Ancient of Days

Now back in print—a powerful science fiction masterwork from the Nebula Award-winning author of .

Ancient of Days

WHomo habilis

From these dramatic speculations, Michael Bishop creates a complex story spanning several years in the late 1980s and intertwining the lives of many fascinating and/or exasperating characters, including…

RuthClaire Loyd

Paul LoydAncient of Days

Brian Nollinger

Dwight “Happy” McElroy

A. P. Blair

and , the living human fossil whom RuthClaire has named and dared to take into her home.

Over the course of , these characters and others work out their loves and conflicts across a variety of backdrops—from rural Georgia to the bistros and back alleys of Atlanta, all the way to the forests and caves of antique Montaraz, an enigmatic island under the dictatorial sway of “Baby Doc” Duvalier of Haiti.

A rare combination of science fiction, noir mystery, and comedy of manners, will involve and challenge you as have few other novels.