The Many-Coloured Land

Book One in the Saga of the Exiles

by Julian May

Paperback, 416 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 1982 by Pan.

ISBN:: 978-0-330-26656-7

(16 reviews)

When a one-way time tunnel to Earth's distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years 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....

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2 stars

I give up. Maybe it's just not the book I wanted it to be, so it's my fault, not the book. But I never got into its weird twist on the trip to the Pliocene. I also couldn't keep the characters straight. Oh well.