From the Street to the Stars: Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star, Book 1
About this ebook
Shortlisted for a Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award
An Our Choice selection of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre
After a lifetime of sleeping in alleys and flophouses, Kit’s musical talent is discovered, and he is remade into Andy Nebula.
Well-fed, content with a warm bed and contract, Andy begins to wonder why every previous “Sensation Single” star was a flash-in-the-pan. Little does he know that the answer lies with the off-world Hydras and their taste for music and flash, a drug forbidden to humans…and that he is their next fix.
Praise for Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star (Book 1):
“The action in Andy Nebula moves along at a cracking pace and the characters are well-drawn…Andy Nebula is fast and furious enough to keep even reluctant readers turning the pages, and young teen fans of fantasy and science fiction will not be disappointed.” – John Wilson, Quill & Quire
“… gritty and clever…Willett tells a fast-moving tale that has plenty of colour. He wastes few words and presents some good characterizations…All in all, a worthy addition to a young reader’s shelf of SF books.” – A. L. Sirois, SF Site
“It’s the combination of the familiar with the speculative that lifts Andy Nebulaabove the crowd…From page one we know we are in another time and place thanks to Willett’s deft and never-faltering use of a convincing invented slang…Get one copy for yourself, and another for a young person.” – Donna Farley, NCF Guide to Canadian Science Fiction and Fandom
“Willett writes in a humorous and flamboyant style not unlike an old-style detective novel…The novel is fast and exciting with lots of action. It also involves broader themes like differentiating between the authentic and the contrived, values and measuring success, drug addiction and tolerance between species…The writing is trim and humourous but far from vacuous. This book is fun to read. Kids will like it, too.” – Jocolyn Caton, The Regina Sun
About the author
EDWARD WILLETT is the author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction for readers of all ages. Marseguro (DAW Books) won the Aurora Award (honouring Canadian science fiction and fantasy) for Best Long-Form Work in English in 2009. His young adult fantasy Spirit Singer (recently rereleased by Shadowpaw Press) won the Regina Book Award for best book by a Regina author at the 2002 Saskatchewan Book Awards. Several other of his books have been shortlisted for those and other awards. His most most recent novels are Worldshaper, Master of the World, and The Moonlit World, the first three books in the Worldshapers series (DAW Books). Other recent titles include The Cityborn and the Masks of Aygrima trilogy (written as E.C. Blake), also from DAW; for Bundoran Press, the Peregrine Rising duology (Right to Know and Falcon’s Egg)’ and for Coteau Books, the five-book Shards of Excalibur young-adult fantasy series. His non-fiction runs the gamut from science books to biographies to history. He hosts The Worldshapers podcast (theworldshapers.com), winner of the Aurora Award for Best Fan Related Work, in which he talks to other science fiction and fantasy authors about their creative process.
In addition to being a writer, Ed is a professional actor and singer who has performed in numerous plays, musicals, and operas, and sung in several auditioned choirs, including the Canadian Chamber Choir. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, with his wife, Margaret Anne Hodges, P. Eng., a past president of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan. They have one daughter, Alice, and a black Siberian cat, Shadowpaw.
You can find him online at www.edwardwillett.com.
