TIME'S LAST GIFT

I don't want to give this away--but fans of the Edgar Rice Burroughs universe--like me--should REALLY enjoy this. Not only is it an outstanding time travel story, but Farmer has pulled a real number here. As you may know, he's a big ERB fan--in A Feast Unknown he did something similar with favorite fictional characters. This is even better. -Bud. Three men and a woman travel on board a timeship from the future of 2070 AD back to to 12,000 BC! For these anthropologists, it's a chance to study primitive man, the wild creatures and the very different world they inhabit. But none of them was prepared for what they would encounter, or for the impact of their travels in time that had yet to come… And one of the travelers is a thinly veiled very famous fictional character! A prequel to Philip Jose Farmer’s Ancient Opar series and a big fan favorite, first published in 1972 in paperback. I really, really enjoyed this. I've never read a lot of Farmer's work, but now I have to read the sequel, Ancient Opar! This is a straight-up. superbly written adventure taking modern men (and a woman) back to the ancient time of cavemen, mastodons, saber-tooth tigers, giant hyenas, wolf packs. And they even end up traveling over much of southern Europe and into North Africa (connected together by a land bridge at that time). And with a real shocker of an ending!!! - Bud Bonus Features:

• An introduction, “The Great Escape,” by Paul Spiteri
• An Afterword, “Gribardsun and the Wold Newton Family,” by Christopher Paul Carey
• “Gribardsun through the Ages: A Chronology of Major Events Pertinent to Time’s Last Gift,” by Win Scott Eckert and Dennis E. Power

Originally only published in paperback (Ballantine, 1972), Time’s Last Gift has been reprinted many times through the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s, but always in paperback. Also available as a hardcover limited edition.