World Without End

by G. Lloyd Helm

When an author writes a story, creates a world and the creatures in it, does the literary world actually come into being in some parallel universe? Joshua Gordon, creative writing professor and writer of pulp fiction thinks so and is in fact so convinced it is true that when he is diagnosed with a terminal illness he sets out to find a protégé who he can convince to take over as the creator god of the world. He finds that protégé in the person of John Fisher.

306 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

G. Lloyd Helm has been writing for 40 years, having published poetry in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers including “The New York Poetry Anthology,” “Stars and Stripes News,” “The Los Angeles Times,” “The Antelope Valley Press,” and “The Antelope Valley Anthologies,” among others.

The English journal  “Pilgrimage” published his memoir “Football” in spring 2005, and “4 April, 1968” in the winter of 2008.

 G. Lloyd Helm has published short stories in “Citadel” the literary magazine of Los Angeles City College, “Short Story Library,” The University of S. Illinois’ “Eureka Literary Magazine,” “Tales as like as not,” and London’s “Black Gate Magazine.”   He recently published “Even Up” a Civil War Ghost story at www.ruthlesspeoples.com, an English on line magazine, and the short story “A Lovely Elephant” in “Delivered Magazine” an English fiction journal.  He has also published “The Other Fellows Shoes,” Pulp Empire III, Metahuman Press, Cedar Rapids, and most recently a volume of short stories called "Train Wheels, Flying Saucers, and the Ghost of Tiburcio Vasquez".  Many of these stories appear on the Alfie Dog site.

G. Lloyd Helm has published three novels in the Fantasy and Science Fiction field: Other Doors, Design, and World Without End.  He has also published a literary Romance novel called Sometimes in Dreams.

Reviews

[Terry Cornell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book by local Antelope Valley author. Really a story within a story. Does a writer create a world with the characters he creates? Does that 'fictional' world still exist when the creator dies? Thought provoking work, that has elements of science fiction, Christianity, and family dissension.

[Brody Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great story by G. Lloyd Helm. This story is a different spin on a very familiar Christian story. Is an author god of what he has created on paper? That is the thought presented here by Helm. Once the story starts, it becomes hard to put down. As you read along you can't help but pull the similarities from the Christian reference and the story created. This is not a Christian story, but it brings to light other thoughts, ideas, that many may have pondered over the years of the Christian figure. I am glad I took the time to sit down with this one.