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Jeffrey Bluhm
, March 24, 2021
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The 22nd century finds humanity as one of six space-faring races, with emerging psychic abilities that are leading to a unified galactic mind. For those who don't fit into that universe, there is a one-way time portal to Earth of 6 million years prior, with the promise of return to a simpler life. Book 1 in this series showed that the unexpected presence of two related humanoid alien races makes that very much not the case, and in this second installment we mostly follow the southern members of the group that went through the time portal together and were separated on arrival. This group has greater potential for development of their psychic abilities, which will prove to have transformative effects on the balanced society that existed before the time portal brought humans to the Pliocene epoch. There is a steady build to a cataclysmic and electrifying conclusion, with continued development of both the positive and negative aspects of the nuanced characters. And a hint of additional elements that will further impact this world in book 3.
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