A Relic of the Pliocene

by Jack London

Release: 12 January 1901
Format: Short Story
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Adults
Content: Debatable Time Travel
Original Language: English

Neither our narrator Thomas Stevens nor the mighty hunter Nimrod realized that the modern-day mammoth of this story arrived in the frozen north via time travel, but why else would F&SF have reprinted the story some 42 years after London’s passing?

— Michael Main

I pardon your ignorance concerning many matters of this Northland, for you are a young man and have travelled little; but, at the same time, I am inclined to agree with you on one thing. The mammoth no longer exists. How do I know? I killed the last one with my own right arm.

DEBUT

“A Relic of the Pliocene,” in Collier’s, 12 January 1901.

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1 English variant

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