Engine Summer

John Crowley author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Orion Publishing Co

Published:10th Jan '13

Should be back in stock very soon

Engine Summer cover

A powerfully moving quest for truth in a post-apocalyptic landscape from the WORLD FANTASY AWARD-winning author of LITTLE, BIG.

In the drowsy tranquility of Little Belaire, the Truthful Speakers lead lives of peaceful self-sufficiency ignoring the depopulated wilderness beyond their narrow borders. It is a society untouched by pain or violence and the self-destroying 'Angels' of the past are barely remembered. But when Rush That Speaks leaves his home on a pilgrimage of self-enlightenment, he finds a landscape haunted by myths and memories. The overgrown ruins reflect a world outside that is stranger than his people ever dreamed ...

  • Short-listed for John W Campbell Award 1980 (UK)
  • Short-listed for British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1981 (UK)

ISBN: 9780575082816

Dimensions: 200mm x 135mm x 19mm

Weight: 224g

256 pages