Richard Cowper Ordre des livres (chronologique)

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 Millennium a slowly-building civilization, struggling out of the rubble of the Drowning, was crushed beneath the sceptor of a powerful and repressive Church. But on the Eve of the Fourth Millennium the sound of a magical pipe was heard, and the air was filled with songs of freedom and enlightenment. And on the Eve of the Fourth Millennium the Boy appeared, bringing the gift of sacrilege, a harbinger of the future, heralding the arrival of the White Bird of Dawning. It is the coming of a New Age. A glorious future bearing the presents of the past! Contents: Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1976) The Road to Corlay (1978) novel