Bøger af Jonathan Standing

Picture yourself in a future shared with real-life Olympians and engineered humans designed to order... ...An epic battle has torn apart the fabric of civilization. Centuries have come and gone. The scattered remnants of mankind struggle to rebuild. Yet the work of the ancient genemasters remains. As worlds once thought lost are re-discovered, they are found to be inhabited with the descendents of these superior creations. These genetically altered humans are seen as a threat to the new colonists. Orion is a specially trained hunter whose job it is to rid these worlds of the abominations. Little does he know that soon his own battle will wage.

Picture yourself in a future shared with real-life Olympians and engineered humans designed to order... What do you do when: You build worlds; you're an entertainment mogul; and you are fascinated by ancient Greek mythology? Answer: You make an entire planet your stage set. Hellas is an engineered world created by the wealthy terraformer Panagopoulos and his hallowed team of genemasters. Complete with centaurs, satyrs, heroes, gods, goddesses-and even a real-life mermaid, this is a story that focuses on the life of the Olympian genotype Apollo. What do you do when the project starts to spiral out of control? Do you pull the plug? Send in the warships? Now-imagine that your name is Apollo. You are beginning to find out that things are not as they appear in a world where you are a god. Meanwhile, in creating the Olympians, it is becoming evident to their makers that they may have achieved more than they ever planned...

She knows that she was made in a lab. She knows that she was made special. But what has been kept hidden from her is why. Raised in isolation by the aging genemaster Dr Jacobs, there comes a time when she is forced to leave behind all that she's ever known. The world outside frightens her, but what frightens her more is the truth she learns about herself.

Description: An orphan for sixteen years, Raven is forced to leave behind both her home and the only people she knows when a terrible secret is tragically exposed: She is not like other girls. A fire rages inside her to find out who her mysterious parents were; and not only who, but what she really is. Interrupted by a series of wild adventures, her journey takes her far from home and far from everything that she has ever known. Little does she know just how far this journey will take her. Far more astonishing, is what she learns about herself along the way.

A humorous and breathtakingly inventive tale - about fairy tale trolls and learning to embrace difference - from the gifted Jonathan Standing, winner of the 2020 English 4-11 Picture Book Award (Fiction 7-11 category).