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