From a science future to a fantasy past

Extract

Once upon a time the characteristic way to transport the reader into another and different world was by science-fiction, through tales set into a supposed future. Now that genre is being swallowed by another, the fantasy fiction of sagas placed in a pretended past, whose usual descent is by California out of medieval, with Jean Auel’s tales of Palaeolithic Europe as a prehistoric variant. This new area of dominance for the past is worth an archaeological attention.