Time Slave is a 1975 hybrid of
historical fiction and
science fiction by
philosopher John Norman. In this book, Norman presents his personal theories of human
evolution, exemplified by the case of a modern woman sent back in time twenty thousand years or more; he mourns the loss of human evolutionary fitness and distortion of "
natural"
social relations which in his view occurred when
farming spread, and farmers squeezed hunter/gatherers to the ecological margins.
Time Slave features Norman's social philosophy of male-dominance (as also in the
Chronicles of Gor), and expresses an unexplained connection between female sexual subordination and the speeding up of the development of space travel.