Book description
George Cringe is a middle-aged school-teacher, married with several
children. His marriage, while not a failure, is hardly a great success,
and he is somewhat drawn towards a fellow teacher, Jennifer Lawton, who
is much younger than he is. For relaxation, George has taken to creating
an endless SF saga set on the planet Agenor, where his hero and heroine,
Zil Bryn and Orgypp, face various problems, their current one involving
an outbreak of psychedelic mushrooms.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the galaxy, on the planet Chnas, life
Zil Bryn and his wife Orgypp. Bryn is currently composing a long weird
narrative called Shorge Gringe's Pilgrimage
, set on a strange world called Urth... 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.
