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The Overman Culture

"Michael had a good memory. He could remember things significant & insignificant. He remembered — if hazily — when he was young enough to be fed milk only. He remembered the odd child who disappeared from playschool & he remembered the other child who fell (or was pushed?) from the high window & lay all smashed & crumpled on the ground, but not bleeding & he remembered how he'd wanted to know about words, how you could keep them, how you could fix them — perhaps like a drawing — forever."

"Time seems to have run amok. London is governed by Queen Victoria & Winston Churchill, populated by young people called 'fragiles' & others called 'drybones' because they don't bleed. The young fragiles come to realize that they're the last of their kind — whatever kind that might be.

Thus is established the setting for a brilliant novel of adventure that speaks to the largest questions facing young people everywhere — questions of identity, of purpose in life & of responsibility for themselves & their kind."

— Book Club Edition

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 191
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780425023365
  • Genres
  • fiction, fantasy
  • Release date
  • 1973