King Creature Come

The Earth of the future is an impotent planet, inhabited by a small number of Persons who command as their servants the several thousand Creatures living outside the confines of their atmospherically controlled city. Persons despise Creatures as inferior beings but Townsend reiterates an old truth - the majority who are suppressed by an unsympathetic or unobservant minority will, in time, overthrow their oppressors. Vector and Harmony, unable to conform to a rule which forbids them to marry, decide to go 'outside'. They find the Creatures as sensitive as themselves and their living conditions appalling. They determine to redress the balance and find an ally in Helix, their tutor and confidante, a powerful political figure who senses the imminent rebellion of the Creatures and salvages from it some hope of a better future. A deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking book which could be profitably linked with Animal Farm and Jan Mark's The Ennead.