Space Dragons by Robin Bennett - Book Tour + Giveaway
Space Dragons
If Stan Pollux had known he would be spending his summer holidays in the outer reaches of our solar system, he would have put on different underpants.
But when he gets kidnapped by the Planet Dragon Mercury, most things suddenly seem small and insignificant. Stan finds himself in a universe of dragons who had once ruled the skies as gods: Mars, Venus, Saturn and even Uranus way out back. This is shaping up to be the best summer holiday in the history of the cosmos until Stan discovers his stupid sister is missing and that Pluto (AKA Hades) is trying to use her to destroy the Solar System. And it will be all Stan’s fault if he doesn’t get Poppy back.
So, all Stan has to do is learn how to fight like a hero in space armour, defeat the dragon god of the Underworld, Hades, rescue his sister and save the world. All before his parents realise she is missing.
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Excerpt
Excerpt
Chapter I
The
whole universe: every planet, star, black hole and life form started with a
single atom exploding into a great void of nothing. Right after that, came the
Dragons.
If Stan Pollux had
known he would be spending the rest of his summer holidays in the outer reaches
of our solar system, he would have put on different underpants.
The ones he wore the
morning when it all began were too tight and had a faded picture of Ben Ten on
the back, which made them look like the child superhero had been specially
assigned by the Pants People to guard his butt.
Right now, however,
he had more important things on his mind. He looked at the pieces of his broken
telescope and thought angrily about his little sister.
‘You’re
so stupid! You broke it and even after you were told not to go in my room, or
touch my stuff!’ he’d shouted. She was the one who had smashed his telescope
but he was the one who got into trouble for making her cry, when it wasn’t her
fault, according to their mother – although of course it was! She’d knocked the
telescope over. It was obviously all her fault.
He
spent the afternoon being made to do chores.
Later, when he got
into his room it was ablaze in a blood-red glow from the setting Sun. He got
into his pyjamas, watching as the skies had darkened at the top of the window
frame and one or two stars winked into view: tiny silver dots millions and
millions of miles away.
Stan shivered once
more, in spite of the summer evening, closed the curtains quickly and turned on
the electric light. It was one of those nights when everything felt weird and a
bit spooky.
By the time Stan had
got his telescope back on its stand, properly screwed in, and had checked it
carefully for dents, the sunset had receded to a fiery fringe on the horizon
and the skies were as bottomless and black as infinity itself.
Stan’s
palms were sweaty as he handled the cool tube and it was then that he finally
admitted to himself that he felt nervous. But was it just the telescope?
Everything felt creepy tonight. He took a deep breath, removed the lens cap and
peered down the eyepiece.
Nothing. And, yet,
there was something about the deep blackness at first glance that didn’t look
like right: it almost felt as if he was staring into a hole in Space, and as
if, from the end of this long, dark tunnel, something was hiding. And waiting.
Stan shook his head.
He was just imagining things. He glanced up … nope, the Moon was bright in the
sky between two large oaks at the end of the garden. Stan checked he was
pointing it in the right direction for him to see its reassuring silvery light
and looked again.
Nothing. Just a deep,
flat blackness. OK, so his telescope was broken! Stan felt his fear driven away
by anger. Resisting the urge to rush downstairs yelling, or straight into his
sister’s room, Stan swung the scope around …
An evil-looking eye,
from the depths of Space, sprung open and stared back.
About Robin Bennett
Robin Bennett is an author and entrepreneur who has written several books for children, adults, and everything in between. Listed in the Who’s Who of British Business Excellence at 29, his 2016 documentary "Fantastic Britain", about the British obsession with fantasy and folklore, won best foreign feature at the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards, and his first book for young adults, Picus the Thief, won the Writer's News Indie Published Book of the Year Award in 2012. Robin is also a director at Firefly Press
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