Ancient of Days
Now back in print—a powerful science fiction masterwork from the Nebula Award-winning author of Count Geiger’s Blues.
Ancient of Days is among Michael Bishop’s most appealing works—the story of a prehistoric man found wandering in a Georgia orchard, whose honesty and deep spirituality bring him into conflict with the modern world.
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What if a living specimen of Homo habilis appeared in the pecan grove of a female artist living in Georgia? What if she reached out to her ex-husband, a restaurant owner in the small town of Beulah Fork, to help her establish the creature’s precise identity?
From these dramatic speculations, Michael Bishop creates a complex story spanning several years in the late 1980s and intertwining the lives of many fascinating and/or exasperating characters, including…
RuthClaire Loyd, an artist tasked with a project to illustrate several species of early human progenitors;
Paul Loyd, the narrator of Ancient of Days, who believes...
Author: Bishop Michael
ISBN: 9781933846392
Year of publication: 2013
Genre: Science fiction
Number of pages: 402
Reading time: 6 h. 42 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
