Midsummer Century
In the year 25,000 A.D.... When John Martels returned to consciousness he found himself the Delphic Oracle of a world far different from the Twentieth Century. Humanity had risen and fallen three times and was back once again in a semi-primitive state. He shared his oracular powers with a mind and a device left over from the last Rebirth... but the real problem was not rebuilding civilization, it was that another genus of creatures had arisen to claim inheritance of the world – the evolved, strangely intelligent birds, whose priority was the elimination of the world's former masters.
James Blish
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.