Book description
At four-thirty one Saturday afternoon the laws of physics as we know
them underwent a change. Electronic devices, cars, industries stopped.
The lights went out. Any technology more complicated than a lever or
pulley simply wouldn't work. A new set of rules took its place-laws that
could only be called magic. Ninety-nine percent of humanity has simply
vanished. Cities lie abandoned. Supernatural creatures wander the
silenced achievements of a halted civilization. Pete Garey has survived
the Change and its ensuing chaos. He wanders the southeastern United
States, scavenging, lying low. Learning. One day he makes an unexpected
friend: a smartassed unicorn with serious attitude. Pete names her Ariel
and teaches her how to talk, how to read, and how to survive in a world
in which a unicorn horn has become a highly prized commodity. When they
learn that there is a price quite literally on Ariel's head, the two
unlikely companions set out from Atlanta to Manhattan to confront the
sorcerer who wants her horn. And so begins a haunting, epic, and
surprisingly funny journey through the remnants of a halted civilization
in a desolated world. Steven Boyett (1960 - ) Steven R. Boyett was
born in Atlanta, Georgia, grew up all over Florida, and attended the
University of Tampa on a writing scholarship before quitting to write
his first novel, Ariel, when he was nineteen. Soon after Ariel was
published he moved from Florida to Los Angeles, California, where he
continued to write fiction and screenplays as well as teach college
writing courses, seminar, and workshops. He has published stories in
literary, science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies and
magazines, as well as publishing articles and comic books. In the early
Nineties his imprint Sneaker Press published chapbooks by the poets
Carrie Etter and the late Nancy Lambert. He has also been a martial arts
instructor, professional paper marbler, advertising copywriter,
proofreader, tyepsetter, writing teacher, and Website designer and
editor.
