 First edition | |
| Author | John Norman |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Gino D'Achille |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical fiction, science fiction |
| Publisher | DAW Books |
Publication date | 1975 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 380 |
| ISBN | 978-0-7592-9778-4 |
| OCLC | 1942479 |
Time Slave is a 1975 hybrid of historical fiction and science fiction by John Norman. In this book, Norman presents his personal theories of human evolution, exemplified by the case of a modern 20th century woman sent back in time 50,000 years or more; he mourns the loss of human evolutionary fitness and distortion of "natural" social relations which, in his view, occurred when farming spread and farmers squeezed hunter/gatherers to the ecological margins. Time Slave features Norman's social philosophy of male-dominance (as also in his Gor series), and expresses an unexplained connection between female sexual subordination and the speeding up of the development of space travel.
