Neil Hetzner

The Crystal Maker (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Astrid Berensen, a highly intelligent and volatile teen, is good at solving problems. Using her intelligence and dogged determination, she has learned how to make replicas of crystals that were used in 1300 BC to move a colony of persecuted worshippers from Egypt to the world of Kemet.

Astrid is also very good at creating problems. Her grief from her mother's disappearance, her periodic rages, and her guilt over her twin sister's death have estranged her from her father and kept her from making friends.

Ignoring everything around her, Astrid concentrates on making crystals in a make-shift lab at the Peltdown Institute, a residential school for savants and gifted Asperger autists. Fearing that her life is in danger from the success she is beginning to achieve with the crystals, but also with the hope she may find her mother and a world more likely to accept her, Astrid and her unwelcome traveling companion, Raymond, a be-smitten, whiny chess-obsessed fellow student run away. Avoiding capture from some mysterious assailants, they use Astrid's crystals to transport themselves to the arid world of Kemet. After crossing the Dustlands, they arrive in Amarna, an ancient city gone to ruin. There they find that Astrid's mother in prison and their dream of finding a better world has turned into a nightmare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Neil Hetzner
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781734108903
• Artikelnr.: 70044936

Autorenporträt

Neil (aka C.N.) Hetzner is married, has two children, and lives a mile from the edge of the continent in Rhode Island. Since his inauspicious birth in Indiana in 1948 he has worked as a cook, millwright, newspaper columnist, business professor, vacuumist, printer's assistant, landscaper, railroader, caterer, factory worker, consulting editor, and, currently, real estate agent.

In addition to working, which he likes a lot, and writing, which he likes even more, he enjoys reading, weaving, cooking, and intrepidly screwing up house repairs.

His writing runs the gamut from young adult futurism to stories about the intricacies of families; however, if there is a theme that links his writing, it is the complicated and miraculous mathematics of mercy.