Share <Embed>

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See this image

Follow the Author

Julian May

Many-Coloured Land Paperback – 8 January 1982

by Julian May (Author)

143 ratings

See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Amazon Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$7.99

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$37.52

$35.95

—

This is the first book in "The Saga of the Exiles" series. Among the misfits and mavericks of the 22nd century, there are those who pass through the time-doors of the Pliocene Epoch into the battleground of two warring races from a planet far away.

Customers who bought this item also bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

Julian May
6
Mass Market Paperback
$66.25
Julian May
47
Hardcover
$253.27

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

Julian May
160
Paperback
$38.09
Terry Pratchett
2,004
Paperback
$16.19
Stephen Donaldson
19
Paperback
$97.82
Jan Siegel
25
Paperback
$29.87
Amanda Hemingway
12
Hardcover
$47.69
Susan Cooper
354
Paperback
$17.03

Start reading The Many-Coloured Land: Exiles 1 on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Product details

Publisher : Tor (8 January 1982)
Language : English
Paperback : 416 pages
ISBN-10 : 033026656X
ISBN-13 : 978-0330266567
Dimensions : 17.8 x 2.6 x 11.1 cm

Customer Reviews:
143 ratings

What other items do customers buy after viewing this item?

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

Customer reviews

5 star		77%
4 star		18%
3 star		2%
2 star		3%
1 star		1%

How are ratings calculated?

Review this product

Write a customer review

Top reviews from Australia

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Linda Jane

AWESOME

Reviewed in Australia on 9 February 2020

Verified Purchase

The best series l’ve ever read

Helpful

egg

Julian Mays masterwork

Reviewed in Australia on 23 January 2015

Verified Purchase

I have not read this book for many many years. Returning to it was a joy as I appreciated a great story written by a great story teller

Helpful

Gem

An absolute masterpiece and a beloved old favourite of mine.

Reviewed in Australia on 18 October 2015

A fantastic series; well written and researched. May fills out the world of the Pliocene and its inhabitants with amazing detail and a story that sucks me in every time I read it ... this is a series I read again and again! Start with the 4 books of the Pliocene saga and then move onto Intervention and the Galactic Milieu trilogy which take place both in the future of the Pliocene and the past of some of its characters. Every time I finish this series I find myself wishing there was more!

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Mark Crook

At last.......................!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 July 2013

Verified Purchase

The Saga of the Exiles on e-reader! Excellent!

First read Julian May's brilliant Saga years and years ago and still have the paperbacks. Went on from the Pliocene exiles to Jack the Bodiless and Diamond Mask and all the rest of the Milieu stories. Fabulous stories of telepathically and psychokinetically operant humans and how they got there. Yes, it's nonsense by any normal, everyday standards but the story is a huge sweep of imagination with cleverness and wit woven right the way through it - Aiken Drum, the trickster and arch-manipulator being the spitting image of Machiavelli, for instance.

If you're an SF buff I highly recommend this series. Funnily enough, I was looking idly for it as e-books just a few months ago and there was nothing available from "official" channels - an unofficial copy I found and downloaded had no formatting. You'd be amazed how flat and boring a story becomes with no paragraphs! Then they appeared as "trade copies" - not quite sure what that means, but perhaps it's associated with one gripe I do have about the e-versions - that scanner misreads haven't been sub-edited out. For example, one of the Firvulag Great Heroes is called Sharn-Mes; usually abbreviated to Sharn. In the e-version it appears about 70% of the time as "Sham" which grates badly every time. There are other examples.

Nonetheless, I'm ploughing my way through the whole lot all over again and loving it. Give yourself a treat. Get at least the four "Saga" books and read them!

6 people found this helpful

N. Roderick

The best fantasy series ever !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2012

Verified Purchase

I first started reading these in my student days (many years ago now !) and became completely enthralled with the story and the characters. Later, when the second series prequel/sequel came out I was equally mesmerised.

The characters are so colourful and complex, and it is a rollercoaster ride through both the history and future of our planet with mystery, politics, family, aliens, love, sex, good and evil all woven together in a fantastic story.

It may very well be heresy, but I think they are much better than Lord of the Rings. If I start reading the first book, I don't get anything else done for weeks because I have to finish all eight ! I have read the whole series many times over the years. I can't understand why they have never attracted greater attention and why they are out of print.

I hope they become available on the kindle soon, or I will be reduced to buying myself second hand backup copies to ensure that I am never without this brilliant series. If my son wants to read them (when he's a little older than 13), he might have to have his own set !! I will be guarding mine jealously ....

3 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

The Galactic Mileu cannot spell

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2013

Verified Purchase

First read the books many years ago and enjoyed the story immensely. It is a very well thought out and thought- provoking series of books. The Kindle editions however are peppered with spelling errors (I know that some of them are US versions of words) but there a lot of other basic errors that seem to have escaped the proofreaders. Book 2 seems especially bad. I think if you were reading the books for the first time via Kindle it might be confusing although still enjoyable. I think it would also be good if Amazon Kindle published this type of book in a 3 volume set rather than individual novels.

Grumbles aside Julian May creates a world like no other. It is a novel sci-fi theme that reverts to the past prehistory of the Earth from the future...roll on the Intervention!!

3 people found this helpful

Un peu de ca va

A Cross-Genre Masterpiece

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 June 2011

Verified Purchase

There are those who will never read anything that has a spaceship in the story. Then there are those who will never read anything that involves fantasy, magic, swords or dragons. For the rest of us, although there are no dragons, this is a unique blend of great, sustained storytelling approximately but not entirely in the SF/Fantasy genre, combined with a leap of the imagination which I have not seen equalled for its effect long after one has finished the books. She combines plausible future history and technology with an inspired link to our distant evolutionary past via time travel, and even weaves in the myths of our early societies. The childish desires of us all are also indulged with wonderfully imagined treats such as the ability to fly unaided or blow up a whole mountain with the power of thought alone.

Quite brilliant and with very wide appeal - if you can deal with one spaceship (at the beginning) and plenty of swords (in the middle). If not, well there's always that biography of Clinton to get to....

6 people found this helpful

Syrene

One of my favourites

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2014

Verified Purchase

This is the first book in the 'Saga of the Exiles', where social misfits/criminals, unable to adapt to humanity's new standing in a Galactic Civilisation, are able to take a one way trip into Earth's distant past with the chance to start a new simpler life. Most are hoping for a Garden of Eden where they can live out their lives as fisherman/small holders/viticulturists and escape the stresses of living in their future.
Obviously this doesn't come to pass. Earth's past is dominated by a malign exotic alien species and the integration of the individual time-travellers into this society is problematic...

2 people found this helpful

See all reviews

Follow the Author

Similar authors to follow

Many-Coloured Land Paperback – 8 January 1982

Customers who bought this item also bought

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Product details

What other items do customers buy after viewing this item?

Customer reviews

Review this product

Top reviews from Australia

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries