No Enemy But Time Author:Michael Bishop John Monegal, rootless, alienated, beset by the manifold complexities of modern life, lives a secret life in his dreams, his spirit traveling to a bright equatorial world he comes to love. — As a young black man, working in a dead-end job, he encounters a scientist who is interested in his dreams and offers him the possibility of living them. A s... more »ecret experiment in time travel sends John a million years into the past in Central Africa and, at last, he finds his dreams...and his home. Stranded and alone, he joins a tribe of proto-hominids and learns to survive while providing them with a few of the handy benefits of his own time and place. Out of this life comes love, and eventually, family.« less