The Road to Corlay

The Road to Corlay

Richard Cowper

#1669 of 8,085 books · #314 in Fantasy

Shortlisted for the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1979), the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1980), and the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (August Derleth Award) (1979).

On the Eve of the Fourth Millennium a slowly-building civilization, struggling out of the rubble of the Drowning, was crushed beneath the sceptre of a powerful and repressive Church. But on the Eve of the Fourth Millennium the sound of a magical pipe was heard, and the air was filled with songs of freedom and enlightenment. And on the Eve of the Fourth Millennium the Boy appeared, bringing the gift of sacrilege, a harbinger of the future, heralding the arrival of the White Bird of Dawning. It is the coming of a New Age. A glorious future bearing the presents of the past!