After Man: A Zoology of the Future
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After Man: A Zoology of the Future is the first book of speculative zoology/evolution written by Dougal Dixon Published in 1981, it exposes though different descriptions and illustrations the inhabitants of the earth 50 million years in the future after the extinction of humanity and much of the Holocene megafauna. Dixon assumes that Europe and Africa would eventually fuse, closing up the Mediterranean Sea. Asia and North America would collide and close up the Bering Strait. South America would

While this isn’t cover news, in the spirit of the sub, I’d like submit the work of Douglas Dixon, who wrote several books, including the bestiary After Man in 1981, about how the animal world would evolve after the end of human civilization. The link above goes to the fandom version of his bestiary.

  • livus@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    Facinating! Thanks, this definitely fits. I haven’t read Douglas Dixon before.

    Some of those animal names make me think he influenced Margaret Attwood’s Oryx and Crake, which has Pigoons.

    • Arotrios@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      Glad you like it! He very may well have influenced Atwood - it was widely considered visionary when released. This book was a huge deal when I was a kid - one of my best memories was finding a copy of it at the [Exploratorium[(https://www.exploratorium.edu/) gift shop in San Francisco. I read that book so much the pages fell out.

      • livus@kbin.social
        2·
        3 years ago

        I can imagine!

        My library doesn’t have it, but I’ll look out for a copy. I like taxonomies; imaginary ones especially.