![]() ![]() ![]() This keeps going on and on and on right from the start. ![]() There are probably half a dozen or more scenes, one after the other, all seemingly non-related that introduce us to new characters. First off, the story takes way too long to get going. I think it’s a case of this book was not for me. 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 science-fiction and fantasy fans but also those who enjoy literate thrillers. Thus begins this dazzling fantasy novel that invites comparisons with the work of J.R.R. 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. The misfits and mavericks of the future–many of them brilliant people–began to seek this exit door to a mysterious past. But, as time went on, a certain usefulness developed. 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. ![]()
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