The Many-Colored Land: Volume 1 of the Saga of Pliocene Exile

Julian May

Oct 2010 · Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

About this audiobook

This is a spellbinding tale woven of equal parts epic and myth—with a liberal dash of hard science fiction.

When a one-way time tunnel to Earth’s distant past, specifically six million BC, was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years around hurried to pass through it. Each sought his own brand of happiness. But none could have guessed what awaited them. Not even in a million years.

In the early twenty-second century, many humans are being born with psychic powers and are linked in a single galactic mind. Those without these psychic powers—the misfits, undesirables, criminals, and radicals—have a choice: mental reprogramming or exile. Exile, voluntary or otherwise, takes them back six million years, to a time between the extinction of dinosaurs and the rise of Homo sapiens, and to a time of exotic surprises and unknown dangers.

Ratings and reviews

I couldn't believe how much of everything was put into this story and the 7 or 8 that follow. I read them all 30 years ago or when released. I still had all the books except the first one that I had lent out trying to impress someone who got it wet. 2020 I got "Many Colored Lands" for birthday to replace old one. I tried reading it for a bit but found that after 30 years I can't read as well. I need this recording to reread the story that deeply influenced me long ago, I'll sure need the rest.

what can I say ? need to listen to the next one? when reading the book I have different voices going through my brain,listening to one slightly off kilter voice didn't give me the same pleasure

ready for the next one!!!

About the author

Julian May lives in Washington state and has been writing science fiction and fantasy for more than thirty years.

Bernadette Dunne has been honored to narrate the work of some of the finest fiction and nonfiction writers of our time, including Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, and Sandra Day O'Connor. The winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and a three-time Audie Award nominee, she has voiced countless bestsellers, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Devil Wears Prada, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She studied at The Royal National Theater and lives in New York.