The Fearance

It is the year 2043. A space shuttle crash-lands on Tycho, the clone planet of Mother Earth. Rib Meskitoe - one of the few survivors of Watershed - steps out to start a new life in the frontier town of Stonyville, where cowpokes and cowgirls work hard and play hard, all under the stern stewardship of Marshall Amps.Life on Tycho is strictly low-tech, on account of the mysterious force which scrambles all man-made technology - The Fearance. Closely observed by two giant ravens, Rib becomes sucked into a quest for the Fearance, to an alien land of ice and fire, a violent world of berserks and blood feuds, a Viking hell from which he has to escape... A high-protein tale plotting the surreal adventures of a fifteen-year-old, The Fearance is book two of the Meskitoe trilogy.