YMMV / The Ice People

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• Americans Hate Tingle: This novel is obscure, at best, outside of French-speaking Europe. This could be explained by the following factors: the misogynistic content, though Elea herself got her Action Girl moment by killing a Enisorai military, as well as the racist elements, namely that all the nonwhite members of the expedition are minor characters, the Enisor people are the In-Universe ancestors of both Native Americans and Eastern Asians, black people have extraterrestrial ancestors and aside from Coban himself, none of the Gondawa people, who are implied to be white, is an antagonist. Not helping is Simon's attitude towards Elea, which comes across as lovely from a Cold War-era Frenchman's point-of-view, but these days comes off as being creepy from the average Western person's point-of-view.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In the novel, it's revealed that, because of a war, both the Enisor and Gondawa civilizations met their downfall, this happening 900,000 years BC. However, in 2023, a study published on american academic journal Science reveals that the Homo genus, whose only surviving species is Homo sapiens, was nearly extinct near 900,000 years BC.
• Spiritual Successor: The episode Frozen, from the series Stargate SG-1, can be seen as one of the closest things we have to an adaptation of René Barjavel's The Ice People. In both works, we have a woman who had been stuck in ice in Antarctica, got discovered by a group of scientists and happened to have been part of a prehistoric yet futuristic civilization.

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