The Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists: Jurassic Park & Prehistoric Fiction

Stones To Stories: The History of Science Fiction with professor and author Adam Roberts

July 1, 2026·56 min
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Send me a voice message! Dinosaurs are real, which is exactly why they are so hard to write. Humans never lived alongside them, so any prehistoric fiction that wants characters, conflict, and drama has to cheat time, bend geography, or invent new science. I’m joined by Adam Roberts, professor of nineteenth-century literature at Royal Holloway and a leading critic of science fiction, to unpack how writers solve that problem and what those solutions reveal about our fears and fantasies. The Bo...

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