Heroes and Villains Author:Angela Carter This story is set in the future, in an unnamed country peopled by survivors of a nuclear war. The land is now thickly wooded, and there are wild beasts, lions and tigers, descendants of those that escaped from zoos during the war. Presumably as a result of genetic mutations caused by radiation, the species Homo faber has split up, and there are ... more »now other genuses of man, such as Homo praedatrix and Homo silvestris.
Marianne, the main character of the book, belongs to the Professors, a group that lives in steel and concrete towers and retains prewar technological know-how. She becomes fascinated by the primitive people called the Barbarians, who live by marauding and pillage, and after her father's death she escapes from her own people to join them.« less
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