Irish rose

by Patrick Wyatt

Patrick Wyatt's fantasy of the future is in the John Wyndham genre, where the story is of the human race rather than of the potential horrors of technology. After the Great Fall, there has sprung up in England a newly primitive society, where only scattered remnants of the Golden Age are accessible to people living in minutely organized city states. Men, mostly coffee-coloured, are masters or slaves, women are merely breeders, reduced to a status where to connect love or learning with a woman is equally heretical. The Irish Rose is a young girl whose fair-skinned beauty makes her a genetic wonder and whose secretly acquired education threatens the heirarchical society which strives to keep her in place.

Genres: Science Fiction

213 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

Reviews

[Rick_Qualie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Interesting ideas, good fun to read the first part. Then it all goes horribly wrong with the story, the plot and the people. Last chapters are really bad. It is a pity, could have been so much better if the author sticked to telling the story and not into promoting his religious beliefs.