HEROES VILLAINS Author:Angela Carter Across a mysterious landscape of ruin and wilderness, in an overgrown atomic wasteland, small isolated outposts of civilized men-The Professors-are all that remain of human order in the world. Here crops are cultivated, books are still read, children are schooled. — But outside the walls of their fortress villages, wild beasts roam the forests, ... more »and the land is peopled by deformed subhuman creatures and savage, strangely costumed barbarians who raid and plunder.
Marianne belonged to the people of civilization and reason-untill the young barbarian Jewel took her for his own and carried her off into his world of animal virility and savage splendor...« less