The Nonborn King: Volume III in the Saga of Pliocene Exile [Hardcover]

Julian May (Author)

Book Description

Series: The saga of Pliocene exile | Publication Date: January 1983

The story began with a group of talented misfits from the Galactic Milieu of 2110 A.D. who passed through a time portal, hoping to find an idyllic world six million years ago in Earth's Pliocene Epoch. Instead, they encountered two exiled alien races—the knightly Tanu, who had made slaves of the time travelers,and the dwarfish Firvulag, fierce rivals of the Tanu. At the end of The Golden Tore, one of the humans, Felice Landry, engineered a stunning cataclysm, a flood that destroyed the Tanu capital and put an end to that race's domination of Pliocene Europe. In The Nonbom King, Aiken Drum, a young human with awesome mental powers, manages to usurp the Tanu throne. Aiken faces opposition from human-hating Tanu, from free humans who mistrust his fantastic mind-powers, from the madwoman Felice, who has vowed to destroy him, and from the revitalized Firvulag, who now greatly out-number the Tanu-human coalition that Aiken has patched together. Aiken's efforts to retain his throne are complicated by the appearance of a new menace posed by survivors of the Metapsychic Rebellion of 2083, who, for the past 27 years, lived quietly in North America. Now these powerful humans, led by Marc Remillard, who almost succeeded in destroying the benevolent Galactic Milieu, seek to take advantage of the chaos in King Aiken's Many-Colored Land in order to seize control of the time-portal.  The Nonborn King features the same blend of adventure, rich pageantry, humor, and fantastic eroticism that characterized The Many-Colored Land and The Golden Tore.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 394 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T); 1ST edition (January 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395322111
• ISBN-13: 978-0395322116
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #916,611 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Worst editing I've ever seen in a mass-market publication, November 27, 2011

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J. Pilgrim - See all my reviews

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This review is from: NON BORN KING (The saga of Pliocene exile) (Kindle Edition)

I have been eagerly awaiting this series in Kindle format and now that I've got it I wish the publisher had waited a little longer and gotten the job done right. Typographical problems like "96 THE NONBORN KING" appearing in the middle of a paragraph, bad hyphenations, and mis-spellings are ruining the experience of an otherwise very enjoyable series of books. I read these in the mass-market paperback editions back in the 80's and there was nothing like this in those editions.

I hate to give this one star when the story, including all the books in the series, deserves a 4 or 5, but Amazon really needs to step up here. These typos and mis-spellings are present in the first two books of this series, The Many Colored Land and The Golden Torc, as well. Unfortunately "torc" is mis-spelled as "tore" more often than not inside the books.

1.0 out of 5 stars Shame on publisher!, January 25, 2012

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Zachary Braverman (Kyoto Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NON BORN KING (The saga of Pliocene exile) (Kindle Edition)

I hate giving this book 1 star, because it deserves 5. Heck, it deserves 10. The book is a classic.

But, the incredible number of spelling (most egregious of which is "tore" over and over again for "torc") and punctuation errors (many periods are absent) make it painful to read. Obviously the publisher just automated the process of character recognition, then gave the result to Amazon to feel WITHOUT A SINGLE MINUTE OF QUALITY CONTROL. If a human being had spend a single minute looking at this book, they would have realized how many errors it had.

Thank you, Julian May, for writing an excellent book.

Shame on you, publishers, for having no quality control whatsoever.