Burning Stones

By Steven Mills

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809562863
• ISBN13: 9780809562862
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cosmos Books
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

fire falling to earth shines bright

This is a really superb first novel by the author of a very good story in Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction (Tesseracts), a yearly Canadian sf/f anthology. It is very depressing, as not only has civilization collapsed, but most of the human race is 'devolving' due to a virus & much of the immediate area is being destroyed by a wildfire, but the writing is very very good. The book is a character study about a firefighter whose daughter is devolving, a woman trying to make it to post-apocalyptic Canada to find her parents, & a female mountie who is trying to keep some semblance of order & protection in her small town area of Canada, which has been abandoned by whatever government is left. The burning stones of the title are asteroids that the firefighter & his daughter always watch.

Great novel...

I was surprised to find this was a first novel, although the author is a published writer. The plot was very well done and the characters interested me from the first page. The story moved along at a brisk pace and I found I couldn't put the book down until I'd finished it. I was hoping for a sequel as soon as this first book ended. This is a great read for anyone, not just speculative fiction fans. Highly recommended!