Julian May

The Golden Torc

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Firvulag do not require torcs, and most of them are weaker in mental power than the Tanu.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    From her husband’s death in 2041 until 2106, the rejuvenated Madame Guderian operated a peculiar establishment that the Galactic authorities reluctantly tolerated.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    French physicist named Théo Guderian unwittingly provided these square pegs with a unique escape hatch when he discovered an apparently useless phenomenon: a one-way, fixed-focus time-warp opening into France’s Rhône River Valley as it existed during the Pliocene Epoch, six million years ago.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    majority of the population, the mind-powers were either meager to the point of nullity, or else latent—that is, nearly unusable, because of psychological barriers or other factors.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Humans with overt metapsychic powers were slowly increasing in number; however, in the
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    More than 700 fresh planets had been colonized by exuberant Earthlings.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    By 2110, when the action of the first volume in this saga began, a kind of Golden Age prevailed
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    The latter—which include telepathy, psychokinesis, and many other powers—had lurked in the human gene pool from time immemorial, but only rarely were manifest.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Humanity became the sixth of the Coadunate Races, a commonwealth of planet colonizers who shared high technology and the capability of performing mental operations known as metafunctions
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    benevolent civilization, the Galactic Milieu.
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