An Apology for Rain

by Jean Mark Gawron

First novel by the computational linguist, Jean Mark Gawron. In a future America a civil war rages, one with no cause, few battles and a big bomb. A young woman with an untested power sets out to find her brother, legendary leader in the strange war. Dust jacket illustration by Margo Herr.

Genres: Science Fiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is another book purchased for its price without regard to its content.

The author, Jean Mark Gawron, is in fact an academic in computational linguistics who has worked for SRI but has long dabbled in science fiction. He is considered an expert on Samuel Delany, one of the genre's great stylists, and his novel Dahlgren.