The People That Time Forgot - A Fantasy Novel - The Sequel to The Land That Time Forgot - By Edgar Rice Burroughs The People That Time Forgot is an Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel, the second of his Caspak trilogy. The sequence was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October and November 1918, with The People That Time Forgot forming the second installment. The complete trilogy was later combined for publication in book form under the title of The Land That Time Forgot (properly speaking the title of the first part) by A. C. McClurg in June 1924. Beginning with the Ace Books editions of the 1960s, the three segments have usually been issued as separate short novels. The second of these is treated in this article. The People That Time Forgot is a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot and continues the lost world saga begun in the earlier story. Burroughs continues the revelation of his lost world's unique biological system, only hinted at in the previous installment, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system forms a thematic element serving to unite the three otherwise rather loosely linked Caspak stories.

エドガー・ライス・バロウズが描く本作の真髄は、カズパックという地に流れる「個体進化」という特異な生命体系にあります。低級な存在から高次へと階梯を上る壮大なロマンは圧巻です。文明の理性を脱ぎ捨て、剥き出しの生存本能と進化の神秘に立ち向かう姿は、読者の冒険心を激しく揺さぶる文学的挑戦状と言えるでしょう。 映像版が怪獣の躍動を強調する一方、原作は進化の執念を綴るテキストならではの深遠さに魅力があります。映画が視覚的興奮を、書籍は想像力を通じて生命の理を脳内へ鮮烈に構築させます。この両者を往来することで、忘れ去られた楽園の全貌がより立体的な驚異として完成するのです。