When war breaks out in Europe -- modern, aerial war whose tactics
include displacing entire populations -- British civilization collapses
overnight. The ironically named Theodore Savage, an educated and idle
civil servant, must learn to survive by his wits in a new Britain... one
where science and technology swiftly come to be regarded with
superstitious awe and terror.
The book -- by a women's rights activist often remembered today for her
polemical plays, tracts and treatises -- was first published in 1922.