Geoff Nelder

About

Geoff Nelder, one wife, 2 kids, lives in rural England within easy cycle rides of the Welsh mountains. One humorous thriller novel, Escaping Reality has been published, and his recent novel is a science fiction mystery, Exit, Pursued by Bee, is published by Double Dragon Publishing. Other SF/F novels are hungry to be published following a minor deluge of humour, crime and horror short stories. Geoff is an editor for Adventure Books of Seattle & co-editor of Escape Velocity magazine.

A Shadow in Yucatan

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A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.

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Blog critics review

🔗 http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-exit-pursued-by-a/

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blog talk radio on Exit

🔗 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/compulsivereader/2008/12/08/Interview-with-Geoff-Nelder%20

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review of Exit

🔗 http://www.bibliophilia.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=854

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Reviews

From best selling sf author of the Arabesk Mysteries & others - BSFA Best Novel winner and shortlisted Arthur C Clarke Award - Jon Courtenay Grimwood: "'Geoff Nelder inhabits science fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes..."

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