Then Beggars Could Ride

by Ray Faraday Nelson, Kelly Freas

For most of his life, Newton McClintok had lived in the American flapper era. He might have been an ancient Roman or a Victorian Englishman He could have his life in any time or place he chose—or at least, an almost perfect replica of it.

Cover art by Kelly Freas.

Genres: Science Fiction

190 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Aka Jeffrey Lord (house pseudonym)

Radell Faraday "Ray" Nelson is an American science fiction author and cartoonist most famous for his 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning", which was later used by John Carpenter as the basis for his 1988 film They Live.