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Issued: December 1990 Gollancz VGSF Classics London ISBN 0575041811 Paperback Cover illustration by Fred Gambino 240 pages Notes A fixup novel based on:
The old world has gone, but its shell remains in place. One day soon, there will come a breath of wind, a new messiah, the shell will crumble, and the kids will run streaming, screaming, barefoot in the head, through lush imaginary meadows. What a time to be young! After the PCA bombs dropped with their hallucinatory load, Europe became a disintegrating world, populated by a traumatised people with a new catalogue of confusing and contradictory images. In this drug-distorted nightmare Colin Charteris finds himself proclaimed a saviour and a hero, leading a crusade he neither understands nor can hope to win, a cause that carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction . . .
"Mirrors fantastically the violence and destruction of our times . . . an extraordinary book – a dark, sombre, sustained vision . . . dense and powerful"
"An extremely urgent criticism of life in the present"
"Extraordinarily inventive"
"The kind of breakthrough which crushes criticism with admiration" |
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