Oolite Bulletins

Gimi wrote:

Go for it EV. I'm not in any way expecting this one to remain unanswered until I get home.

Okay... I can't actually remember the gift, and I don't have the book on my shelf... but knowing S-A's penchant for black humour, I'd say it was a hat.

El Viejo wrote:

Okay... I can't actually remember the gift, and I don't have the book on my shelf... but knowing S-A's penchant for black humour, I'd say it was a hat.

He shoots, he scores! Over to you, EV ...

On a mostly unexplored frontier world earmarked for colonisation, a young human girl crashes her hang glider/microlite into the outback woods, and is badly injured.
Alone and unable to move, she is soon threatened by a ferocious indigenous predator.

Title and author of this short story, please.

Clue the first: another indigenous creature bravely attempts to protect the girl, but is critically injured by the much larger, more powerful predator.
This courageous would-be defender is a celery thief!

I have no idea what it is but I like it so far!

El Viejo wrote:

On a mostly unexplored frontier world earmarked for colonisation, a young human girl crashes her hang glider/microlite into the outback woods, and is badly injured.

Is she called Stephanie?

SandJ wrote:

Is she called Stephanie?

Indeed she is, S&J!

El Viejo wrote:

SandJ wrote:

Is she called Stephanie?

Indeed she is, S&J!

I have only skimmed a few chapters and read an abstract. I shall go and see if the library has any of this author's work.

I cannot claim to know the answer to the trivia question. I thought I knew, checked online and both discovered I was wrong and stumbled on what looked like the right answer.

From what I have seen so far, this book should be (and may well be) part of a successful series.

And that author is...?

SandJ wrote:

I shall go and see if the library has any of this author's work.

<pictures S&J running down to the local library>

Still waiting...

<glances at the clock... tuts>

DaddyHoggy wrote:

And that author is...?

... alive, American and fairly prolific.

I'm saying nothing more since I found the answer by accident.

SandJ wrote:

I'm saying nothing more since I found the answer by accident.

Very well... you now know the girl's name is Stephanie, anyway.

SandJ wrote:

I'm saying nothing more since I found the answer by accident.

Go for it SandJ, take the shot: a hit is a hit, whether through accident or design. If we rely on people actually knowing the answers all the time we'll never get anywhere!