Helen Claire Gould

The Stallion (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

WHEN HUMANS DISCOVERED THARGOS IV, it seemed the perfect place for a colony of desert-dwelling tribes: an arid planet, deserted but for the native leafless grasses and trees - named Calibans for their squat, ugly appearance - and a few animals. Terran grass and plants grew there with little persuasion. So the colonists came, and built a settlement, and farmed crops.

But the colony was going under. Promised supplies and equipment had never arrived to help the colonists establish themselves on-planet. And the sandstorms had become worse and more frequent.

14-year-old Bashir didn't expect what happened when he went to help his father at the souk one day. First, a tale of horses living as a wild desert herd; then a vision of a beautiful white stallion; and then he learned that the trees were not at all what they seemed as he watched them thresh their limbs from his prayer mat...

"I enjoyed this...a very assured style...tidy prose...a sound piece of writing." - Graham Joyce.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Helen Claire Gould Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781739408220
• Artikelnr.: 72398956

Autorenporträt

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Helen Claire Gould has been writing since her teens, having read her first two Science Fiction novels at the age of nine. At the Peterborough SF Club, where she met her husband, she contributed to the club fanzine A Change of Zinery. After suffering some miscarriages in 1992 she began writing for therapeutic reasons, joining Orbiters (SF postal writing workshops) and setting up the Peterborough Science Fiction Writers' Group. She edited two small press collections of short fiction, Shadows on a Broken Wall and Mother Milk, Father Flywheel, organised a weekend workshop on writing for comics, and had book reviews published in the BSFA review magazine, Vector.

Returning to full-time education in 1995, Helen graduated in Geology and Planetary science in 2000, teaching Geology and Creative Writing evening classes, and editing further collections of short fiction by her Creative Writing students. In 2013 she organised and ran a series of writers' workshops for the Peterborough Arts Festival.

Floodtide was Helen's first published novel, and was set in her own fictional universe. The Stallion is an ecological fantasy loosely based in that universe. She... is a collection of original short stories, not based in that universe, with a background theme of fertility and motherhood.