Dragon Drive A Comedia Mundana

As birthrates continue to fall, the survival of Diablo Keep is dependent on its herd of Tyrannobos - fire-breathing, two-and-a-half story tall, omnivorous long-horned cattle.

After a nuclear disaster, the people of Diablo Keep, located in California's San Gabriel Mountains, work to survive long enough to eventually build a bridge to the stars and escape a dying Earth.

The people of Diablo Keep are falling into despair until Paul Royer returns from a strange encounter on the cliffs.

The drive begins today! After seeing Pat Wall off as he returns to Spkane, WA, Monty and Batrix Eisenstein go out to watch the drive begin, headed for Socorro, New Mexico. After saying goodbye to Leah Herzog and Paul Royer, who will head up the drive before the Eisensteins join it, they go back with Leroy, their son, who will be staying at the keep with Rachel and Bill Jamieson until the drive returns to Southern California. Deciding to take a walk into the desert north of Diablo Keep and back, they encounter old friends: a Szekely family and, later, Leo, a working gentleman who has often done admirable work at Diablo Keep. Finally the Eisensteins return to their suite, to be alone together for the very first honeymoon they've had in all their years of marriage, to come to know each other far more deeply than ever before.

The people of Diablo Keep prepare for a visit from the Governor of New California and Rich Ransdell.

Diablo Keep is getting ready for the Tyrannobos drive to Socorro, New Mexico. Patrick Henry Wall and his aides bid farewell to the Eisensteins and Diablo Keep, though Mr. Wall may visit the drive when it arrives in New Mexico. Old friends of the Eisensteins show up. Leroy goes to stay with the Jamiesons while the Eisensteins are on the drive. Monty and Batrix Eisenstein have their first honeymoon in their own suite, Bill Jamieson fielding anything important for them. This is the 2nd Edition, Revised, of this work.

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them; includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.