# Midsummer Century

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- Book: [Midsummer Century](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-blish/midsummer-century) ([Midsummer Century.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-blish/midsummer-century.md))
- Authors: [James Blish](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-blish)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7510-413-6
- Published: 2011-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In the year 25,000 AD When John Martels returned to consciousness he found himself the Delphic Oracle of a world far different from the Twentieth Century. Humanity has risen and fallen three times and was back once again in a semi-primative state. He shared his oracular powers with a mind and a device left over from the last Rebirth, but the real problem was not rebuilding civilization, it was that another genus of creatures had arisen to claim inheritance of the world - the evolved. Strangely intelligent birds, whose priority was the elimination of the world's former masters. The problem of man versus bird, complicated by the question of John's personal survival, presents a canvas worthy of the diverse talents of the author of A Case of Conscience and Cities in Flight.