Cryptozoic!

The human consciousness had now widened so alarmingly, was so busy transforming everything on Earth into its own peculiar tones, that no art could exist that did not take proper cognisance of the fact. Something entirely new had to be forged.The time traveller Bushs adventure takes him through 1930, 1851, the Jurassic and 2093, on the way exploring a modern crisis that remains our own.In Brian Aldiss's tale of time travel, the fiction is once again as psychologically imaginative as it is scientific, an idiosyncrasy of Aldisss future visions that, over time, have proven remarkably prescient. From the back cover: Edward Bush is a young artist millions of years from home, sketching the desolate landscapes of the Devonian age. There he meets Ann, another mind traveler, and they decide to travel together to the later Jurassic age -- where they materialize beside a 20-foot stegosaurus. Thus begins an extraordinary adventure across aeons of time, from Bush's home time, 2093 A.D., to the utterly alien experience of time uncreated -- the CRYPTOZOIC! Avon Books, 1977. Third Printing stated. He roamed through the dim reaches of the remote past and like a phantom, the Dark Woman haunted him at every turn. Was she a hallucination produced by the stresses of his bizarre existence? Or was she a ghost from a future more distant than his own? This novel was first serialized in New Worlds Speculative Fiction in 1967 as "An Age." The book, set principally in 2093, combines the popular science fiction themes of time travel, totalitarian dystopia, and the untapped potential of the human mind