The People of the Ruins

Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising, a physicist and war veteran awakens 150 years later--on the eve of a new Dark Age! In One of the most critically acclaimed and popular post-war stories of its day, A satire of Wellsian techno-utopian novels, Edward Shanks (1892-1953) was an English author, poet, critic, and journalist. He was the editor of

List of contents

Series Foreword
Joshua Glenn
Introduction: A Modernist Apocalypse
Paul March-Russell
1. Trouble
2. The Dead Rat
3. A World Grown Strange
4. Discoveries
5. The Speaker
6. The Guns
7. The Lady Eva
8. Declaration of War
9. Marching Out
10. The Battle
11. Triumph
12. New Clouds
13. The Fields of Windsor
14. Chaos
15. Flight
16. The Roman Road

About the author

Edward Shanks (1892-1953) was an English author, poet, critic, and journalist. He was the editor of Granta just before serving in World War I and is perhaps best remembered today as a war poet. The People of the Ruins is his only science fiction novel.

Product details

• Authors: Paul March-Russell, March-Russell Paul, Edward Shanks
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2024
• EAN: 9780262549073
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54907-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 200 mm x 24 mm
• Series: MIT Press / Radium Age
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Science Fiction, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Science Fiction / Time Travel, FICTION / Science Fiction / Military, Science fiction: military