The Twilight of Briareus
by Richard Cowper
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On the murky outskirts of our solar system, a lonely star has exploded, emitting monstrous doses of radiation . . . The year is 1983. The exploding star Briareus Delta, 132 light years away, provokes only mild interest from planet Earth. Suddenly, appalling tornadoes and storms ravage the cities and countryside, leaving death and desolation in their wake. Then mankind realises another terrifying side-effect - every adult in the world has been rendered infertile. Schoolteacher Calvin Johnson show more discovers he is one of the select few to have acquired strange psychic powers. Termed 'Zetas', these people experience mental flashes of the future - a future of freezing isolation, snow-swept landscapes and bleak, ice-bound cities.A second ice-age is imminent as man faces the ultimate horror . . . extinction. show lessTags
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Cowper is a very good English writer. He frequently sticks to the theme of a dystopia future in the British Isles, which often moves society to the dark ages. "Twilight of Briareus" is in that vane.
Well written but not my cup of tea. I just don't enjoy his stories. I have not given up on him. I will try "Kuldesak".
Well written but not my cup of tea. I just don't enjoy his stories. I have not given up on him. I will try "Kuldesak".
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- Original publication date
- 1974-01; 1974
- Epigraph
- "Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born.."
-Matthew Arnold
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse - Dedication
- For Rachel
and the children of the twilight - First words
- I recognized the place a good twenty minutes before we set eyes on it. The wind dropped soon after we left the abandoned village and, as the snow veils thinned, wisping away to disclose the low hills to the north, I paused. M... (show all)argaret who was following a pace or two behind me, looked up. "What is it, Cal?" -Chapter 1, Haven
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Perhaps that is all the answer that is required.
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 823.9
- Canonical LCC
- PZ4.M9849 PR6053 .O965
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- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian
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- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 13
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