Robert Cameron is a retired professor of evolutionary biology, living in Sheffield. His professional expertise relates to slugs and snails, and studying these have taken him around the world. While he has written many scientific papers and books, his interests in dystopian fiction, SF and fantasy have seduced him into his own, distinctive pattern of storytelling.
In an England shattered almost beyond repair by the Great Catastrophe and the war that followed, Mark Norman is brought up in one of a few fertile Grounds, Grounds surrounded by land that is, at best, liable to cause sterility and, at worst, to be lethal to all who venture into it. His doubts about ...
