The saga of the exiles of the American writer Julian May has become one of the most famous works of science fiction abroad and has been published in more than one and a half million copies. The events in the novel take place 6 million years ago, in the Pliocene era, where the heroes find themselves through the so-called “gates of time” , discovered by a French physicist in the 21st century. People who decide to go into voluntary exile do not know that the ancient Earth is under the rule of warlike humanoids who arrived from another galaxy. Once enslaved by aliens, a group of earthlings begins a stubborn struggle against them. The writer captivatingly tells about fantastic events in which antiquity is intricately intertwined with modernity.