The Road to Corlay

TitleThe Road to Corlay
Year for Search1978
Authors[Murry], [John Middleton] [Jr.](1926-2002)
Tertiary AuthorsCowper, Richard [pseud.]
Date Published1978
PublisherPocket Books
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

Authoritarian religious dystopia set in a post-catastrophe future with the beginnings of both a new Enlightenment and a reformed religion. First volume of a trilogy called The White Bird of Kinship; see also 1981 and 1982 Murry.

Additional Publishers

The "Prologue. Piper at the Gates of Dawn." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 50.3 (298) (March 1976): 4-51 is rpt. in the U.S. editions (11-73) (Book Club ed. 1-58), but not in the U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1978.

Pseudonym

Richard Cowper [pseud.]

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

The author (1926-2002) never used his legal name and was known as Colin Middleton Murry.

Full Text

1978 [Murry, John Middleton, Jr.] (1926-2002). The Road to Corlay. By Richard Cowper [pseud.]. New York: Pocket Books. The “Prologue. Piper at the Gates of Dawn.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 50.3 (298) (March 1976): 4-51 is rpt. in the U.S. editions (11-73) (Book Club ed. 1-58), but not in the U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1978.  The author never used his legal name and was known as Colin Middleton Murry. PSt

Authoritarian religious dystopia set in a post-catastrophe future with the beginnings of both a new Enlightenment and a reformed religion. First volume of a trilogy called The White Bird of Kinship; see also 1981 and 1982 Murry.