The Golden Torc

Firvulag do not require torcs, and most of them are weaker in mental power than the Tanu.

From her husband’s death in 2041 until 2106, the rejuvenated Madame Guderian operated a peculiar establishment that the Galactic authorities reluctantly tolerated.

French physicist named Théo Guderian unwittingly provided these square pegs with a unique escape hatch when he discovered an apparently useless phenomenon: a one-way, fixed-focus time-warp opening into France’s Rhône River Valley as it existed during the Pliocene Epoch, six million years ago.

majority of the population, the mind-powers were either meager to the point of nullity, or else latent—that is, nearly unusable, because of psychological barriers or other factors.

Humans with overt metapsychic powers were slowly increasing in number; however, in the

More than 700 fresh planets had been colonized by exuberant Earthlings.

By 2110, when the action of the first volume in this saga began, a kind of Golden Age prevailed

The latter—which include telepathy, psychokinesis, and many other powers—had lurked in the human gene pool from time immemorial, but only rarely were manifest.

Humanity became the sixth of the Coadunate Races, a commonwealth of planet colonizers who shared high technology and the capability of performing mental operations known as metafunctions

benevolent civilization, the Galactic Milieu.