Background
Terence Green was born on February 2, 1947 in Toronto, Canada to Thomas and Margaret.
(A nineteenth-century Irish convict is jolted forward in t...)
A nineteenth-century Irish convict is jolted forward in time while a man from the future takes his place, in this novel by a World Fantasy Award finalist. Fletcher Christian IV, a descendant of the original Bounty mutineer living in the year 2072, is lost in time. His participation in mystic time-travel rituals has wreaked havoc on the space-time continuum, sending a nineteenth-century prisoner forward to Pitcairn Island in 1972 while depositing Christian in his place. As Bran Michael Dalton—the Irish convict he replaced—contends with an incomprehensible future, Christian finds himself trapped in a hellhole of disease, abuse, and unimaginable brutality. All thoughts of repairing a rift in history must be pushed aside for the greater challenge of survival at any cost. From “a writer in the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Theodore Sturgeon” (The Edmonton Journal), Sailing Time’s Ocean is “a snappy time-travelling nuclear-bomb thriller featuring Greenpeace, Inca magic and French bomb-testing” (The Globe and Mail). A nineteenth-century Irish convict is jolted forward in time while a man from the future takes his place, in this novel by a World Fantasy Award finalist. Fletcher Christian IV, a descendant of the original Bounty mutineer living in the year 2072, is lost in time. His participation in mystic time-travel rituals has wreaked havoc on the space-time continuum, sending a nineteenth-century prisoner forward to Pitcairn Island in 1972 while depositing Christian in his place. As Bran Michael Dalton—the Irish convict he replaced—contends with an incomprehensible future, Christian finds himself trapped in a hellhole of disease, abuse, and unimaginable brutality. All thoughts of repairing a rift in history must be pushed aside for the greater challenge of survival at any cost. From “a writer in the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Theodore Sturgeon” (The Edmonton Journal), Sailing Time’s Ocean is “a snappy time-travelling nuclear-bomb thriller featuring Greenpeace, Inca magic and French bomb-testing” (The Globe and Mail).
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(This family saga that travels through time—from modern To...)
This family saga that travels through time—from modern Toronto to Depression-era Kentucky—and explores how the ghosts of the past shape our history. Every family has its stories: joys and losses, hopes and regrets. For the family that populates these three novels, the secrets forgotten with the passing of years become suddenly accessible, as journeys through time unite loved ones across the decades. Shadow of Ashland: Leo Nolan’s mother shows him a rose just before she dies—and claims it was given to her by her brother, who disappeared fifty years earlier. Leo is sure it’s the delirium talking, the rambling of a sick and elderly woman. But after her death, letters from the same long-lost brother begin to arrive at the family home, postmarked 1934—plunging Leo into a journey that will take him all the way from Canada to Ashland, Kentucky, where he will walk through a window that leads to another time and world. A Witness to Life: This prequel focusing on Leo’s maternal grandfather, Martin Radey, and the chronology of his life “is an emotionally charged experience that will not be soon forgotten” (Dallas Morning News). St. Patrick’s Bed: In the final chapter to the Ashland Trilogy, a son of the next generation asks questions about his biological father and sets off along with Leo on a quest for his heritage and history. A highly acclaimed epic from “a special writer,” The Ashland Trilogy blends the fantastical and the real in a tale that will resonate with anyone who has yearned to know more about the generations who came before (The Globe and Mail). This family saga that travels through time—from modern Toronto to Depression-era Kentucky—and explores how the ghosts of the past shape our history. Every family has its stories: joys and losses, hopes and regrets. For the family that populates these three novels, the secrets forgotten with the passing of years become suddenly accessible, as journeys through time unite loved ones across the decades. Shadow of Ashland: Leo Nolan’s mother shows him a rose just before she dies—and claims it was given to her by her brother, who disappeared fifty years earlier. Leo is sure it’s the delirium talking, the rambling of a sick and elderly woman. But after her death, letters from the same long-lost brother begin to arrive at the family home, postmarked 1934—plunging Leo into a journey that will take him all the way from Canada to Ashland, Kentucky, where he will walk through a window that leads to another time and world. A Witness to Life: This prequel focusing on Leo’s maternal grandfather, Martin Radey, and the chronology of his life “is an emotionally charged experience that will not be soon forgotten” (Dallas Morning News). St. Patrick’s Bed: In the final chapter to the Ashland Trilogy, a son of the next generation asks questions about his biological father and sets off along with Leo on a quest for his heritage and history. A highly acclaimed epic from “a special writer,” The Ashland Trilogy blends the fantastical and the real in a tale that will resonate with anyone who has yearned to know more about the generations who came before (The Globe and Mail).
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“A beautiful novel” of life and death, past and present, and the thin lines that lie between them (The Toronto Star). On a streetcar, on Christmas Day, 1950, clutching the chrome rail in front of him, Martin Radey looks at the woman seated beside him, a stranger, and utters his last words: “I can’t breathe.” Like millions, billions before him, it is his turn to die. But death is not what he expected. The journey has only begun. From 1880 to 1950, time happens to the world around him, not to memory, because memory, he discovers, is beyond time, traveling forward with him, shaping the earth, the sky, the heart. The prequel to the widely celebrated Shadow of Ashland, A Witness to Life “is an emotionally charged experience that will not soon be forgotten.” (Dallas Morning News) “A beautiful novel” of life and death, past and present, and the thin lines that lie between them (The Toronto Star). On a streetcar, on Christmas Day, 1950, clutching the chrome rail in front of him, Martin Radey looks at the woman seated beside him, a stranger, and utters his last words: “I can’t breathe.” Like millions, billions before him, it is his turn to die. But death is not what he expected. The journey has only begun. From 1880 to 1950, time happens to the world around him, not to memory, because memory, he discovers, is beyond time, traveling forward with him, shaping the earth, the sky, the heart. The prequel to the widely celebrated Shadow of Ashland, A Witness to Life “is an emotionally charged experience that will not soon be forgotten.” (Dallas Morning News)
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“A MODERN GHOST STORY” –The Globe and Mail “There’s a line drawn across your life. You cross the line forever.” When Leo Nolan’s father dies in 1995, his stepson, Adam, now twenty-one, finally asks the question that he has never asked, the question he could never ask. He asks it simply. “Is my father alive?” ST. PATRICK'S BED, the sequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award finalists SHADOW OF ASHLAND and A WITNESS TO LIFE, revisits Leo’s family, eleven years after the momentous visit to Ashland, Kentucky. Thus begins this new odyssey to Dayton, Ohio, to the past, accompanied by family ghosts and the hard truths of the present. Leo’s quest is both simple and complex: the need in the human heart for redemption, resolution and homecoming. “If Turgenev hadn’t already nabbed it, ST. PATRICK'S BED could have been entitled Fathers and Sons, with Leo Nolan straddling both roles. The novel morphs into a road book, taking him from Toronto to Dayton, Ohio, and Ireland. Compact, quietly thoughtful, emotionally compelling….Green’s skill as a fantasist shines. A special writer.” –The Globe and Mail "The book is genuine." --Dayton Daily News "The ending of this book was like a large blast of fireworks." --The Danforth Review "Green’s novels tell big stories in his characters’ lives, and they become important to us as readers. Deeply satisfying...will appeal to a wide readership, one I hope he achieves, one he deserves to achieve." –Books To Look For (Charles de Lint, Fantasy & Science Fiction) "ST. PATRICK'S BED is a gem." --sfsite.com “A MODERN GHOST STORY” –The Globe and Mail “There’s a line drawn across your life. You cross the line forever.” When Leo Nolan’s father dies in 1995, his stepson, Adam, now twenty-one, finally asks the question that he has never asked, the question he could never ask. He asks it simply. “Is my father alive?” ST. PATRICK'S BED, the sequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award finalists SHADOW OF ASHLAND and A WITNESS TO LIFE, revisits Leo’s family, eleven years after the momentous visit to Ashland, Kentucky. Thus begins this new odyssey to Dayton, Ohio, to the past, accompanied by family ghosts and the hard truths of the present. Leo’s quest is both simple and complex: the need in the human heart for redemption, resolution and homecoming. “If Turgenev hadn’t already nabbed it, ST. PATRICK'S BED could have been entitled Fathers and Sons, with Leo Nolan straddling both roles. The novel morphs into a road book, taking him from Toronto to Dayton, Ohio, and Ireland. Compact, quietly thoughtful, emotionally compelling….Green’s skill as a fantasist shines. A special writer.” –The Globe and Mail "The book is genuine." --Dayton Daily News "The ending of this book was like a large blast of fireworks." --The Danforth Review "Green’s novels tell big stories in his characters’ lives, and they become important to us as readers. Deeply satisfying...will appeal to a wide readership, one I hope he achieves, one he deserves to achieve." –Books To Look For (Charles de Lint, Fantasy & Science Fiction) "ST. PATRICK'S BED is a gem." --sfsite.com
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Terence Green was born on February 2, 1947 in Toronto, Canada to Thomas and Margaret.
Green received a bachelor's degree in English in 1967 from the University of Toronto, as well as master's degree from the University College, Dublin, and Bachelor of Education degree in 1973 from the University of Toronto.
Green began his career working as an English teacher at East York Collegiate Institute. Also he was actively engaged in writing. Green’s first novel, Barking Dogs, is a futuristic, violent thriller. The novel’s hero is police officer Mitch Helwig of the Canadian city of Toronto, Ontario, who takes revenge on criminals after his partner is murdered.
More favorably received was Green’s 1992 novel, Children of the Rainbow, a time-travel novel that centers on a character named Fletcher Christian IV— a descendant of the hero of Mutiny on the Bounty.
Four years after the release of Children of the Rainbow, Green produced the novel Shadow of Ashland.
With Blue Limbo Green returned to the style of the futuristic thriller, and to hero Mitch Helwig. Coinciding with Helwig’s violent mission is a twenty-first-century medical breakthrough, a technique known as “Blue Limbo,” used for reviving the recently dead back to consciousness.
(A nineteenth-century Irish convict is jolted forward in t...)
(This family saga that travels through time—from modern To...)
(“A beautiful novel” of life and death, past and present, ...)
(“A MODERN GHOST STORY” –The Globe and Mail “There’s a lin...)
Quotations: “The Redemption of Martin Radey is a follow-up to Shadow of Ashland, spinning off one of the characters mentioned in that novel. Both books use as their starting points real people and incidents in my own family. (In Shadow of Ashland, a major character, Jack Radey, is the real name of an uncle of mine who disappeared in the 1930s; The Redemption of Martin Radey is based on the life of my maternal grandfather, whose name is in fact Martin Radey.) They illustrate my growing interest in exploring the intricacies of family in fiction, a kind of blend of genealogy, drama, mythologizing, and personal resolution.”
Canadian science fiction writer Terence M. Green has been praised throughout his career for his quiet, restrained style. A Science Fiction Chronicle reviewer, discussing Green’s first collection of stories, The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind, theorized that such a style, however worthy, would not establish the author’s fame until a substantial body of work had been built up. The reviewer further stated that while not yet widely known. Green’s writing “is extraordinary and indicates a great talent masquerading as simplicity.” Reviewer Joel Yanofsky wrote in Books in Canada, “it’s Green’s restrained and understated prose style that makes his fiction work.” Yanofsky approved of the fact that the short stories in Green’s collection deal with universal human emotions as much as with the trappings of science-fiction. In some of the stories, for instance, futuristic technology allows characters to speak with their dead rela-tives; Green uses this scenario to explore the emotional ramifications of such communication. “Green’s vision of the future,” Yanofsky asserted, “is of a world, not unlike our own, that has progressed too much and gotten too smart for the people who inhabit it.”
Green married Merle Casci on September 2, 1994, and they had 2 children: Conor and Owen.