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Ms Jean M. Auel's best-selling book "The Clan of the Cave Bear" and "Earth's Children" book series is a beautiful depiction of our planet 35,000 years ago. Her six books brought me many hours of enthralled reading, at different times in my life.
Written (and read) over a couple of decades, many "Earth's Children" readers have posed questions on certain sections of Ms Auel's epic. It is delightful to read different writers' fan fiction interpretations, who build on the foundational ancient world brought to life by Ms Auel.
My first Earth's Children fan-fiction piece, "The Clan in the Valley", imagined Durc's life after Ayla was forced to leave Broud's clan. My second fan-fiction work, "The Man of the Others", tried to picture a young Mamut, who met the same clan years before Ayla did.
This story looks at Ayla from the eyes of those closest to her. Ayla's friendship with them was unprecedented, and set the stage for what we take for granted today. It is perhaps particularly apt that this third fan-fiction piece was written in the Year of the Horse, according to the Chinese Zodiac.
In my fan-fictions , some characters are Ms Auel's creation and copyright, some are mine. Passages from various "Earth's Children" books are extracted as vignettes to preface my chapters.
Thank you to Ms Auel, for giving us Ayla - who continues to inspire girls and boys even in today's very different world of ours. Hopefully we will be able to take care of it for a while more.
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This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.