Note: "MJA is best-known for her Time Trilogy ... which provides intensified interest because of the intricacy of its switches from time past to time future; its Scottish protagonists, in the 14th and a barbaric 21st century, fight to defend their native land." --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biog. entry by John Clute Several webpages quote a description of The Mists of Time that begins "In the twenty-second century in a land that was once Scotland ..." and a Goodreads description begins, "In the year 2179 Lara Avara discovers that she has the gift of 'sight'--she can walk through the places where the borders of time overlap and make contact with people from other eras."