Man after Man review

[KingZoritaGorington1]

the creatures that dredge up memories from past generations in only 50,000 years is the memory people, boat people, and travellers and their scientific names are Homo Mensproavodorum.

[KingZoritaGorington1]

May I have a word with sir? :) You make quite a great video about the two books After Man and Man After Man. The first time I studied Man After Man it is really wierd but gave me an idea for King Zorita Gorington to create genetically engineered versions of themselves to fill the vacant niches of their colonized planets after terraforming them and you can see him on spore.com at sporepedia.

[pumaconcolor1978]

Hojala queden animales para evolucionar

[JackRussellTerrier2]

With reference to the Dougal Dixon book "MAN -after- MAN," Plenty of detail was given into the daily lives of future humans. And as far as 4:25 was concerned, mating rituals did play a part. For example, read "HUEH CHUUM AND HIS LOVE" on pages 35 & 36.

[n987]

I think that man after man mean to be more science fiction, that actual science.

[nineteenthly]

I've read both and i bought After Man when it was published. There are flaws in After Man as well, for instance the parashrew is ridiculous. However, i agree After Man is far better and it also has the fact that it's written as if by a Victorian explorer or naturalist.

[QUANTUMJOKER]

@nineteenthly

You're right. The Parashrew is pretty ludicrous.

[nineteenthly]

@QUANTUMJOKER There are more subtle things too. For instance, carnivores can't abduct their forelimbs because they have no (or very small?) clavicles, so the Striger is impossible, supposedly.

What do you think of 'The Future Is Wild'? I think it's better than 'Man After Man' but not so good as 'After Man'.

[nuclearzeon]

@QUANTUMJOKER I read After Man on this one website, and probably the thing I found most far-fetched was those flightless auks that LAY THEIR EGGS OUT IN THE OPEN WATER! Uh, Doug, you should know that bird eggs can't survive out in the open water.

Also, the Reedstilt on the cover. It never said what the hell that thing evolved from, just that it's a mammal.

[TimmyGal]

No one is perfect. I love After Man. It was my inspiration for my Metazoica site. I took his ideas and made them my own, and added more to the original cast of characters. I love speculative evolution!

[comixgod50]

Well aren't these human creatures altered by cybernetic humans during the course of their evolution? With all the genetic tampering I could see the stuff he imagines to be plausible. The creatures could evolve in certain extreme ways similar to how we modify plants, and animals. So yeah it's a bit far fetched but I think that these creatures were constantly engineered then this occurrences wouldn't be all that unreal.

[egdeltur666]

To half-heartedly defend Man After Man, when you start off with "humans live into the deep future" you have to understand that it becomes a work of high fantasy. In order to save humans, you need to concoct some fabulous tale to facilitate their survival, mass-planet hopping, the cure for all diseases, heavenly accension, etc. Once you do this, you are constructing a narrative, not making inferences on possible futures based on available data. He CAN'T have taken this seriously, is my point.

[spiderlime]

on youtube at present there are parts from a stop-motion documentary from the 80's hosted by dixon himself, about the world of after man. i found no details of it anywhere on the net, and i believe it should be on dvd. can dixon be contacted and appealed to?

[rokkenroll]

Dougal whent for a much more extravagant direction with this book, i doubt he was trying to be realistic,he was more trying to describe a complete hell. And the humens in the book are the result of gene modification.

[TheMusicLeak]

what the fuck is this shit

[MikaelDryden]

@TheMusicLeak u dont get it, do you?

[TheMusicLeak]

@MikaelDryden

The fuck up.

[JunkyardBreadfruit]

I never read either of these, but I did read Future Evolution, which tries to predict future evolution when mankind is present. Interesting and not interesting at the same time.

[QUANTUMJOKER]

Is that the Peter Ward publication? If so, I've been trying to find it for a long time, as I have a passion for such books.

[egdeltur666]

@QUANTUMJOKER I read the whole thing in one sitting at my school library, since I didn't know if I'd find it again.

It isn't so bad, and his "humans are immortal" complex disappears after a few chapters. And besides, the subject he handles best IS the period where king rats and meat crows start to evolve... WHILE humans are still around. It's pretty cool, actually.

There is also a part where a fictionalized time traveler gets eaten by a huge mob of giant crows. It's pretty much the climax.