Davy (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Pangborn
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—post-holocaust
- Time of Work: The twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth century
- Setting: New England, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Azores
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Picaresque fiction, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Future, New England, Islands, Atlantic Ocean, Nuclear warfare or weapons
- Locales: Oceans, New England
The Plot
Davy’s coming-of-age story is not unique to science fiction, and Edgar Pangborn has no use for typical science- fictional devices such as spaceships and ray guns. Nevertheless, Davy is science fiction because of its vivid future world. In the late twentieth century—the “Old Time”—nuclear holocaust, plagues, and increases in world temperature and ocean levels destroyed human civilization. After about a hundred years, in the vast wilderness of what once was New England, a new civilization began to grow, a collection of small, bellicose countries...
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