No Enemy But Time (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Bishop
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—time travel
- Time of Work: 1963-2002 and two million years in the past
- Setting: East Africa
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, Twentieth century, Future, Twenty-first century, Time travel, Prehistoric humans
- Locales: Africa
The Plot
The novel is composed of chapters that alternate between two narratives. The first begins in 1986 as protagonist John Monegal, a twenty-three-year-old black American, is undergoing survival training in a fictional East African country in preparation for a trip back in time to study proto-humans. The narrative, told in first person, centers primarily on his two years spent two million years in the past.
The other, third-person narrative begins in 1963 with John as a small child in Spain. John’s mother was a mute prostitute in Seville. Fearing that she would be...
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