Phoenix Author:Richard Cowper " A misfit, a throwback, a genuine freak. The Last Romantic"- thus the eighteen-year old Bard, with typical eighteen-year-old romanticism, described himself and his attitude toward the 24th Century Utopia in whic he lived. — 'The Last Romantic' was full of bravado, for in the perfect society individualism was not encouraged, and... more » the threat of 'rehabilitation' was ever present. But Bard had a plan - he would enter the Caves of Sleep until he was twenty-one, his own man without let or hindrance, and in control of a fairly large fortune. But even in Utopia, plans have a way of going awry.« less