Davy

✍ Scribed by Edgar Pangborn

• Publisher: Ballantine Books, Inc
• Year: 1964
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 201 KB
• Edition: Old Earth Books (2004)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1882968301

✦ Synopsis

Hardcover, 287 pages
Published 1964
Old Earth Books (2004)
A post-apocalyptic science fiction novel; Pangborn's most acclaimed. Set in the Northeastern United States some centuries after an atomic war ended high-technology civilization. Davy comes of age in a pseudo-medieval society dominated by a Church that actively suppresses technology.
Davy is set in the far future of our world, in the fourth century after the collapse of what we describe as the twentieth-century civilisation. In a land turned upside-down and backwards by the results of scientific unwisdom, Davy and his fellow Ramblers are carefree outcasts, whose bawdy, joyous adventures among the dead ashes of Old-Time culture make a novel which has been hailed as "a frightening, ribald, poignant look at the imaginary future," as "this chilling and fascinating book," as "superb entertainment - unique," as "so unusual as the make it both refreshing and thought provoking."