The Many-Colored Land: A Time-Travel Fantasy Adventure in Pliocene Europe with Warring Alien Races (The Saga of Pliocene Exile Book 1)

In 2034, French physicist Theo Quderian discovers a one-way time warp opening into the Rhone River valley during the Pliocene Epoch, six million years ago. Over time, misfits and mavericks from the future—many of them brilliant—begin using it as an exit from twenty-second-century life. In 2110, a group including a starship captain, athlete, paleontologist, and priest prepares to make the journey. Upon arriving in Pliocene Europe, the travelers discover the world is inhabited by two warring alien races: the Tanu, a handsome and arrogant race with psychokinetic and telepathic powers, and the Firvulag, a dwarfish race with their own supernatural abilities. Captured by the Tanu and transported across the primordial landscape, the humans escape, form an alliance with the forest-dwelling Firvulag, and launch an attack against the Tanu city on a river that would later become the Rhine. This is the first volume in a series about the exile world. The sequel, The Golden Torc, follows.