The Many-Colored Land

✍ Scribed by Julian May

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 487 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

In the year 2034, Theo Quderian, a French physicist, made an amusing but impractical discovery: the means to use a one-way, fixed-focus time warp that opened into a place in the Rhone River valley during the idyllic Pliocene Epoch, six million years ago. But, as time went on, a certain usefulness developed. The misfits and mavericks of the future--many of them brilliant people--began to seek this exit door to a mysterious past. In 2110, a particularly strange and interesting group was preparing to make the journey--a starship captain, a girl athlete, a paleontologist, a woman priest, and others who had reason to flee the technological perfection of twenty-second-century life. Thus begins this dazzling fantasy novel that invites comparisons with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Quin. It opens up a whole world of wonder, not in far-flung galaxies but in our own distant past on Earth--a world that will captivate not only...