Themes Ĭritical opinion differs about whether the three novellas are bound by a common theme other than their setting in the deep past. This was Golding's first publication since The Pyramid in 1967 and his last until Darkness Visible in 1979, which he started to write in 1975 after a long period of "creative hibernation", the beginning of which is described in a journal he started at the time, under the heading 'History of a Crisis'. "Envoy Extraordinary" became a play called The Brass Butterfly which was performed first in Oxford and later in London and New York. A draft of "The Scorpion God" had been written but abandoned in 1964, "Clonk Clonk" was newly written for the book, and "Envoy Extraordinary" had been published before, in 1956. They are all set in the distant past: "The Scorpion God" in Ancient Egypt, "Clonk Clonk" in pre-historic Africa, and "Envoy Extraordinary" in Ancient Rome. The Scorpion God is a collection of three novellas by William Golding published in 1971.
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