After Such Knowledge · #2
The story of a lonely prophet of experimental science and a suspected sorcerer, Roger Bacon, who lived in the dark days of thirteenth century England, Paris and Rome. This historical novel is a powerful, thoughtful and entirely enthralling reconstruction of Bacon's long life and intellectual struggle to free his time from sterile scholasticism.
James Benjamin Blish (1921–1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen name William Atheling Jr. Picture: Gravestone of James Blish, Holywell Cemetery, Oxford, England.
