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Saga of Pliocene Exile

Saga of Pliocene Exile Title:
The Many-Colored Land
Le Pays Multicolore

Series:
Saga of Pliocene Exile
La Saga des Exilés

Author: Julian May
Year: 1981

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It all began in France, when an old scientist, Dr. Guderian, in his garage, created a machine to travel back in time.
Well, there's just two little details to know: you can go only in prehistory and that's a one way ticket. No return possible!

Nevertheless, this machine will meet with some success. There are many people just out of step with their time, or who experience some difficulty integrating into society . . . nutters we can call them. And they were quick to line up at the house of the old man to go into exile, forever, to a world they imagine simpler, without laws, without borders, without rigid morals nor mobile phone.

Well, here we say: it's a good idea. The introduction of the characters takes a while but it promises interesting times when this merry band of psychopaths find themselves on the other side, and begin beating the crap out of each other. . . .

But then, too bad, on arrival in the Pliocene, it goes lolly:
they find themselves enslaved by a band of alien telepaths. . . .
Uh, yeah. . . .

Needless to say, I didn't like this one very much.

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