2022/14,15: The Many-Colored Land and The Golden Torc -- Julian May

2022/14,15: The Many-Colored Land and The Golden Torc -- Julian May

Things are never going to be the same here again.
The sun-bright face darkened. Nodonn’s voice rolled in their minds. ‘Go back where you came from, accursed!’
Claude said: You fool. We came from here. [The Golden Torc, p. 348]

I first read Julian May's Saga of the Exiles in the mid-1980s, not long after the final book in the quartet was published. I was captivated by the characters, the plot, and the setting, and May's Pliocene has become part of my mental furniture. Following a discussion (there was wine) the other night, I found myself craving a reread, and powered through the first two novels in just over 24 hours.

I still love them.

They're not without flaws, and my reading experience is very different now, almost forty years after my first encounter with May's Pliocene world( Read more... )