| abstract | - Julian May's Saga of the Exiles tells the story of human malcontents who leave the Galactic Milieu, a Federation of six allied psychic races including Humanity, and travel via a Portal to the Past to the Pliocene Era of Earth's history 6,000,000 years ago. The past is not quite what anyone expected. The time-travelers arrive to discover the Pliocene is already inhabited by a dimorphic race of aliens ('exotics'). The exotics, who have fled their home galaxy because of religious persecution, are marooned on Pliocene Earth as well. The exotics have difficulty reproducing on Earth, and so have enslaved many of the humans in an effort to overcome this problem, interbreeding with the more robust humans and influencing the legends of Celtic Mythology and The Fair Folk. The books making up the tetralogy are;
* The Many-Colored Land
* The Golden Torc
* The Nonborn King
* The Adversary
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