Books like Operation Time Search by Andre Norton
While exploring a top‑secret government installation, photographer Ray Osborne comes across an experimental time‑field. The familiar Ohio landscape vanishes, and Ray is thrust into a prehistoric era where a war rages between the priest of Atlantis and the Sun‑born of Mu. As twentieth‑century scientists frantically attempt to pull him back, Ray is recruited by the Mu people to help secure victory in a conflict that could alter the course of history, potentially trapping him forever in the past.
First publish date: 1967
Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction
Authors: Andre Norton
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