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| Original Title: | The Golden Torc |
| ISBN: | 0345324196 (ISBN13: 9780345324191) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Saga of the Pliocene Exile #2 |
Julian May
Paperback | Pages: 416 pages Rating: 4.12 | 6414 Users | 129 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Golden Torc (Saga of the Pliocene Exile #2) |
| Author | : | Julian May |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 416 pages |
| Published | : | February 12th 1985 by Del Rey Books (first published January 1st 1982) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fantasy. Fiction. Time Travel. Science Fiction Fantasy. Speculative Fiction. Aliens |
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By A.D. 2110 nearly 100,000 humans had fled the civilized strictures of the Galactic Milieu for the freedom they thought existed at the end of the one-way time tunnel to Earth, six million B.C. But all of them had fallen into the hands of the Tanu, a humanoid race who'd fled their own galaxy to avoid punishment for their barbarous ways. And now the humans had made the Tanu stronger than the Firvulag, their degenerate brethren and ritual antagonists. Soon the Tanu would reign supreme. Or so they thought . . . .Rating Containing Books The Golden Torc (Saga of the Pliocene Exile #2)
Ratings: 4.12 From 6414 Users | 129 ReviewsCrit Containing Books The Golden Torc (Saga of the Pliocene Exile #2)
Exotic aliens with mind numbing and creative psychic powers enslave humans who have time travelled six million years into the past. And this book (2/4) describes the buildup to the great combat that takes place on silver plains between effectively elves and goblins. Shape shifting, fireballs, betrayal, love, prophecy, challenge, score sheets and pesky humans combine with a great inundation that washes many characters clean away. Pulling on Celtic myths, playing fast and loose with geology, andI have mixed feelings about this book. Besides some of the Wow, this was definitely written in the 70s stuff, the large cast meant the story was constantly jumping from plot threads I was deeply interested in to threads/characters I was meh about. Ill probably keep going, since Lisa Schmeiser and Erica Ensign are doing a podcast about the series, and I adore listening to the two of them talk about ANYTHING.
In general I give all series two volumes to entice me to read furtherin this case, May has failed utterly. Somehow she has taken a good concept and serviceable storytelling and written a book almost entirely devoid of interest. The few sympathetic characters she presents have so minor a role that finding out what happens to them has next to no appeal. I've watched all people and events become slowly more sterile and cold, and in the end I had to push myself to read the last hundred pages. I'm
The Golden Torc is the second book in The Saga of Pliocene Exile series. You might assume that means it picks up where the last book lets off.It doesnt.It actually picks up, chronologically, about half-way through The Many Colored Land. Remember Aiken and Raimo and Elizabeth and Stein and Sukey? Now we get to learn what they were up to while Madame Guderian coached Felice et al through their cockamamie scheme. We follow this crew up until the timeline catches up to the end of book one, at which
Rereading this since years and it has become clear that part 1 and 2 of the Saga of the Pliocene Exile belong to the same story and could have been published in 1 part. So if you are interested in this, just read 1 and 2 after each other. Part 1 (the many colored land) describes the Exiles and the technicalities of the journey to the past, while part 2 gives more background on the aliens, their habits and the symbiosys between Men and Tanu/Firvulag. There is no need to give an synopsis with a
These are the first books I have read by this author and I absolutely loved it. In the future, a time portal is discovered that can transport people back to the Pliocene era. A lot of people choose this exile rather than continue living as they have, but a surprise awaits them. A race of aliens crash landed on Earth and dominate the era, using humans in their fight between their two factions, the Tanu and the Firvalug. Torcs control the populace and enhance physic power, creating a world of
Three races fight for dominance in Pliocene Europe. Premise : Several million years ago, two factions of a dimorphic alien race took shelter on the most compatible planet: earth. Fast-forward to the 22nd century, where not all humans are happy with the speed of progress and intergalactic relations with various exotic races. Several misfit humans portal back to Pliocene Europe to escape their own time. Ironically, these time-traveling refugees of the future must now battle aliens for their very
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