Alpha Centauri

Robert Siegel
Published by Lion Publishing
0-7459-1602-3, £2.25

Fantasy readers of my acquaintance like books to be long and involved so this one ought to prove popular. After a short American version of modern English country life, the heroine, Becky, gets whisked back to very ancient Kent where, by magic, mystery, bloodshed and mysticism, she manages to fulfil the statutory prophesy and save the centaurs for a future time when we'll most need them. At the moment they're in peril from the Rock Movers - early McAlpine. It's a good yarn, fast-moving and vividly realised. I had a job putting it down after the homespun and broth start.

Reviewed in BfK No. 57 (July 1989) by David Bennett (DB)
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