The Adversary:- Volume IV In The Saga of Pliocene Exile

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Compoany, 1984. First Printing . Hard Back. Near Fine/Good. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2. Sanderson, Richard - Maps. 470 Paages. Very attractive green bindin witeh gold spine lettering and decoration. July 84 underlines and in red ink on front endpaper. No other marks or stamps to this very tight, bright book with a faultless interior with the feel of a new book. Dust jacket has some chipping and a couple of closed tears 3/8 inches or less. Fourth and last book in the quartet of science-fiction novels that brings to a climax the struggle for the Many- Colored Land-the Earth six million years ago. Completes the series that has become an international best-seller. Human time-travelers from the sophisticated Galactic Milieu of the twenty-second century came to the Pliocene Epoch seeking a Garden of Eden. What they found was slavery under the knightly Tanu race, who had been exiled to Earth from a far galaxy. Freed by the usurper Aiken Drum, the humans enjoy a brief period of dominance. But now KingAiken's rule is threatened by the dwarfish Firvulag, who scheme to destroy both humans and Tanu in the Nightfall War, a ritual Gotterdammerung that had been postponed when Tanu and Firvulag were banished to Pliocene Earth. This menace becomes almost incidental when Aiken discovers that his realm is about to be invaded by another human who possesses metapsychic powers even greater than Aiken's own. He is Marc Remillard, the Adversary, insti- gator of the Metapsychic Rebellion, who nearly conquered the Milieu, and then fled through the time-gate after his defeat. Marc and his surviving followers come against Aiken when it seems that a new time-gate is about to be built-one that will provide a two-way portal between the Many-Colored Land and the future world of the Milieu. This story combines science and fantasy with adventure, humor, and an optimistic view of the human character as it contends against mental and physical perils.