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Engine Summer is a novel by American writer John Crowley, published in 1979 by Doubleday. It was nominated for the 1980 National Book Award for hardcover science fiction, [1] as well as both the British Fantasy and John W. Campbell Awards the same year. [2]
Sep 20, 2010 · Engine summer. In the dim future, several catastrophes have reduced Earth's population to a minimum and the survivors have divided themselves into separate and isolated cultures.
Jan 1, 1979 · Engine Summer (1979) was nominated for the 1980 American Book Award; it appears in David Pringle’s 100 Best Science Fiction Novels. In 1981 came Little, Big, which Ursula Le Guin described as a book that “all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.”
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Engine Summer follows the charming and inquisitive Rush as he grows up in his enclave of ‘True Speakers,’ one of the few groups of humanity left after an apocalypse has destroyed most of civilization.
Engine Summer is a novel by American writer John Crowley, published in 1979 by Doubleday. It was nominated for the 1980 National Book Award for hardcover science fiction, as well as both the British Fantasy and John W. Campbell Awards the same year.
In a post-apocalyptic future, a young man named Rush That Speaks lives in a pastoral community that has reverted to a pre-industrial state following the collapse of advanced civilization.
Jan 10, 2013 · Engine Summer. In the drowsy tranquility of Little Belaire, the Truthful Speakers lead lives of peaceful self-sufficiency ignoring the depopulated wilderness beyond their...
