The Shadow Hunter

In order to save his people from starvation, 10-year-old "Sam" must face a cave bear. Having dreamed of her, he must be the one to kill her and merge with her spirit. If he can complete this quest, the people will live. But, in the midst of the hunt, both boy and bear are pulled into the far future.......more

Well, I've been completely bitten by the "listen-to-audio-book-bug"! I got myself an Audible account as a late Christmas gift and began with this very intriguing tale of a Neanderthal boy mistakenly transported into a modern future (perhaps a bit beyond us now): kind of a Jurassic Park in reverse st......more

A re telling of Asimov's "An Ugly Child", this is a revision by the author of her first novel. The revision makes the world of the future seem less clunky - ie satellite phones and the Internet are present, something she didn't envisage when she write the novel in the dark ages of 1982. I did enjoy......more

A Neanderthal boy is zapped from the past to the future. He keeps his beliefs and it's interesting to see how his life is changed and how he copes.......more

I immediately thought that this time-travel novel (written in the early 1980s and updated decades later) was a merger of Child in Time by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg with Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. It is, but it's much more like the former time-travel book. The hero and narrator of the......more