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Every year since he was five Andrew has been forced to spend the summer at his Aunt Jenna’s farm. This year he’s about to discover his family is anything but normal, and that he has an important duty. Is he ready for such a weighty responsibility? Does he even believe any of this is happening to him? . . .
Weren’t you paying attention? The monsters live here. They just help us enter the world of folly by being so weird. We look at them and think, ‘well, if that can exist then anything can exist,’ and we’re there, in the world of folly. A serial about the fictional town of Ascalon, Ohio, set in the present. The story . . .
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Stories with a nice dose of the unusual: A demon who rebels against Lucifer; a girl whose family adopts a robot; childhood friends who reunite on board a space elevator. Science fiction and fantasy, with occasional dips-of-the-toe into other genres. The main blog also includes drawings and comments on writing. . . .
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What happens when a spoiled rich kid from a hi-tech society finds himself alone, penniless, and friendless on a primitive planet where they don’t even speak his language? . . .
No Forwarding Address is quite a different novel, a true coming-of-age story.
Edward, son of rich upper-class parents, ends up shipwrecked on a backwater planet reminiscent of Earth in the Middle Ages. He is taken in by a peasant family and must learn to adapt to a new culture, religion, and [more . . .]
No Fowarding Address tells us the story of Edward, a spoiled rich kid who finds himself suddenly immersed in a culture totally foreign to his own. In the first 36 chapters, we see how we copes with the dislocation and the language barrier and grows to adopt the mores of his adopted folk. The writing is clean and accessible, [more . . .]