S.F. Masterworks Engine Summer - John Crowley (Paperback) 10-01-2013 Short-listed for John W Campbell Award 1980 (UK) and British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1981 (UK).

In the drowsy tranquility of Little Belaire, the Truthful Speakers lead lives of peaceful self-sufficiency ignoring the depopulated wilderness beyond their narrow borders. It is a society untouched by pain or violence and the self-destroying 'Angels' of the past are barely remembered. But when Rush That Speaks leaves his home on a pilgrimage of self-enlightenment, he finds a landscape haunted by myths and memories. The overgrown ruins reflect a world outside that is stranger than his people ever dreamed ...