Ashling
As head of Obernewtyn’s Farseeker guild, Elspeth Gordie must travel to the lowlands to seal an alliance between Obernewtyn and the rebel forces that oppose the totalitarian Council. Yet her dreams call to her with an altogether different purpose: Elspeth must destroy what remains of the weapons that brought unimaginable chaos, death, and mutation to her world. Leaving the relative safety of the mountains, Elspeth embarks on a journey that takes her across the sea and into the heart of the mysterious desert region of Sador.
Aurealis Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel (1995)
About the Obernewtyn Chronicles Series
Books in series order
- 1.Obernewtyn(1987)
- 2.The Farseekers(1990)
- 3.Ashling(1995)
- 4.The Keeping Place(1999)
- 5.The Stone Key(2008)
- 6.The Sending(2011)
- 7.The Red Queen(2015)
Reading age: 12+ years
This series should be read in order.
The Obernewtyn Chronicles is a science fiction and fantasy series set in a post apocalyptic world, long after a global nuclear holocaust, called the 'Great White', has scourged the land. There are no machines, cars, computers, or planes, and in their place are horses and carts. Modern technology and information have been lost. The 'Great White' didn't only bring a reign of primitive technology: it brought mutants, those with extrasensory powers. A new government - the Council - orders these mutants, called Misfits, to be burned, and has appointed a religious authority, the Herder Faction, to hunt them down. This is the world that orphaned mutant teen Elspeth Gordie lives in. The novels deal with themes of responsibility, duty, prejudice, discrimination, tolerance, and human and animal rights.