Time Slave
Appearance
Author | John Norman |
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Cover artist | Gino D'Achille |
Language | English |
Genre | Historical fiction, science fiction |
Publisher | DAW Books |
Publication date | 1975 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 380 |
ISBN | 978-0-7592-9778-4 |
OCLC | 1942479 |
Time Slave is a 1975 hybrid of historical fiction and science fiction by John Norman. In this book, Norman presents his personal theories of human evolution, exemplified by the case of a modern 20th century woman sent back in time 20,000 years or more; he mourns the loss of human evolutionary fitness and distortion of "natural" social relations which, in his view, occurred when farming spread and farmers squeezed hunter/gatherers to the ecological margins. Time Slave features Norman's social philosophy of male-dominance (as also in his Gor series), and expresses an unexplained connection between female sexual subordination and the speeding up of the development of space travel.
External links
[edit]- Time Slave title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database