Books like No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop
John Monegal, also known as Joshua Kampa, lives between the present and the imagined world of Early Pleistocene Africa. When a government experiment propels him back over a million years, he must build a new life among a protohuman tribe in a harsh, evolving landscape. At the same time, he struggles with his own identity and the inevitable changes of time, ultimately facing a decisive point where he can choose whether the past or the future will define his present.
First publish date: 1982
Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction
Authors: Michael Bishop
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