Jack the Bodiless
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His powers may be the ultimate hope, if they allow him to live.
Julian May fue una autora estadounidense cuya obra abarcó la ciencia ficción, la fantasía, el terror y la literatura infantil. Su escritura a menudo profundizaba en preguntas trascendentales sobre la naturaleza humana y nuestro lugar en el cosmos. May entrelazó magistralmente conceptos científicos en narrativas cautivadoras, atrayendo a una amplia gama de lectores. Su prosa se caracteriza por su alcance imaginativo y su profundidad intelectual.






His powers may be the ultimate hope, if they allow him to live.
Humanity is reaching for the stars, but what must we prove to get there?
She concealed her great gifts, but some plans were made to be broken.
By A.D. 2110 nearly 100,000 humans had fled the civilized strictures of the Galactic Milieu for the freedom they thought existed at the end of the one-way time tunnel to Earth, six million B.C. But all of them had fallen into the hands of the Tanu, a humanoid race who'd fled their own galaxy to avoid punishment for their barbarous ways. And now the humans had made the Tanu stronger than the Firvulag, their degenerate brethren and ritual antagonists. Soon the Tanu would reign supreme. Or so they thought . . . .
Book One in the Saga of the Exiles
Book One in the Saga of the Exiles The epic odyssey of the misfits amd mavericks of the 22nd Century who pass through the time-doors of the Pliocene Epoch into the battleground of two warring races from a planet far away... (Source: back cover)
The Frivulag are rising, while the children of the metaphysic rebels are to re-open the time gate - sole escape route back to the Galatic Milieu - and Marc Remillard, the adversary, takes up his destined role in the power play.
On Earth, six million B.C., two species of alien ruled, the graceful humanoid Tanu and their twisted brethren, the Firvulag. Then men from twenty-second century Earth arrived through a one-way time tunnel -- and soon the aliens were locked in a battle to the death, for the humans had upset the precarious balance of power that existed between them. But when the tides of combat had receded, no one group held firm control, though Aiken Drum, man of no woman born, had declared himself the Nonborn King . . . .