Fenton Wood
Author of the YANKEE REPUBLIC series and the upcoming NIGHTLAND RACER
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A young radio engineer travels across an alt-history America, encountering primeval gods, mythical beasts, and tall tales come to life, in a quest to build a radio transmitter that can reach the stars.
A unique take on American magical realism, combining hard SF and ancient mythology. It starts out as a boys' adventure tale, and blows up into a bigger and weirder world than you ever imagined.
YANKEE REPUBLIC is an old-school adventure series with traditional values and down-to-earth heroes. Escape from the pessimism and propaganda of modern fiction, and take a journey through a mythic America that might have been.
Read the reviews!
This odd, quirky, fun, and wildly imaginative series has gotten rave reviews from indy SF authors and readers.
"Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves is an amazing young adult techno-adventure reminiscent of Bertrand R. Brinley’s classic Mad Scientists Club. Set in an alternate universe nostalgically reminiscent of mid-century America, Wood tells the story of a boy and his young friends as they struggle to build and operate a radio station. I highly recommend this book, and I look forward to more Yankee Republic tales." - Hans G. Schantz, The Hidden Truth, scientific advisor for the Yankee Republic series
"Fenton Wood’s debut novel does so many things right that it’s hard to knowing where to start a proper review. The basic plot... is actually a narrative device, a central structure on which Woods hangs all sorts of interludes and vignettes that run the gamut from frontier ghost stories, to Old Country goblin tales, to cloak and dagger games of cat and mouse, to diamond hard sci-fi, and along the way, each little morsel provides a broader glimpse into the wider world of a world that might be a long time after the apocalypse, might be a fairy-tale inversion of our world, or might be its own thing altogether." - Jon Mollison, Barbarian Emperor, Neon Harvest
"This is an utterly charming short novel which, on the surface, reads like a young adult adventure from the golden age, along the lines of the original Tom Swift or Hardy Boys series. But as you get deeper into the story, you discover clues there is much more going on than you first suspected, and that this may be the beginning of a wonderful exploration of an alternative reality which is a delight to visit and you may wish were your home." - John Walker, co-founder of Autodesk, Inc.
"This is the kind of book that having read it makes you feel like you have a fun, exciting secret, and saying too much would give it away and spoil it for those who follow after." - Neovictorian, Sanity
"Zowie, what a read! I thoroughly enjoyed Fenton Wood's Pirates of the Electromagnetic waves and I CAN'T WAIT for the sequel. This is the sort of book I've always wanted but didn't imagine could exist. Just plain wonderful!" - Jeffro Johnson, APPENDIX N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons
"...short, whimsical, enjoyable novel Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves. Reminiscent of Bradbury. Highly recommended." - Rob Kroese, Dream of the Iron Dragon