2022/38: Three Twins at the Crater School -- Chaz Brenchley

2022/38: Three Twins at the Crater School -- Chaz Brenchley

What kept the girls of the Crater School safe, what their parents trusted more than walls and rules and governance, was the bold nature of the girls themselves, the pioneer spirit of Mars Britannicus. So there were merlins in the lake. So what? They weren’t Earth girls, to cower indoors and never venture forth for fear of being eaten. [loc. 451]

The setting is Mars Imperial, settled by the British more than a century before our story opens. (The Russians got Venus, but do not much care for it.) As in the prototype Raj, boys are sent back to England for their education, while girls attend local boarding schools ... such as the eponymous Crater School, with its deep blue lake, Lowell Lake, wherein lurks a naiad, the mature and most deadly form of the alien species known as merlins.( Read more... )