I discovered the saga of the Pliocene Exiles in my mid-teens. It was a difficult period for me and I needed the escape the story offered. I am very fond of the series. They are quite hard to find now and I'm glad to have found these Librivox recordings of them on UA-cam.
I have loved this book for 40 years. Julian May could stand side by side with Tolkien , McCaffrey and Niven. Her Exiles Saga and Milieu Trilogy are masterpieces but it is Intervention, which introduces Rogatien Remillard, who may be a even better character than Aiken Drum or Marc/Unifex , and remains my favorite of the series. Frankly, someone in Hollywood us seriously sleeping on the Saga. Done right it could rival the best of Game of Thrones
i am right there with you, mark! i just can't believe that the series isn't available online! this is the only youtube i could find, which totally sucks. its difficult for me to read for long anymore without headaches
Not long finished the final one in this series for the second time and have bought the Galactic Milieu Series and am halfway into Jack the Bodiless. So many libraries are closing in England, many fine hardback books are to be had at a very cheap price.
WTF? DON'T WASTE 12 HOURS HERE. It's bad enough that the beginning is is not the BEGINNING, but the end isn't the end either. All these comments and no one mentions the pathetically poor effort to put the entire book up? We're on our way to kill the Death Star. "Luke, you've turned off..." THE END. BRILLIANT.
Too bad you didn’t look into the series before you started bitching. This was the first book written. Very much like your own example of Star Wars. The prequels didn’t come until later. You need to stop your whining and leave the comments to people who understand what is going on.
@@lancesurgeon7614 They're not talking about book order, they're talking about part of the book. The audio doesn't start at the start of the book, but later. It also doesn't end right - there's more book after the end.
Prologue Part 1 : 0:22 Part 2 : 8:52 Part 3 : 14:11 Part 1 - The Leavetaking : 30:56 Part 2 - The Initiation : 4:07:52 Part 3 - The Alliance : 10:28:57
I think it depends on which version that you read. May obviously made some changes for different changes. The beginning is the introduction in British paperback versions. This is a 12 hour book, so it doesn't seem abridged to me.
It is fairly common for authors to change formats depending on different factors. A hardback book will be different to a paperback. And the changesxarecysually designed to attract readers. This becomes important when different publishers publish different formats. Sometimes when a series of books prove popular, an author gets inundated with questions and the one way of dealing with it is to provide extra chapters or an introduction or a Q&A at the end of the book. My memory is that Intervention was published first in the UK and the first three books came later. So that might be the reason that this book seems different.
So this video cuts out a good chunk of the beginning and comes in mid sentence, only to end mid sentence and cut out a lot of the ending. Do not listen.
That’s not going to work because there isn’t an audio book version of book 2 or t3. What you need to do is email Audible and keep pestering them to adapt the book. Actually, audible are really good in that respect, they do it all the time they’re always adding people’s requests to the library, Here is their email address: content-requests@audible.co.uk
Funny, that pic must be the english cover (spell "coloured"). This series is in my top 3 and a great blend of fantasy and sci-fi. The series itself picks up in 'the golden torc' and follows through in the last 2 books. The prequels are good as well although not with these characters save one and was about the metapsychic rebellion. I have to admit though that by the last book in that series the amount of detail concerning clothing and food was a bit much.
This is not the original English paperback book cover! There where no "white bands" at top and bottom. I have the ones without, laugh! Took me about 4 hours to read this originally walking around book in left hand, making endless cups of tea with other. Then had to wait with what felt like ages for the next 2! Yes, Yes, I know there are more! Have those too! Oh and my favourite character will always be Roget. go read the books not going tell you more! Have fun..
@@tamsinlee6447 yes , the original UK paperbacks were blue. A friend lent me the first two, finished each in two days. Then waited 6 months for 3 and I think a year for 4. Then ages for intervention (had to buy the hardback for that , couldn't wait for the paperback). Still have them all.
@@paulqueripel3493 Have you read some of the other Julian May books? Personally I couldn't get on with the Trillium series and the Rampart series was a good detective story romp. I have possibly read the Boreal Moon books, but cannot have made much of an impression... Stephen Donaldson is from, sort of, the same era, although I got a bit fed up with how depressed his Thomas character was. Katherine Kerr is quite good initially with the Deverry series, although that loses the plot a bit as time goes on. Try her standalones.. Palace, Snare and Polar City. Sorry, just adore books, have about 2k maybe 3000 paperbacks alone, (about 2 cubic meters when packed...movers love me, books are heavy!) Had to unpack my Julian May box and read them again, which meant unpacking Kerr and Donaldson and repacking the box with Bernard Cornwall, Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell. I have 3 6foot by 3foot bookcases double stacked (along with other bookcases) but still do not have enough room! I have a 150sq, metre veg. garden, pigs, poultry, dogs, cats and 3 hungry teenagers...(hence audio books) Please laugh at me...there should be a bibliophiles anonymous!
@@opolecat1991 idk. I didn't and it was awesome to go back in time for answers. Even the series loosely related. The title escapes me. But overall it was like validation of the awesome trilogy I'd just read. May is so articulate, I doubt any movie could do it justice, even with today's graphics.
Funny, I just finished re-reading this book. It was among the paperbacks I selected from a fellow military dorm-rat who was giving away a portion of his library in preparation for an upcoming transfer during the mid 1980s. Those books were my true introduction to both Sci-Fi and Fantasy. (Though I had read Tolkien's Lord of Rings and The Hobbit a decade earlier I considered them one-offs). I quickly tired of Sci-Fi while Fantasy became my preferred literary genre.
you can take a boat ride down a river with rapids but it is much harder to get it back up to the top of the river again much less overall effort to get where you are going without using a boat in the first place it could take ten times as long to make the reverse journey so you would need a lot more boats and if people/aliens were afraid of water why use them in the first place. for a one way advantage of speed against a much higher overall effort? nice plot line but not a logical one.
The narrator’s attempt to imitate an old person’s voice is laughably bad: Liissteenn too mee chhiillldd Iii oonnly wannntt whhhaatts bbeessst fooorrrr yyooouuu
In my view almost as spectacular and original as the master Tolkein in the saga of the exiles. Excellent story flow.Highly underrated especially by the unimaginative.Her scholarly ability and creativity,like many of her generation are belittled too often. Compare this with the garbage that is game of thrones,which seems to have stolen all it's ideas from every great fiction work of the last 50 years. sadly i did not like the milieu series as much though it did have a lot going for it. read on fellow bibliophiles for the the best time for these genres is 1950 to early 80's.Then it all goes PC and we end with friends and game of thrones.we could not be lower. 𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘗𝘏𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘛𝘖 𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘔 𝘈𝘓𝘓, 𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘚𝘌𝘈𝘙𝘊𝘏 𝘛𝘖 𝘍𝘐𝘕𝘋 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘔, 𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘛𝘞𝘌𝘌𝘛 𝘛𝘖 𝘉𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘔 𝘈𝘓𝘓, 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘐𝘕 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘊𝘏𝘈𝘛𝘙𝘖𝘖𝘔 𝐁𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘔. wake up!
The only audiobooks I've tracked down is the second one - The golden torc. Two copies, both in Australian libraries (Victoria and Brisbane) and they're on cassettes, lol. I'm actually heading to Oz this year and will be keen to get my hands on it. I'll repackage and upload, maybe I can spark enough interest for someone like Brick to redo the series.
Meta-PSYCHIC not Meta-PHYSIC. It means "Beyond Psychic," not "New Agey Crystal Waving, Incense Burning Pothead." And this is a legit Audiobook no less! Whoever edited this release should have been forced to take Remedial Composition as a condition for keeping their job.
@@lamusclebrit Well...i gotta agree with D Jenser on this one. Considering Metapsychic, psychokinesis, psychocreativity, psychocoercion etc are prevalent throughout the books. it should be said perfectly. Now if you will excuse me, i'm going to re-read Tolkien because i love books about Wozards like Grandaulf the Great.
telepathic aliens seek refuge on earth in the age after the dinosaurs, humans end up back in time and contend with these super beings, who turn out to be assholes. havent read this in 30 yrs. I think thats the gist of it.
@@OneAccord1 I'm getting ready to reread the series. Had to get a new MCL cause it got lent then wet. Dont lend valuable books, these are valuable to me. I have the other 7 still and Intervention. Should I start with Jack? I rember it to be good. But then where, there's a lot of options. If you do get this, thanks for your reply, and thanks for being a Julian May fan.
@@ericemond9006 hi Eric. I agree the style is just awesome. For me, starting with Jack gave the apex but not its zenith and so was great to start - with the other books in order, then lead into the first trilogy. I'm not sure if you're a fan of the TV show 'lost' but not knowing the history of the intervention made it very much like that. Cliffhangers lol.
I discovered the saga of the Pliocene Exiles in my mid-teens. It was a difficult period for me and I needed the escape the story offered. I am very fond of the series.
They are quite hard to find now and I'm glad to have found these Librivox recordings of them on UA-cam.
I have loved this book for 40 years. Julian May could stand side by side with Tolkien , McCaffrey and Niven. Her Exiles Saga and Milieu Trilogy are masterpieces but it is Intervention, which introduces Rogatien Remillard, who may be a even better character than Aiken Drum or Marc/Unifex , and remains my favorite of the series. Frankly, someone in Hollywood us seriously sleeping on the Saga. Done right it could rival the best of Game of Thrones
i am right there with you, mark! i just can't believe that the series isn't available online! this is the only youtube i could find, which totally sucks. its difficult for me to read for long anymore without headaches
@@dlee3710 you have no taste then. Hunger games is pablum next to the Exile Saga
Don't forget Michael Moorcock❗
'Julian May could stand side by side with Tolkien' nonsense, this stuff is drivel in comparison!
@@V081WLBlue you expect me to take Your literary criticism seriously with your screen name and hulk icon? Hie thee hence to thine kennel
Not long finished the final one in this series for the second time and have bought the Galactic Milieu Series and am halfway into Jack the Bodiless. So many libraries are closing in England, many fine hardback books are to be had at a very cheap price.
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Love all this series, thank you
Is the rest on UA-cam do you know please
One of the classics.
😢 Unfortunately this recording is not the full audio book! The voice finished page at 306 with still 100 more to go 😢
WTF? DON'T WASTE 12 HOURS HERE.
It's bad enough that the beginning is is not the BEGINNING, but the end isn't the end either. All these comments and no one mentions the pathetically poor effort to put the entire book up? We're on our way to kill the Death Star. "Luke, you've turned off..." THE END.
BRILLIANT.
Too bad you didn’t look into the series before you started bitching. This was the first book written. Very much like your own example of Star Wars. The prequels didn’t come until later. You need to stop your whining and leave the comments to people who understand what is going on.
Actually, thanks for the comment And the reply! Now I know what I'm getting into
@@lancesurgeon7614 They're not talking about book order, they're talking about part of the book. The audio doesn't start at the start of the book, but later. It also doesn't end right - there's more book after the end.
Agreed. Fair assessment. The narration is annoying.
Why is there not audio versions of all the other Pliocene Exile books? Such a shame
Not in youtube
I'm as disappointed as I was years ago when I first read the books.
I would have preferred the romp and adventure without any of the mind stuff 🙂
Prologue
Part 1 : 0:22
Part 2 : 8:52
Part 3 : 14:11
Part 1 - The Leavetaking : 30:56
Part 2 - The Initiation : 4:07:52
Part 3 - The Alliance : 10:28:57
Part 1 - The Leavetaking
Chapter 1 : 30:56 (Mercedes)
Chapter 2 : 41:09 (Stein)
Chapter 3 : 56:05 (Richard)
Chapter 4 : 1:06:31 (Felice)
Chapter 5 : 1:14:44 (Elizabeth)
Chapter 6 : 1:21:24 (Aitkin)
Chapter 7 : 1:27:21 (Claude/Amerie)
Chapter 8 : 1:50:12 (Guderian)
Chapter 9 : 2:12:10 (Richard
Chapter 10 : 2:23:16 (Stein
Chapter 11 : 2:27:21 (Richard/Stein/
Chapter 12 : 2:44:06 (Felice)
Chapter 13 : 2:49:31 (Elizabeth/Aitkin)
Chapter 14 : 3:04:42 (
Chapter 15 : 3:12:35 (Claude/
Chapter 16 : 3:16:43 (Amerie
Chapter 17 : 3:27:42 (Brian
Chapter 18 : 3:38:18 (group green)
Chapter 19 : 3:55:45 (leave taking)
Part 2 - The Initiation
Chapter 1 : 4:07:52 (Castle Gateway/Brian)
Chapter 2 : 4:26:46 (Richard/Lady Epone)
Chapter 3 : 4:44:29 (Elizabeth/
Chapter 4 : 5:01:08 (Aitkin
Chapter 5 : 5:12:38 (Amerie/Felice/Epone)
Chapter 6 : 5:28:42 (Claude/
Chapter 7 : 5:55:32 (
Chapter 8 : 6:20:02 (
Chapter 9 : 6:34:34 (
Chapter 10 : 6:55:15 (
Chapter 11 : 7:19:24 (
Chapter 12 :
Chapter 13 :
Chapter 14 : 8:43:04 (
Chapter 15 :
Chapter 16 : 9:35:43 (Stein/Suki)
Chapter 17 : 9:54:58 (Claude/Richard/Amerie)
Chapter 18 : 10:20:58 (Madame
You have 5 amazing books on your channel all unique in their own way
Sorry I meant version.
this is not the entire book
I remember the the whole book being like 2 and a half inches thick, back before the internet.
I think it depends on which version that you read. May obviously made some changes for different changes. The beginning is the introduction in British paperback versions. This is a 12 hour book, so it doesn't seem abridged to me.
It is fairly common for authors to change formats depending on different factors. A hardback book will be different to a paperback. And the changesxarecysually designed to attract readers. This becomes important when different publishers publish different formats.
Sometimes when a series of books prove popular, an author gets inundated with questions and the one way of dealing with it is to provide extra chapters or an introduction or a Q&A at the end of the book.
My memory is that Intervention was published first in the UK and the first three books came later. So that might be the reason that this book seems different.
So this video cuts out a good chunk of the beginning and comes in mid sentence, only to end mid sentence and cut out a lot of the ending. Do not listen.
yay give us book 2. cant find audio version anywhere
we still don't have book two. come on guys.
That’s not going to work because there isn’t an audio book version of book 2 or t3. What you need to do is email Audible and keep pestering them to adapt the book. Actually, audible are really good in that respect, they do it all the time they’re always adding people’s requests to the library, Here is their email address: content-requests@audible.co.uk
Funny, that pic must be the english cover (spell "coloured"). This series is in my top 3 and a great blend of fantasy and sci-fi. The series itself picks up in 'the golden torc' and follows through in the last 2 books. The prequels are good as well although not with these characters save one and was about the metapsychic rebellion. I have to admit though that by the last book in that series the amount of detail concerning clothing and food was a bit much.
Yes it has the correct English spelling
Funny? The name of the language is a bit of a giveaway Fred. Nothing funny about it really.
This is not the original English paperback book cover! There where no "white bands" at top and bottom. I have the ones without, laugh! Took me about 4 hours to read this originally walking around book in left hand, making endless cups of tea with other. Then had to wait with what felt like ages for the next 2!
Yes, Yes, I know there are more! Have those too!
Oh and my favourite character will always be Roget. go read the books not going tell you more! Have fun..
@@tamsinlee6447 yes , the original UK paperbacks were blue. A friend lent me the first two, finished each in two days. Then waited 6 months for 3 and I think a year for 4. Then ages for intervention (had to buy the hardback for that , couldn't wait for the paperback). Still have them all.
@@paulqueripel3493
Have you read some of the other Julian May books?
Personally I couldn't get on with the Trillium series and the Rampart series was a good detective story romp.
I have possibly read the Boreal Moon books, but cannot have made much of an impression...
Stephen Donaldson is from, sort of, the same era, although I got a bit fed up with how depressed his Thomas character was.
Katherine Kerr is quite good initially with the Deverry series, although that loses the plot a bit as time goes on. Try her standalones.. Palace, Snare and Polar City.
Sorry, just adore books, have about 2k maybe 3000 paperbacks alone, (about 2 cubic meters when packed...movers love me, books are heavy!)
Had to unpack my Julian May box and read them again, which meant unpacking Kerr and Donaldson and repacking the box with Bernard Cornwall, Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell. I have 3 6foot by 3foot bookcases double stacked (along with other bookcases) but still do not have enough room!
I have a 150sq, metre veg. garden, pigs, poultry, dogs, cats and 3 hungry teenagers...(hence audio books)
Please laugh at me...there should be a bibliophiles anonymous!
Where's the rest of the Book??
Bookmark
1:33:15
Jack the bodiless is the place to begin. All the other books tie in. Great stories and well written.
You want to start with intervention actually
@@opolecat1991 idk. I didn't and it was awesome to go back in time for answers. Even the series loosely related. The title escapes me.
But overall it was like validation of the awesome trilogy I'd just read. May is so articulate, I doubt any movie could do it justice, even with today's graphics.
that seems innaccurate as this is #1 in the pilliocene sreies.
@@dlee3710 perhaps it is. I discovered Jack first and so, it was #1 for me.
@@opolecat1991 really cuz some emm
Funny, I just finished re-reading this book. It was among the paperbacks I selected from a fellow military dorm-rat who was giving away a portion of his library in preparation for an upcoming transfer during the mid 1980s. Those books were my true introduction to both Sci-Fi and Fantasy. (Though I had read Tolkien's Lord of Rings and The Hobbit a decade earlier I considered them one-offs). I quickly tired of Sci-Fi while Fantasy became my preferred literary genre.
SenileImbecile have you read the books set in rhe future? all loops round and dovetails well
you can take a boat ride down a river with rapids but it is much harder to get it back up to the top of the river again much less overall effort to get where you are going without using a boat in the first place it could take ten times as long to make the reverse journey so you would need a lot more boats and if people/aliens were afraid of water why use them in the first place. for a one way advantage of speed against a much higher overall effort? nice plot line but not a logical one.
this book is incomplete
The narrator’s attempt to imitate an old person’s voice is laughably bad:
Liissteenn too mee chhiillldd Iii oonnly wannntt whhhaatts bbeessst fooorrrr yyooouuu
In my view almost as spectacular and original as the master Tolkein in the saga of the exiles.
Excellent story flow.Highly underrated especially by the unimaginative.Her scholarly ability and creativity,like many of her generation are belittled too often.
Compare this with the garbage that is game of thrones,which seems to have stolen all it's ideas from every great fiction work of the last 50 years.
sadly i did not like the milieu series as much though it did have a lot going for it.
read on fellow bibliophiles for the the best time for these genres is 1950 to early 80's.Then it all goes PC and we end with friends and game of thrones.we could not be lower.
𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘗𝘏𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘛𝘖 𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘔 𝘈𝘓𝘓,
𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘚𝘌𝘈𝘙𝘊𝘏 𝘛𝘖 𝘍𝘐𝘕𝘋 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘔,
𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘛𝘞𝘌𝘌𝘛 𝘛𝘖 𝘉𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘔 𝘈𝘓𝘓,
𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘐𝘕 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘊𝘏𝘈𝘛𝘙𝘖𝘖𝘔 𝐁𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘔.
wake up!
Got bored... lost the thread and moved on...
wow
2:54
Profound. Epiphanal. Thank you. BTW: If you are still listening to this audio book, don't waste your time. More of the end was cut off than the start.
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Anyone know where I can find the other audiobooks in the series... and I don't mean audible lol
The only audiobooks I've tracked down is the second one - The golden torc. Two copies, both in Australian libraries (Victoria and Brisbane) and they're on cassettes, lol. I'm actually heading to Oz this year and will be keen to get my hands on it. I'll repackage and upload, maybe I can spark enough interest for someone like Brick to redo the series.
@fred kelly really? Did you get them mate?
A book in hand is worth more than any audio.
Meta-PSYCHIC not Meta-PHYSIC.
It means "Beyond Psychic," not "New Agey Crystal Waving, Incense Burning Pothead."
And this is a legit Audiobook no less! Whoever edited this release should have been forced to take Remedial Composition as a condition for keeping their job.
Oh good grief..and you would be perfect i am sure
@@lamusclebrit everyone is a genius these days right.
@@bmoneybby seems like it..in their own minds
@@lamusclebrit
Well...i gotta agree with D Jenser on this one. Considering Metapsychic, psychokinesis, psychocreativity, psychocoercion etc are prevalent throughout the books. it should be said perfectly.
Now if you will excuse me, i'm going to re-read Tolkien because i love books about Wozards like Grandaulf the Great.
I'm lost .
What is going on ?
feminist fantasy time travel
56:06
Someone sum this up for me. I have a book meeting with a friend next week and haven't started on the book
telepathic aliens seek refuge on earth in the age after the dinosaurs, humans end up back in time and contend with these super beings, who turn out to be assholes. havent read this in 30 yrs. I think thats the gist of it.
@@dlee3710 much appreciated.
Jack the bodiless is the place to begin. All the other books tie in. Great stories and well written.
@@OneAccord1 I'm getting ready to reread the series. Had to get a new MCL cause it got lent then wet. Dont lend valuable books, these are valuable to me. I have the other 7 still and Intervention. Should I start with Jack? I rember it to be good. But then where, there's a lot of options. If you do get this, thanks for your reply, and thanks for being a Julian May fan.
@@ericemond9006 hi Eric. I agree the style is just awesome.
For me, starting with Jack gave the apex but not its zenith and so was great to start - with the other books in order, then lead into the first trilogy.
I'm not sure if you're a fan of the TV show 'lost' but not knowing the history of the intervention made it very much like that. Cliffhangers lol.