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\"Andrew<\/a>
Andrew Irvine (8 April 1902 \u2013 8 June 1924)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This guest story in the 200 words\/200 days series\u00a0is brought to you by the inimitable, the awesome, the awe-inspiring Dr Sean Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m sure you already know who Sean is, but just in case you haven’t had the pleasure, Sean is a #1 New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of over forty award-winning novels, one hundred short stories, and the odd odd poem. He lives in Adelaide and\u00a0is currently virtual writer in residence<\/a> at Inside a Dog.<\/p>\n

His most recent novel\u00a0is Crash<\/a>\u00a0(aka Crashland in the UK), the sequel to Twinmaker<\/em>. A great starred review of Twinmaker<\/em>, featured in Booklist <\/em>had this to say about this wonderful series:<\/p>\n

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In the masterful hands of Williams, the technology, which has eerie parallels to contemporary life, provides a solid platform for great storytelling, and teens will revel in the drama, Clair\u2019s tenacity, and the memorable characters who discover that their utopia isn\u2019t all it\u2019s cracked up to be.<\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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The cliff face is icy and black, and Andrew Irvine is falling, albeit slowly. He can no longer feel his fingers, but he knows that gravity hasn\u2019t completely seized him yet. If it had, he would already be dead–like poor George, who had to be cut free, the first Englishman to stand on the summit just weight to be discarded lest he bring Sandy down too.<\/p>\n

The so-called ‘holy’ mountain has claimed them both now.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on, Sandy,\u201d he tells the wind. It won\u2019t do to give in. What would Lyn think? The letter in which she wrote so powerfully about the importance of wishes is tucked under his Gabardine. He wishes he could read it now, but it\u2019s too dark and his hands . . . the slow business of falling . . .<\/p>\n

Golden light strikes his face, startling him out of a warm fog. Has one of the others come? Charles, perhaps? Good old Charles.<\/p>\n

But the two lamps look like nothing so much as those of a Railless trolleybus, and the Himalayan cliff face a road in England, against which he is spreadeagled like a man already dead.<\/p>\n

Andrew Irvine, this Empire\u2019s son, lets go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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