Fletcher, Charlie
Entry updated 31 October 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1960- ) UK screenwriter for film and television (none sf) and author, who also writes as C A Fletcher, and who created two fantasy series under the overall Stoneheart Milieu rubric. The Stoneheart sequence, beginning with Stoneheart (2006; vt Stone Heart 2007), is set in a London whose mundane surface is Crosshatched by a second reality ascertainable only by the cast of young protagonists, who become involved in intricate conflicts involving animate statues [for Animate/Inanimate and Crosshatch see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. In the second sequence, the Dragon Shield series beginning with Dragon Shield (2014), a Time Distortion generated from within the British Museum freezes the great city. Fletcher's third sequence, the Oversight Trilogy beginning with The Oversight (2014), also set in a beleaguered London, follows the eponymous organization's attempts to maintain the barriers between realities.
Fletcher's first standalone novel, Far Rockaway (2011), treats New York to a similar Crosshatch, in this case between normal reality and a city inhabited by characters from books the protagonist has read. A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World (2019) as by C A Fletcher is a Near Future sf tale set in a world almost depopulated after Homo sapiens suddenly and nearly universally becomes an infertile race, possibly doomed to extinction. The young protagonist, relatively safe on an isolated Island must travel into dangerous territory in search of his stolen dog; fertility may ensue. Dead Water (2022) as by C A Fletcher Equipoisally sketches in Horror in SF terms events on what may be a very Near Future half-abandoned Island whose waters are poisoned by what might be a Pandemic infestation; but the corruption here may as well be supernatural. [JC]
Charlie Fletcher
born UK: 1960
works
series
Stoneheart Milieu: Stoneheart
- Stoneheart (London: Hodder Children's Books, 2006) [Stoneheart: hb/David Wyatt]
- Stone Heart (New York: Hyperion, 2007) [vt of the above: Stoneheart: hb/Steve Stone]
- Iron Hand (London: Hodder Children's Books, 2007) [Stoneheart: hb/Steve Stone]
- Silvertongue (London: Hodder Children's Books, 2008) [Stoneheart: hb/Steve Stone]
Stoneheart Milieu: Dragon Shield
- Dragon Shield (London: Hodder Children's Books, 2014) [Dragon Shield: pb/]
- The London Pride (London: Hodder Children's Books, 2015) [Dragon Shield: pb/]
- The City of Beasts (London: Hodder Children's Books, 2016) [Dragon Shield: pb/]
Oversight Trilogy
- The Oversight (London: Orbit, 2014) [Oversight: hb/]
- The Paradox (London: Orbit, 2015) [Oversight: hb/Kirk DouPonce]
- The Remnant (London: Orbit, 2017) [Oversight: hb/Kirk DouPonce]
individual titles
- Far Rockaway (London: Hodder Children's Books, 2011) [hb/]
- A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World (London: Orbit, 2019) as by C A Fletcher [hb/]
- Dead Water (London: Orbit, 2022) as by C A Fletcher [hb/kid-ethic]
links
- Charlie Fletcher
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Animate/Inanimate; Crosshatch.
- Picture Gallery
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