Book description
On the Eve of the Fourth Millennium a slowly-building civilization,
struggling out of the rubble of the Drowning, was crushed beneath the
sceptre of a powerful and repressive Church. But on the Eve of the
Fourth Millennium the sound of a magical pipe was heard, and the air was
filled with songs of freedom and enlightenment. And on the Eve of the
Fourth Millennium the Boy appeared, bringing the gift of sacrilege, a
harbinger of the future, heralding the arrival of the White Bird of
Dawning. It is the coming of a New Age. A glorious future bearing the
presents of the past! Richard Cowper (1926 - 2002) Born John Middleton
Murry, Jnr, the son of writer John Middleton Murry, Richard Cowper was
the pseudonym under which most of his science fiction was published (he
wrote four novels under the name 'Colin Murry'). He served in the Royal
Navy during the Second World War, although he as lucky enough not to see
combat. After the war, he read Anglo-Saxon and English at Oxford. His
works were shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, British Fantasy and Locus
Awards. He died in 2002, four weeks after the death of his wife.
