That is a spellbinding tale woven of equal parts epic and myth-with a liberal dash of hard science fiction.

Whenever a one-way period tunnel to Earth’s distant earlier, specifically six million BC, was discovered by folks for the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years about hurried to feed it. Each wanted his own brand of joy. But none could possess guessed what anticipated them. Not even in a million years.

In the first twenty-second century, many humans are being blessed with psychic capabilities and are linked in a single galactic mind. Those without these psychic powers-the misfits, undesirables, bad guys, and radicals-have a choice: mental reprogramming or exile. Exile, voluntary or elsewhere, takes them back six million years, to a period between the extinction of dinosaurs as well as the rise of Homo sapiens, and to a period of incredible surprises and unknown dangers.