Surplus: A Novel - Softcover

SURPLUS, A NOVEL, by Sylvia Stevenson The surface was hard and the echo of her footfalls were as the sound of an army following, halting, stumbling but always close behind. She knew she would never again feel quite the same crushing loneliness. There went with her all those others who have been turned back from the gates of paradise on earth because their pass Ports are made out in a a strange, unknown language. The inventor who has brought forth a brain child that the world calls a monstrosity...who prefers those plans to any human infant. The explorer, who scorns ease, beauty, life itself, to scale a peak that is un-climbable. All the dreamers who prize their dream above reality...And the rebels who would rather go on kicking against the pricks to the bitter end, than settle down to the yoke. All these...went the same way as the girl who refused to marry because her deepest love had been given to another girl. Often the road to heaven on earth-which some call happiness, and some mirage-is a tangled pathway, broadening slowly as it winds along, till at last the haven is in sight. But now and again, there is no road at all. One step out of the thicket, and there are the white walls and golden turrets, so near that they dazzle you. So it was for Sally Wraith. She came out that June morning...expecting simplyu to give a message to a friend of Miss Landison's. And that morning she first met Averil.