(? - ) Australian author and IT consultant whose novels are all marketed as fantasy. This accurately describes her debut Demon Child trilogy beginning with Medalon (2000). However, the Second Sons trilogy – comprising The Lion of Senet (2002), Eye of the Labyrinth (2003) and Lord of the Shadows (2003) is set on what is evidently a planetary colony, with a Planetary Romance ambience. As in Anne McCaffrey's Pern, the medievalistic society has forgotten its Earthly origins. Fantastic elements are confined to mildly exotic Drugs and a quirk of local Astronomy whereby one of the two Suns regularly appears to vanish for a long interval, bringing a hardship-laden "Age of Shadows". The scientific actuality is deliberately obscured by a cynical fake Religion which prescribes orgies (> Sex) and sacrifices. For the young hero, the key to enlightenment and Conceptual Breakthrough is his talent for Mathematics, although the narrative emphasis is on tortuous Politics. [DRL]
Jennifer Fallon
born Melbourne, Victoria: 1959
died
works (sf)
- The Lion of Senet
(Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: HarperCollinsAustralia Voyager, 2002) [Second Sons: pb/Stephanie Pui-Mun Law] - Eye of the Labyrinth (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: HarperCollinsAustralia Voyager, 2003) [Second Sons: pb/Stephanie Pui-Mun Law]
- Lord of the Shadows (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: HarperCollinsAustralia Voyager, 2003) [Second Sons: pb/Stephanie Pui-Mun Law]
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