Noren knew that his world was not as it should be—it was wrong that only the Scholars and Technicians could use metal and Machines. It was wrong that only they had access to the kn...
SUMMARY: The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to...
ReviewIt's a wildly leftist novel of love, war and death; Townsend Warner chucks thelot into her simmering story, but it remains skilfully crafted. Brilliantlyentertaining and ...
For a very long period of time, Dr. David Klatzow was the only independent forensic investigator in South Africa. During the apartheid years, a time of police brutality and state c...
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893–1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel...
With genetic engineering promising salvation for the people on their hostile planet, the Scholar Noren finds he faces more problems than overcoming the taboo on genetic research.
Review“Engdahl has carefully worked out the social structure and ecology of a scientific society that has been transferred to a planet without metals. What’s more, she wrestles wit...