https://theoviebooks.wordpress.com/ "Once, Ryan knew, dogs had run with man, not from him...." Ryan is a member of a tribe of post-apocalyptic primitives. Each night, the tribe chants about how their ancestors were "the putrefiers of the lakes and the rivers; the consumers, the destroyers, the murderers of the living land; the selfish, the obese, the great collectors..." Robert Franklin Young, born June 8th, 1915 and died June 22nd, 1986. He was an American science fiction writer born in Silver Creek, New York. Except for the three and a half years he served in the Pacific Theatre during World War II, he spent most of his life in New York State. He owned a property on Lake Erie. First published 1957 Ovi Publishing December 2023