Bøker av Edward Shanks

"Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later - on the eve of a new Dark Age! England has become a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Though he is at first disconcerted by the failure of his own era's smug doctrine of Progress, Tuft eventually decides that post-civilized life is simpler, more peaceful. That is, until northern English and Welsh tribes invade- at which point Tuft sets about reinventing weapons of mass destruction"--

Jeremy Tuft an investigator in physics is accidentally frozen by a suspended animation ray. He wakes up 150 years in the future. Not only have his fellow Englishmen forgotten all they used to know they don't care to relearn any of it.He finds this new technocratic era simpler and peaceful until the northern English and Welsh tribes band together to invade London.

Edward Richard Buxton Shanks (1892-1953) was known as the war poet of WWI, as this 1919 collection demonstrates. He was also an academic, journalist, literary critic, and science fiction writer.