Richard Marshall

The Confiding Stone Richard Marshall

The Confiding Stone draws on the freedoms of speculative fiction in order to critically examine the seductions of power and vision. In the tradition of H. G. Wells ' The Time Machine, the story generates a vision of an alternate world in which a sophisticated civilization, already in danger of collapse, is rocked by contact with its past. King Henlone, a deeply flawed product of royal privilege, in a desperate attempt to save the city and his position, initiates a series of events that soon spin out of control. A startling truth is revealed to the inhabitants of the city, which challenges the fundamental nature of their reality.