Earthfasts (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: William Mayne
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—time travel
- Time of Work: The early 1960s
- Setting: North Yorkshire, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy, Arthurian romance
- Subjects: 1960’s, England or English people, Time travel
- Locales: Yorkshire, England
The Plot
The book is divided into four parts: “This Aye Night,” “Standing Stones,” “On Hare Trod,” and “Fire and Fleet and Candlelight.” The central characters are two fifteen-year-old boys: David Wix, whose father is a doctor, and Keith Heseltine, whose father is a lawyer. They live in the small town of Garebrough in the Yorkshire Dales of northern England.
In the first part, they discover, in late summer, movement of the earth in a field outside town. From it emerges a red-coated drummer boy, Nelly Jack John, who had been, he claimed, in a garrison...
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