Double Negative

The Serendipity Trilogy #1

by Robin Gilbert

When Bhark Lhoudly and Whindy the Brave finally reach Hops Castle, exhausted, starving, naked and with some really nasty blisters, they find evil afoot – bloody murder – and everyone is intent on blaming them!Perhaps one of the castle guards; Cedric Beansprout can help, if he can stay off the barley beer for more than five minutes. Or maybe the dazzling young Poplar holds the answer, or is she just hiding a lovely pair of ulterior motives?One thing’s for sure… Ned the sheepdog never misses a trick, and his loyal mistress, the enigmatic old fighting cook known only as Meander has a few surprises up her sleeve, one of them being a terribly impressive left hook…

295 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 11, 2011

About the author

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I've been games programming for over 30 years (starting with the Spectrum) and writing for over 20. Blimey, that sounds a lot. I live in Brisbane with my wife, two children and Nelly and Flossie the cavoodles. We also unwittingly support the local possums.

I love to write science fiction (with an unhealthy interest in dystopian worlds, about which my Speckledom series of stories is about, beginning with Brightly Falling) and fantasy (the Gateway World stories, of which The Watchman's Daughter is my most recent). I also dabble in a strange kind of fantasy / humour hybrid (the vastgreen forest; Double Negative) and occasionally feel compelled to write a slipstream tale (Elysium).

I give my stories away for free in the hope that somebody, some day, will read something in one of them and think ... “Wow! That’s so cool. I’m going to be a writer.” ... just as I did when I was 16 years old and found a dusty old copy of Asimov’s Foundation in the attic.