Stone & Sun
Stone and Sun by Graham Edwards sends Jonah and Archan on a headlong race to the very top of Stone’s mighty wall. A thousand worlds must be crossed before the summit is reached … and in this race there is no second prize.
Newest passengers on the Bark’s greatest voyage yet are the mysterious Tom Coyote, flung to Stone from the erupting Mount St Helens in 1980 and, more mysterious still, the diminutive Mister Ren, who claims to have created immortality. In the glare of its guardian sun, the fate of Stone – and all the worlds on which it depends – hangs by a thread.
Jonah must reach deep into the strands of memory to turn the flow of time’s river to his advantage. But tinkering with history, as he has already discovered, is a dangerous game …
- “This is not another collection of fantasy clichés, but something rich and strange” – LineOne
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The story behind Stone & Sun
I remember vividly the eruption of Mount St Helens in 1980. I was fifteen years old and couldn’t believe something so Biblical could really happen. So it was inevitable I’d try to write the event into a book sooner or later. Even better, using the event allowed me to introduce my Victorian explorer Jonah Lightfoot to a character from the late twentieth century – a culture clash I couldn’t resist.
Jonah meddles with time in quite a big way in Stone & Sea but only in this final book of the trilogy do the full implications of his earlier actions become clear. I love the labyrinthine possibilities of time-travel and I wasn’t about to wrap up this story without having some serious fun with it.
Stone & Sun begins with the following ‘quotation’:
Come with me now
Hold on tight
Trust me
I won’t let go
Actually it isn’t a quotation at all, but my message to the reader. When I was editing the manuscript, I realised I’d put in some fairly dizzying shifts of viewpoint and twists of plot. I went back, smoothed things out where necessary and made sure it really did hang together. All the same, I felt my readers needed a little reassurance up front.
