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No Enemy But Time
Published 1982 by Timescape Books · 397 pages
Nebula · 1983
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3 award entries · 3 books · 1 wins · 1976–1995
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Synopsis
Joshua Kampa, a young Black man who dreams of Pleistocene Africa, joins a time-travel experiment that sends him two million years into the past. Living among early hominids, he forms relationships that compromise his role as an observer.
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