Book description
It lay in the grass, tiny and white and burning. He stooped, put out
his fingers. And then there was nothing. Nothing but darkness and
oblivion. A split second demolition of the world of Richard Avery. From
a damp February afternoon in Kensington Gardens, Avery is precipitated
into a world of apparent unreason. A world in which his intelligence is
tested by computer, and which he is finally left on a strange tropical
island with three companions, and a strong human desire to survive. But
then the mystery deepens: for there are two moons in the sky, and the
rabbits have six legs, and there is a physically satisfying reason for
the entire situation. Edmund Cooper (1926 - 1982) Edmund Cooper was
born in Cheshire in 1926. He served in the Merchant navy towards the end
of the Second World War and trained as a teacher after its end. He began
to publish SF stories in 1951 and produced a considerable amount of
short fiction throughout the '50s, moving on, by the end of that decade,
to the novels for which he is chiefly remembered. His works displayed
perhaps a bleaker view of the future than many of his contemporaries',
frequently utilising post-apocalyptic settings. In addition to writing
novels, Edmund Cooper reviewed science fiction for the Sunday Times from
1967 until his death in 1982.
