In 1982 John Crowley's LITTLE, BIG won the World Fantasy Award for the best novel of the year. With that accolade one of the genres great new talents was at last recognised. This, the first hardback publication of BEASTS in the UK, brings to the public's attention Crowley's excellent second novel and illustrates that Crowley has been a major talent from the outset.

In a near future America society has collapsed and fragmented into warring nation states. Amidst the increasing chaos a new organisation, USE, has sprung up, determined to reconstruct Man's fragile world. Yet from out of the chaos have come the leos, part Man, part Lion, the product of Man's genetic engineering. BEASTS is the story of the leo, Painter, a king of beasts and men, a new, marvellous creature who USE would have destroyed, and of Reynard, part Fox, part Man, servant of Painter. John Crowley won widespread critical acclaim for his first novel. THE DEEP and for ENGINE SUMMER. Like those works, BEASTS is a novel that will appeal to science fiction fans and lovers of good literature alike.

ISBN: 0 86391 026 2
184pp Hardback
Our RRP £8.95