Book description
Tom Jones is naive, impressionable and very, very willing. His chief
talent is conversing with dolphins in the Aquatic Mammals Division of
HMS Profundis, a gargantuan submarine destined to roam the ocean depths
for a century following the nuclear holocaust. Years pass and mad
captain succeeds mad captain,. Eventually the ship falls under the
command of one Admiral Prood, a kind, understanding man who finally
comes to a startling conclusion. He is God the Father. The Almighty
Himself. And all he needs now is a son to sit at his right hand. Enter
the innocent Tom Jones 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.
