Book description
In the 24th Century, mankind lives in Utopia. Everyone is happy, apart
from one man. 'A misfit, a throwback, a genuine freak' is how eighteen
year old Bard (with typical eighteen year old romanticism) describes
himself. 'The Last Romantic' was full of bravado, for in the perfect
society individualism was not encouraged, and the threat of
'rehabilitation' was ever present. But Bard had a plan - he would enter
the Caves of Sleep until he was twenty-one, his own man without let or
hindrance, and in control of a fairly large fortune. But even in Utopia,
plans have a way of going awry 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.
