Opalescence: The Middle Miocene Play of Color (ePub)

Have you an adventurous spirit? Do you remember
when the earth seemed so large, beautiful and
mysterious? Now travel back in time to an actual
epoch, the Miocene, when the whole world was lush
and rife with life. Roaring waterfalls, and bellowing
elephants. Clear blue skies and clear, clean water.
Rolling hills of green alive with delightful bird song.
Take a hike down the magnificent, and sometimes
dangerous, coast of prehistoric California with your
Aelurodon friend and experience REAL life - the way
it was meant to be lived!

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Opalescence starts out when total ecological
collapse, desperation and regret have become a
shocking reality. The world government, a fascist
corporatocracy, has ruled with an iron fist, but it's
losing its grip. Chaos is spreading, threatening the
borders. The time is short. When time travel to a
distant, unspoiled prehistoric past is accidentally
discovered by scientists, the regime is immediately
interested. Maybe this will be their way out. First,
though, they decide to send scouts back to
investigate.

Two people are chosen: Julie Pine, Paleontologist
and Under-Curator at the Los Angeles County
Natural History Museum, and Dietrich Jaqzen,
professional survivalist, government hit-man and big
game hunter. While Julie gathers information,
Jaqzen's job is to keep her safe for the 30 days the
mission is to last. There's a problem though. Jaqzen
is an unscrupulous rogue who has designs on Julie, a
married woman, and secretly plans to live a Tarzan
and Jane life with her in an earth all his own, raping
and pillaging both Julie and the beautiful Miocene
world. His personal hunting orgy.

Now begins the real adventure.

In the tradition of Clan of the Cave Bear and Jurassic
Park, Ron Rayborne's Opalescence is an imaginary
tale of a real world, the middle Miocene, 15,000,000
years ago. A time that science tells us was a real
paradise, in terms of biodiversity. It was a world that
very few know anything about.

"The later Tertiary mammalian fauna of the World
Continent was perhaps the richest that has ever
existed on the face of the earth." ~ Björn Kurtén. The
Age of Mammals, (chapter) The Miocene: Epoch of
Revolutions. Columbia University Press, 1971

"The familiar horses, zebras, asses and onagers that
share our modern world represent but a single
surviving branch on a once luxuriant equid family tree
that reached its full glory during the Miocene." ~ Bruce
J. Macfadden. Natural History 4/94. Article: The Heyday
of Horses

"Looking back the Pliocene [or the timeframe within
the Pliocene now called the Miocene] is something of
a paradise lost, a climax of the Age of Mammals
before the coming of the cold; a time when life was
richer, more exuberant than ever before or after." ~
Björn Kurtén. The Age of Mammals, (chapter) The
Pliocene: Epoch of Climax

"Lasting for millions of years, the mid-Miocene must
have seemed a kind of endless summer." ~ David Rains
Wallace. Neptune's Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas

Come now, come visit the middle Miocene!