Watch the North Wind Rise (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Graves
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—utopia
- Time of Work: The distant future
- Setting: New Crete
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Utopian fiction
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, Future, Poetry or poets, Gods or goddesses, Rites or ceremonies, Utopias, Wind
- Locales: Mythical lands
The Plot
A poet of the post-World War II era, Edward Venn-Thomas, is called into the future by magicians of New Crete. New Crete is a harmonious, antimaterialistic, antitechnological society where women enjoy higher status than men and where the dominant forces are custom and the worship of the triune Goddess, who is Nymph, nurturing Mother, and withered Fate.
Questioned by New Cretans, Venn-Thomas criticizes the twentieth century for the hypocrisy and hectic pace of its scientifically and economically oriented society, as well as for the violence of the age. He is...
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