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The Design
“Are the gods truly gods or just powerful humans?” The question still echoes through the city of Peshar even six hundred years after the coming of the gods. Garith Balal, a successful scribe and fair witness in the city, is pulled into the resistance to the gods through influence of a slave bought to satisfy his wife's social climbing desires. Alvis, the slave, a human from another world of the Cadeki empire, has roots in the planet Archlea where he is now a slave. He is a believer in “The Design”; the belief that all things in the universe are controlled to an unknown end by the Great Designer who created the universe.
337 pages, Paperback
Published March 4, 2020
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About the author
G. Lloyd Helm
20 books14 followersG. 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.
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.
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