Bøger af Jeremy Balfour

Enter these pages and you will find the unique!This is genre-defying science-fiction!You will meet unforgettable characters through a spectrum of adventures!This work gives a wholly original definition for science-fiction, and indeed a brand new form for the short story! "What do readers most want? Entertainment that is new, different, and exciting, and that defies the imagination with unique plot twists, unforgettable characters, and original formats. In Beauty Fierce as Stars and Other Science-fiction Tales of Mystery and Intrigue we find this and more! This present volume includes, among other genre-defying turns, a whole new format for the science-fiction short story: the inclusion in some tales of original poetry, enriching and driving the narrative. Come inside and discover what the science-fiction aficionado, the lover of the short, gripping read, and the general reading public have been missing!" - Jeremy Balfour

Set in a future far-removed from a global nuclear catastrophe and a past barely on record, small utopian enclaves exist peacefully whilst unknowingly surrounded by relentless chaotic realms dominated by ecological disasters and a population of bestial marauders. When a young, innocent monk falls in love with a rare half-wild survivor of the wastelands they must traverse seemingly endless desert and radioactive forests in flight from his doomed monastery triggered by the coming of the wild people. Through mutants, treacherous terrain and the results of radioactive gigantism, they're captured by a mysterious albino huntress, a trapper of wolves and bears with a hidden past - whilst a lone journeyer battles the wilderness on his own pursuit for a remote El Dorado; The City of Gold. This is a quest for survival against the odds. A humanistic story, a story of Us, and although futuristic, it is a fable for our time.