Time's Last Gift Author:Philip Jose Farmer They were four… — trained scientists, each of them skilled in several disciplines—because this was an opportunity that would never occur again—never again would men from the world of 2780 A.D. have the chance to examine the world of 12,000 B.C. What they learned and taped would be the only record ever made of this period of prehistory. — But absol... more »utely no one in their own world of 2780 A.D. or in the borrowed time of 12,000 B.C. could have imagined what their tapes came up with…« less