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Foyle, Naomi

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(?   -    ) UK editor, poet and author whose first novel, Seoul Survivors (2013), is a Near Future thriller set just before a meteor known as Lucifer's Hammer threatens to devastate the planet, as in Larry Niven's and Jerry Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer (1977), about a Comet striking Earth. A plot to use Genetic Engineering to save some humans has side-effects. The Young Adult Gaia Chronicles sequence beginning with Astra (2014) interestingly describes an isolated Polder [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] which provides a way of life reverent of Gaia but within what turns out to be a Keep-like environment, smaller and more coercive than the dream. Once (inevitably) exiled, and (surprisingly) subject to Memory Edit, the young protagonist begins to cope in a world ravaged by Ecological degradation and Climate Change. [JC]

Naomi Foyle

born London

works

series

Gaia Chronicles

  • Astra (London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014) [Gaia Chronicles: pb/]
  • Rook Song (London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2015) [Gaia Chronicles: pb/]
  • The Blood of the Hoopoe (London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2016) [Gaia Chronicles: pb/]
  • Stained Light (London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2018) [Gaia Chronicles: pb/]

individual titles

  • Seoul Survivors (London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2013) [hb/Andy Vella]
    • Seoul Survivors (London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014) [rev of the above: text corrected: pb/velladesign.com]

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