The Day of the Brown Horde

Name: The Day of the Brown Horde
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Author: Richard Tooker
ISBN: 1419127748

Richard Tooker (1929)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy

Age groupAdult 18+

Content ratingR

Pages (Standard (250-400))

Setting

CSM age18+

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Content levels

ViolenceStrong

Sexual contentNone

LanguageMild

Trigger warnings

Racism Violence Genocide Graphic Violence Dehumanization

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Tropes

Non-Western Setting Grimdark

Themes

Scientific Racism Colonialism Othering Prehistoric Society Problematic Historical Context

Synopsis

A 1929 American novel exhibiting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism">scientific racism</a> and cultural obtuseness in its depiction of the savagery and violence in a fictional pre-historic society, described as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniometry#Cranial_capacity,_races_and_19th%E2%80%9320th-century_scientific_ideas">brachycephalic</a> and with heavily-emphasized brown skin. A 1944 re-print in the volume 6, № 2 September issue of the magazine *Famous Fantastic Mysteries* is <a href="https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v06_n02_1944-09.Popular_cape1736_edit/page/n7/mode/2up">available at the Internet Archive</a>.