The ManyColored Land, Julian May
The ManyColored Land, Julian May
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The ManyColored Land
Volume 1 of the Saga of Pliocene Exile

Author: Julian May

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 14 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/20/2010

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

This is a spellbinding tale woven of equal parts epic and mythwith a liberal dash of hard science fiction. When a oneway time tunnel to Earths distant past, specifically six million b.c., was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for lightyears around hurried to pass through it. Each sought his own brand of happiness. But none could have guessed what awaited them. Not even in a million years. In the early twentysecond century, many humans are being born with psychic powers and are linked in a single galactic mind. Those without these psychic powersthe misfits, undesirables, criminals, and radicalshave a choice: mental reprogramming or exile. Exile, voluntary or otherwise, takes them back six million years, to a time between the extinction of dinosaurs and the rise of Homo sapiens, and to a time of exotic surprises and unknown dangers.

About Julian May

Julian May lives in Washington state and has been writing science fiction and fantasy for more than thirty years.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on March 27, 2025

According to the publisher Angry Robot, Julian May has died, age 86. The sad news has motivated to review this book, which I haven't read in 30 years. I think it was Julian May who gave me the taste for mixing fantasy and science fiction. This, excellent, series is set mainly in the Pliocene era of E......more

Goodreads review by Clouds on November 08, 2013

Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done. On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. T......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 09, 2017

This was a surprisingly good read, but I suppose I shouldn't have been that surprised. It won the Locus and was nominated for both the '82 Hugo and '81 Nebula, after all. I had this odd assumption that it was all fantasy from the bookcovers I'd known and from the comments I'd heard, and that's true a......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on March 10, 2020

I first read this book in my teens, and have a memory of loving it, as well as the rest of the series, but as I finished this reread (due to it being a selection of the SFF book club) I have no idea why. There were moments — which grew few and far between — in which the gonzo energy of so many weird......more

Goodreads review by Kat on December 24, 2010

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature. The Many-Colored Land, a classic (1981) science fantasy novel by Julian May, wasn’t too high on my TBR list until I noticed that Blackstone Audio released it last month. I like science fantasy, so I gave it shot, and I sure am glad I did. I loved every moment......more

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