayton E. Cramer
5.0 out of 5 stars Adventure! Far Better Than Expected
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2023
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I watched the 1960s movie version and because of other movie versions of Burroughs' novels I assumed it was a very derivative copy of The Lost World. No. It stands on its own very well. Beautifully written with unexpected twists.
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R Goff
4.0 out of 5 stars Sequence for the Land that time forgot
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2012
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I have really enjoyed E R B old novels as I have read about 20 in the last few months. I would suggest that any reader print out a sequential list of the books and keep them in order because I got one out and read the ending second and it does detract from the whole effect.
Otherwise, ERB has written some fantastic Sci-Fi novels along with the John Carter series.
All worth reading today.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Land That Time Forgot
Reviewed in Canada on September 10, 2022
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Classic book, still a very good read.
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John Hopper
3.0 out of 5 stars a bit disappointing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2012
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This is very much in the style of Conan Doyle's Lost World and Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, but is not up to the standard of either of those. The characters are flat and unmemorable and not much actually happens - indeed the main part of the story does not start until 40% of the way through after various skirmishes between English and German sailors in 1916. I think I will track down the sequels, but it isn't great stuff by any means. 3/5
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Bubble-headed Boobie
3.0 out of 5 stars Only one story, not a complete trilogy
Reviewed in Canada on July 23, 2023
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The description implies this book contains all three stories, it does not. It is only The Land Before Time.

Perhaps it was my error as i was looking for a complete trilogy in a single volume , but in reviewing the description again, I’d say it is not clear in anyway and therefore misleading.

The quality of the paperback was fine but it’s only The Land Before Time.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Old fashioned Adventure
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 27, 2016
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I hadn't read Edgar Rice Burroughs before, I was pleasantly surprised, a real old fashioned adventure story.
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