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No Enemy But Time (Gollancz SF collector's edition) (Paperback)

by Michael Bishop (Author) "I TIME-TRAVELED in spirit long before I did so in bodily fact ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (20 April 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 057507096X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575070967
  • Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.5 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 195,338 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Joshua Kampa, the illegitimate son of a mute Spanish whore and a black serviceman, has always dreamed of Africa. But his dreams are of an Africa far in the past and are so vivid and in such hallucinatory detail that he is able to question the understanding of eminent palaeontologists. As a result, Joshua is invited to join a most unusual time travel project and is transported millions of years into the past of his dreams. In early Pleistocene Africa, living among the prehuman species Homo habilis, experiencing the same hardships and the same intense pleasures, Joshua finds, for the first time in his troubled life, not only contentment but real love - a love that transcends almost everything. Intelligent, thoughtful and deeply moving, No Enemy But Time brilliantly evokes the remote past and, at the same time, presents a powerful and convincing portrayal of a relationship surmounting even the most daunting barriers. It is a challenging and highly original novel exploring the nature and origins of humankind.

About the Author

Michael Bishop was born in 1945 and studied English at the University of George. His other acclaimed novels include A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, Transfigurations, Stolen Faces and Ancient of Days.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Unusual SF, 4 Dec 2002
By R. J. Hole (England) - See all my reviews
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This novel won the Nebula Award in 1982. It is about a man who travels back in time to two million years ago before homo sapiens had appeared.

The structure of this novel is very similar to Moorcock's Behold The Man, i.e. there are two narratives intertwined: one which starts with Joshua Kampa time-travelling back two million years to Africa where mankind was supposed to originate; the other chronicles his life leading up to the point where he time-travels.

It is difficult to make the plot sound very interesting and, indeed, the book is a bit of a slow starter. But ultimately it is an enjoyable novel. Bishop's novels tend to be fairly long and he takes his time to move the plot along - but it has been worth it, so far with other novels of his. It is also worth noting that these novels are not typical of the SF genre and, therefore, are not predictable.

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