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Horsehead Boy

Author	Barnes, Rory
Publisher	HarperCollins
Series	Horsehead

Horsehead Boy

Barnes, Rory

Despite the title, not actually horsey as such: horses (sort of) appear later. This is the first in the trilogy, and introduces Spud, the hero.

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Printing history
HarperCollinsPublishers, Australia, 1998, 170 pp.

Despite the title, not actually horsey as such: horses (sort of) appear later. This is the first in the trilogy, and introduces Spud, the hero. He has a very nasty accident, and is whizzed off to a futuristic laboratory where he is about to become a wheelie-bin with attachments and bio-feedback mechanisms. It does not quite work out like that, however.

The Horsehead series
Horsehead Boy
Horsehead Man
Horsehead Soup

Rory Barnes

Barnes, Rory

Rory Barnes (b.1946) was born in England, moved to Rhodesia, and then when he was 10 to Australia, where he’s mostly been ever since. School was a battle: he was dyslexic, but he still managed a university career. During this, he wrote a couple of novels, neither of which was published. When he was on a fellowship at Stanford University, California, Damien Broderick read his novel of politically active school teachers in the sixties and told him the novel would work fine if only it were set in a different time and a different planet. You do it then, said Barnes, and Valencies was the result. They co-authored other novels, and since then Barnes has written whatever he can be paid to write. His subjects include epigenetic cancer, blue-green algae, and an off-the-wall children’s series about Spud, the Horsehead Boy.

Finding the books
Available in Kindle format in 2013.

Sources and links
Rory Barnes’ website