The Fire War ( Novel of fierce ages)

La Guerre du feu is a novel written by J.-H. Rosny aine, pioneer of French-speaking science fiction, and published for the first time in France in 1909. the life of the tribe of Oulhamrs has been organized around fire. But if they know how to keep the embers and stoke the flames, they are however unable to light the fire, which they keep preciously in three cages guarded day and night by four women and two warriors.