"The Bones of the Earth" is Swanwick's best-known non-cyberpunk novel. The theme of "time travel" is one of the most common in classic science fiction. However, NO ONE has managed to do the SAME thing with this theme as Michael Swanwick. Sprint by civilizations..."Sponsors of humanity" are "strangers"...The Age of Dinosaurs from a very unexpected perspective...And all this - in the style of "rock and roll"!