- Fiction, Prehistoric peoples, Fiction, science fiction, general, Afrikaans fiction
Winner of the Nebula Award. John Monegal, a.k.a. Joshua Kampa, is torn between two worlds—the Early Pleistocene Africa of his dreams and the twentieth-century reality of his waking life.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Michael Bishop
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 397
- Publisher
- Spectra, Gollancz, Distributed by Simon and Schuster
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671496159
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