Many-Colored Land
Names: Many-Colored LandPliocene Epochthe PlioceneExilethe Pliocene worldthe other worldLand of No ReturnPontian EuropePliocene Earththe By-and-ByExile worldHigh KingdomPliocene ExileEuropeMany-Colored Kingdom
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 1The exiles name the planet the Many-Colored Land; it lies in a remote galaxy where none will dare to look for them.
- Ch 1Guderian calls the Pliocene a golden, tranquil time of benevolent climate, and says some soul-weary people would want to go there.
- Ch 6Elizabeth's destination of choice, which she seeks as a complete change from her life now.
- Ch 8Exile is the Pliocene, reached by time-portal. The Milieu officially sanctioned its use four years earlier, and applicants take a survival regimen.
- Ch 8People go to Exile because they want to go on living but cannot function in complex galactic civilization.
- Ch 9Called Exile; a refuge for psychosocial misfits, romantics and fugitives from the modern Galactic Age, who were considered doomed in some way anyhow.
- Ch 12Exile lets candidates apply through counselors, take tests, and sleep-learn simple technologies useful in the world beyond the time-gate; the colony has had nearly seventy years to develop.
- Ch 13Passage into Exile through the time-portal is irreversible; there is no return.
- Ch 14Time travelers have been going through the gate to the Pliocene since 2041, and Aiken estimates eighty or ninety thousand may live there.
- Ch 14Women timefarers are sterile, so settlements cannot replace lost skilled workers through apprentices and depend on gate operators sending trained people.
- Ch 14Candidates receive sleep-course training in basic neolithic technology and survival, then specialize in chosen vocations; vocational guidance has existed about four years.
- Ch 21Exile has roughly fifty thousand humans, little disease thanks to immunization and engineered resistance, and many deaths from accidents; serious trauma cannot be regenerated.
- Ch 21Tully claims high-culture persons dominate Exile while disturbed misfits hide in the mountains and remote places.
- Ch 22Six million years in the past, the Pliocene Rhône Valley is narrower and flatter, with the volcanoes Mont-Dore and Cantal smoking on the skyline.
- Ch 23Exile is Pliocene Earth, also called the Many-Colored Land, reached through a one-way time-portal from the far future.
- Ch 25Women are privileged and cherished in the Many-Colored Land because few come through the time-portal.
- Ch 31The Pliocene landscape is lush and full of animals such as gazelles, hipparions, mastodons and sabertooth cats, seeming a paradise apart from the soldiers and chains.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 3Europe is known to be in chaos, and ambitious young people on Ocala are hatching schemes of conquest there.
Connections
- related toAuberge du Portailhosts the time-gate to the Pliocene
- containsCastle Gateway
- containsMuriah
- containsFiniah
- includesCastle Gateway
- includesMuriah
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 1The Ship arrives and crashes
The dying Ship emerges near the planet; the exiles flee in flyers before it plunges into the eastern highlands, creating a huge crater.
- Book 1 · Ch 9Madame Guderian enters Exile
In 2106 Madame Guderian herself goes through the gate into the Pliocene, and the authorities keep the portal operating.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Second group translated into Exile
Aiken gets the device's diagram, then he, Claude, Annamaria and Elizabeth are translated. They arrive in a bright green-and-blue place and are helped out of the gate.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Arrival in Exile
Richard crosses through the time-portal to the Pliocene, shakes off the disorientation, surveys the landscape and is hurried toward Castle Gateway by a guardian.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Epone's metapsychic test and revelation
Epone tests Amerie with the coronet, then reveals the Tanu plan to use sterilized human women to bear Tanu children. Felice evades testing; both are to travel to Finiah.
- Book 3 · Ch 36Elizabeth warns Aiken that Felice is loose
Elizabeth farspeaks Aiken that Felice escaped and killed Amerie, urging him to abort the Quest and hide Culluket. Aiken refuses, curses her, and proceeds after scans suggest Felice is far from Mulhacén.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Marc withdraws into the regen tank
Marc, in agony, refuses help, goes alone to the regeneration tank and shuts off communication.