Gil Hardwick
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Gil Hardwick is an anthropologist,and author of several novels
Graduated with Honours in Anthropology from the University of Western Australia in 1989, majoring in Aboriginal Studies, followed by 3+ years with the Center for Irish Studies, Murdoch University. Graduated again with Honors in Literature, UWA. Currently doing a Masters in Criminal Justice with the Center for Crime Research, UWA School of Law. [1]
Publications
- The Boy Runners and the Deargbeithíoch. Published by Crusader eBooks 2013 In this young adult neopagan supernatural fantasy rewrite of Edmund Spenser’s Elizabethan poem 'The Faerie Queene', nine young Irish boys in 11th Century Leinster were made precocious through elven magic, and trained as message runners.
- PodWarp. Published by Crusader eBooks 2012 The three-part Podwarp series is a coming-of-age story about a great techno-dystopian city enclosed in an energy shield, in contrast with the rough outside life of gaucho villagers who work to feed the place. One podling boy, solxv98fg6, nicknamed Sola, learns to turn his brain implant down and assert his own thoughts. He forgets to log into the System and the Pod thinks he’s been processed.
- The Hunt for Barney. Published by Crusader eBooks 2012.A short fun-fantasy of a boy being hunted by the Egyptian God Anubis and his baying hounds while out skateboarding, until aided by winged Horus he escapes through a violent cyclone and wins his bet.
- Outbound. Published by Crusader eBooks 2012. A strange white boy arrives suddenly in a remote outback community, driving an old truck with a dead body in the back and a fortune in gems stashed under the chassis
- The Inheritor. Published by Crusader eBooks 2012. The tale of a shy, dreamy 12 year-old who suddenly discovers that he is heir to a vast outback cattle empire. ISBN-10:0987298704 ISBN-13:978-0987298706
Non Boy Related Nonfiction Publications
- Economically Useful Plants for Northern Australia. Published by Crusader eBooks 2012.
- An Easy Guide to Making Leather at Home. Published by Crusader eBooks 2012.
