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{{Short description|Book by John Norman}}
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| name             = Time Slave
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| image            = File:TimeSlave.jpg
| caption          = First edition
| author           = [[John Norman]]
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| cover_artist     = Gino D'Achille 
| country          = United States
| language         = English
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| genre            = [[Historical fiction]], [[Soft science fiction|science fiction]]
| publisher        = [[DAW Books]]
| pub_date         = 1975
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| media_type       = Print ([[paperback]])
| pages            = 380
| isbn             = 978-0-7592-9778-4
| oclc             = 1942479 
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'''''Time Slave''''' is a 1975 hybrid of [[historical fiction]] and [[Soft science fiction|science fiction]] by [[John Norman]]. In this book, Norman presents his personal theories of human [[evolution]], exemplified by the case of a modern 20th century woman sent back in time 50,000 years or more; he mourns the loss of human evolutionary fitness and distortion of "[[Nature|natural]]" [[Society|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 his ''[[Gor]]'' series), and expresses an unexplained connection between female sexual subordination and the speeding up of the development of space travel.