Richard Cowper Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Twenty years have passed since the martyrdom of the Boy-piper at York, twenty years in which his legacy, the movement of Kinship, has challenged the tyranny of the Church Militant in Britain's seven island kingdoms. Now his namesake, Tom, bearing the Boy's own pipes and perhaps himself imbued with the spirit of the White Bird, is wandering Europe in company with the girl, Witchet. But disaster overtakes them and Tom, in a furry of vengeance, breaks his vow of Kinship. A terrible path lies before him, one that transcends his own world. As he travels it, Tom must come to understand the true nature of the wild White Bird, of The Bride of Time and her Child, and of the Song the Star Born sang.

They came to destroy! The treacherous Falcons, uniformed in the black leather tunics of the fanatic Secular Arm, descended on Corlay to burn and kill. Commanded by Lord Constant, ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, they were determined to crush the religious heresy of Kinship. But a new dream rose from the ashes... When four Kinsmen escaped the carnage of their beloved land, each helped to fulfill the miracle that had been foretold: the coming of the Child of the Bride of Time .....

Vier SF-Stories des glänzenden Satirikers unter den britischen Science Rction-Autoren - Erzählungen, die weit mehr sind als spannende Unterhaltung: Begeg­nungen mit überlegenen Rassen, die zu einem neuen Bewußtsein führen - mit einem Medium, das versucht, Einfluß auf einen Atomphysiker zu gewinnen - mit einem menschheitsverändernden Spiel, das aus dem All stammt - und mit dem Webstuhl des Schicksals in einem ver­steckten Tal des Mittleren Ostens..

Contents:Out There Where the Big Ships Go (1979) The Custodians (1975)Paradise Beach (1976)The Hertford Manuscript (1976)The Web of the Magi (1980)

On the eve of the fourth millenium, Earth is crawling out of a dark age under the sway of a powerful and repressive church when a magical child appears who promises a world of freedom and enlightenment