Book description
The waters rose, and darkness was upon the earth. For a few decades
after the Twenty-Minute War and the Red Plague, there were those who
remembered the ways and pleasures of civilization, but soon the harsh
realities of life in the flooded seaboard of North America pushed the
survivors into a new Dark Age - an age of superstition and brutality,
but one of seeking and poetry as well. This is the world of Edgar
Pangborn's classic Davy, portrayed here over centuries of its change and
growth. Here are heretics, and harpers, crusaders and cowards, magicians
and mundane folk, in a stunning cycle of stories that have timeless
quality of legend. Edgar Pangborn (1909 - 1976) Edgar Pangborn was
born in New York City and pursued music studies at Harvard when just 15
years old. He went on to study at the New England Conservatory but did
not graduate from either course. He then turned his back on music,
focusing on writing. It was in the early 50s that his writing career
flourished, and he produced a string of highly regarded stories for the
likes of Galaxy, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Ellery
Queen's Mystery magazine. His work helped establish a new 'humanist'
school of science fiction, and he has been cited by Ursula Le Guin as
one of the authors who convinced her that it was possible to write
worthwhile, humanly emotional stories within science fiction and
fantasy. He died in New York in 1976.
