By Wilson Tucker. I think I must have read this years ago; the matriarchal culture rings a bell. But only vaguely: I've forgotten all else. And it is pretty forgettable.The story premise is advancing glaciers; this is pop-sci from the 1970's after all; see The myth of the 1970s global cooling scientific consensus. Coupled to that we have Charles Fort style rains of frogs, fish and in this case bricks and then people; these are folded into the story as the results of some mysterious weapon that transports its target back in time.
I think the curious obsession with bricks that made up game hides, and indeed with eskers, must stem from some real experience; and as sometimes elsewhere, I think that a better book might have been made of those elements without the cifi admixture; but I wouldn't have read it of course.
No reason is given why the future society is matriarchal; no reason is given for them inventing weird back-into-the-past-guns, or preferring them to the arguably rather more useful normal guns we all know and love. And when one of these guns turns up in our time, we seem curiously uninterested in examining it.
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