Then others start coming – and are willing to pay any amount: they can’t take their money with them. Reluctantly, but feeling sorry for him and agreeing that is it better than suicide, she agrees. His discovery is largely ignored – it only flows in one direction, so what possible use is it? – but after he dies someone comes to his widow and begs her to let him use it to travel back through time. The story opens in a remote corner of France where a disregarded researcher has established a time-portal into the early Pliocene Epoch, nearly six million years ago. Certainly they are all three among the very best of their kind. I suppose it might be fair to say of this series that the genre is mixed unlike the other two, that it is both SF, which LOTR is not, and is set in a fantasy past, which the Foundation series is not. On the front cover of my paperback edition from 1981, it says “will eventually rival THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY” – which sounds good although actually they are three very different things. I have started re-reading, after many years, what I now believe is my all-time favourite SF series, and have just finished the first volume, The Many-Coloured Land.
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