Mists of Dawn

by Chad Oliver

A 17-year-old makes an unplanned trip through space and time to Europe 50,000 years ago where Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man engage in conflict for survival. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083982520X
• ISBN13: 9780839825203
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Gregg Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Mists of Dawn Revisited

It seems that most of the reviewers of this old SF novel first read it as a child in the mid-50s (like me) and have preserved a love for it until the present time (like me). As I lay in bed last night carefully fondling my very expensive First Editon copy, my wife asked me how many times I had read this particular book. I guessed at roughly 100-200 times! I know most of the lines by heart, I think, and often imagined myself in Mark's shoes, pondering how I would have handled things or how the book would have been if the time machine had gone to various different times. I would not have picked Rome for a one-shot time travel adventure as I guess the time of Jesus or the War Between the States interests me more. I imagined staring into the eyes of Jesus as he carried his cross through the city...I imagined meeting my g-grandfather as he rode with the Confederate cavalry at Gettysburg or perhaps getting a glimpse of Robert E. Lee. It's really too bad that most of today's children don't get to use their imaginations as much as we baby-boomers did...I think it made us better persons later in life. This book is available through various internet bookstores in various conditions at inflated prices. A readable copy can be found for around $30.

For the true Si-Fi fan/addict - not to be missed.

This book put me on the trail of Si-Fi when it came out in 1954(?). I've re-read it many times since (by reserving it through the library system) and have been searching all the nooks and crannies of used book stores for lo, these past 20 years, to no avail. I can't expalin its hold on my psyche, but it's not to be denied. Chad Oliver penned a classic with this one. I'd like to give it 10 stars.

Time travel and adventure - a fantastic combination!

I read this book several times when I was younger; I loved science and science fiction, and this was a great book for both. I haven't seen it in years, but I wish I could find it again. I still think of this when I want to get away for a while.

This book takes you to see cavemen

The first time I read MOD was 6th grade and it lit my imagnation on fire. The next best book on fantastic time travel is The Time Machine- H.G. Wells. It's shocking how engrossing this book is. Now try and find a copy, yeah right, I've been searching for 15 years.