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In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can visit the past using a technique called ''mind-travelling''. Artist Edward Bush returns from a lengthy ''trip'' to the Jurassic period to find the government overthrown by an authoritarian regime. Given his mind-travel experience, he is recruited by the new regime to track down and assassinate a scientist whose ideas threaten to topple the status quo. However, the job of an artist is not to take orders but to ask questions . . .

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Well-written, evocative and disturbing . . . Aldiss is a magician - Sunday Times

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      Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
      Publication Date: 02/11/2017
      ISBN13: 9781473222731, 978-1473222731
      ISBN10: 1473222737
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can visit the past using a technique called ''mind-travelling''. Artist Edward Bush returns from a lengthy ''trip'' to the Jurassic period to find the government overthrown by an authoritarian regime. Given his mind-travel experience, he is recruited by the new regime to track down and assassinate a scientist whose ideas threaten to topple the status quo. However, the job of an artist is not to take orders but to ask questions . . .

      Trade Review
      Excellent . . . ingenious and shocking - Sunday Telegraph

      Well-written, evocative and disturbing . . . Aldiss is a magician - Sunday Times

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