Gate To Empyrean: The Secret Portal to Strange, Fantastic Worlds

by Stephen Carroll

Overview

A Children's first Science Fiction novel, where four siblings discover an ancient means to instantly travel to other worlds. Their adventures include encounters with giant, but intelligent insect-like creatures, horrific monsters, advanced civilisations, and crazy destructive robots. Their shared experiences bring them closer together than ever before as a family unit. The door is left open for further, future adventures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798765577431
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	06/06/2022
Edition description:	Second
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Stephen Carroll always harboured a dream to write a children’s science fiction novel and he says he dreams about space and other worlds and peoples almost every night, even to this day.
As a child, he watched the first-ever episode of Dr. Who as it went to air in 1963, and ever since has been fascinated by the possibilities provided through Science Fiction.
He loved Thunderbirds as a young boy, and one of its predecessors, Fireball XL5. His favourite science fiction authors when younger consisted of Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Alan E. Nourse. All of these influenced him greatly as did C.S. Lewis with both the Narnia books and his allegorical novels such as Voyage to Venus.
Stephen intends to take these children on ever greater, more interesting, and fantastical journeys in the future.

Editorial Reviews

A rollicking good read that addresses important life themes as it celebrates the resourcefulness of children bent on adventure who can make their own decisions while getting themselves into and out of trouble.

email - Kim Dixon