The Twilight of Briareus by Richard Cowper, Gollancz
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on Feb 28th, 2026. Artwork published in
January 1974
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First-edition jacket for The Twilight of Briareus, featuring Gary Gillot’s Embrionic Triline for the title. John Middleton Murry Jr. (1926–2002) wrote the science-fiction novel under his pseudonym Richard Cowper. From Wikipedia:
According to Cowper, he wrote the book almost immediately after his novel Kuldesak was published successfully in 1970, and Twilight was “a more substantial work in every way”. His publishers rejected it, and despite his discouragement he started the novel Clone with the idea of satirising science-fiction people who did not like Twilight. His publishers accepted it and it sold well, after which they accepted Twilight, which sold even better.
