Softcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st pbk, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 329 pages. Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising, a physicist and war veteran awakens 150 years later--on the eve of a new Dark Age. Edward Shanks (1892-1953) was an English author, poet, critic, and journalist. He was the editor of Granta just before serving in World War I and is perhaps best remembered today as a war poet. The People of the Ruins is his only science fiction novel. Clean copy.