About the Book
First published as "An Age" in 1967 but the title was changed to "Cryptozoic!" in 1968.
Serialised in three parts in New Worlds, October, November and December 1967.
Bush materialised in the prehistoric shore... and the drama began.
For Bush was a mind-traveller, moving through time like a phantom... and haunted by a phantom, The Dark Woman. Was she a ghost from his future, or the product of a mind strained beyond endurance? Bush had other problems: emerging from the Devonian past into a totalitarian future he was trained to kill, sent back in time to assassinate a man who threatened the future.
This brilliant examination of the relationship between men and time is simultaneously a serious novel on that fascinating subject and a tense psychosexual thriller.
