White Star

Robin Llywelyn

Fantasy

Original title: Seren Wen ar Gefndir Gwyn.

This novel was originally published in Welsh in 1992 and won the Welsh Book of the Year Award. Gwern, Pilgrim, and Saffron Tinker are an unlikely trio of heroic revolutionaries, even though they're fighting to defend High Country's independence from the encroaching empire of the Heartless Bodies. Gwern kicked the whole war off by screwing up Exile State software. Their journey takes them across Sunless Summer to the badlands, mainly on a diet of ice locust sandwiches. Gwern manages fifteen minutes as a fighter pilot but winds up bailing out over enemy territory where his sustaining leafy dream of home, hearth, his sweetheart, and his son crisps to a cinder. This is a glorious mix of picaresque, SF allegory, pastoral romance, and fantasy.

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1992
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Robin Llywelyn

Robin Llywelyn (born 1958) lives in Minffordd, in north-west Wales, where he is Managing Director of the Italianate village of Portmeirion, designed by his architect grandfather Clough-Williams Ellis. He came to prominence as a writer when his first novel, Seren Wen ar Gefndir Gwyn (White Star on a White Background, 1992) won the National Eisteddfod's Prose Medal in 1992. His subsequent works confirmed his reputation as one of Wales's most innovative contemporary prose writers. His second novel, O'r Harbwr Gwag i'r Cefnfor Gwyn (From Empty Harbour to White Ocean, 1994), a tender love story which can also be read as a political fable, moves…