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Elon Dann

Clockwise to Titan Kindle Edition

by Elon Dann (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Like prison-break movie THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION with teenagers

The story begins with Mo, Harete and Moth on the run, chased by the tyrannical forces of the Institute. Then, it flashes back to the weeks leading up to their break out. As the three teens follow a line of pylons towards the Other country and the hope of freedom, we see how they cobble together their friendship and the tools of their escape.

As the teens weave together stories from their past, present and imaginations, the truth becomes harder and harder to bear. Only the long line of wires and the lure of another way of life pulls them towards their goal.

A story of hope, peril and the fight against tyranny, written by a debut author with a degree in particle physics, every word is knocked against those surrounding it to form a fascinating action-packed read.

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352 pages
Language

English
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Hot Key Books
Publication date

4 April 2013
Reading age

13 - 15 years
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786 KB
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CLOCKWISE TO TITAN is an amazing read for young readers about friendship, adventure and survival from a talented debut... Expect more great things from this author. --We Love This Book

CLOCKWISE TO TITAN is an unusual story, and the setting and characters are quite unlike any in other teen books published of late...a good debut novel, and is certainly a break from the norm --Inis Magazine

Bleak but ultimately uplifting, Clockwise to Titan is a strong, tightly-plotted debut. --Booktrust --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Clockwise to Titan is an amazing read for young readers about friendship, adventure and survival from a talented debut... Expect more great things from this author. (We Love this Book)

CLOCKWISE TO TITAN is a strong, tightly-plotted debut. (Booktrust)

CLOCKWISE TO TITAN is an unusual story, and the setting and characters are quite unlike any in other teen books published of late...a good debut novel, and is certainly a break from the norm (Inis Magazine) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

From the Author

Elon Dann grew up in rural Lincolnshire, where his childhood was one of 'sensational boredom and ordinariness set against eye-strainingly wide fields of barley on which V-bombers cast triangular shadows'. Television educated him, although he did attend the local grammar school for appearance's sake. At eighteen he left Lincolnshire for Manchester, where he studied Physics and idolised Bertrand Russell and Kurt Vonnegut.

After a spell of being an academic, Elon has worked in various IT jobs. He now lives with his wife and two children in Worcestershire. At the weekend he enjoys voluntary litter-picking, 'sifting through the cast-off waste of society like a lanky Womble'. CLOCKWISE TO TITAN is Elon's first book. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Like prison-break movie THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION with teenagers --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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The sound was an anguished, mournful drone that cycled in pitch and spread itself like poison gas over the land. When we first heard it, we were clutching our stitch-sore sides and spitting on the ground, shattered from the chase between the pylons.

'What's that? What are they up to now?' wailed Harete.

'A siren,' I wheezed. 'Perhaps we've been spotted.'

'What's their game?'

'Chess,' said Moth. We lumbered onto pylon five, the terror behind us hidden in the freezing, ground-hugging cloud. 'We move forwards one pylon-square at a time, like pawns!'

He was wrong. You can only move to an empty square in chess, and each of ours already had a castle on it, a tower made of metal struts.

'Hide and seek,' panted Harete. Wrong again, I thought, stumbling over the muddy corrugations and trying to ignore the cold air that cut my lungs, for in that game you take turns. Our game was one I'd seen played when I was a child, staying in the slum apartment of a distant aunt. A plump cockroach was scurrying over the floor, resisting every attempt by my aunt to trap it under a cup. So she lifted up an edge of the carpet and started to laboriously roll it up. Soon, the cockroach was trapped in a narrow gap between the advancing tube of rolled rug and the wall. Next, my aunt ran a coal shovel sideways along the gap, until the cockroach was hemmed into a corner. Then she dropped a flat iron on it. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Mo,Harete and Moth are desperate to escape the Institute. Using cobbled-together survival gear and an utterly disgusting source of food, they make a break for it. Chased by tyrannical forces of the Institute, they follow a line of pylons towards the Other country and the hope of freedom. Winter tightens its grip and escape seems impossible. As the friends weave together stories from their past, present and imaginations, the truth becomes harder and harder to bear, but still they keep moving. A clever, poignant adventure along the lines of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION for young readers. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

Elon Dann grew up in rural Lincolnshire, where his childhood was one of 'sensational boredom and ordinariness set against eye-strainingly wide fields of barley on which V-bombers cast triangular shadows'. Television educated him, although he did attend the local grammar school for appearance's sake. At eighteen he left Lincolnshire for Manchester, where he studied Physics and idolised Bertrand Russell and Kurt Vonnegut. After a spell of being an academic, Elon has worked in various IT jobs. He now lives with his wife and two children in Worcestershire. At the weekend he enjoys voluntary litter-picking, 'sifting through the cast-off waste of society like a lanky Womble'. CLOCKWISE TO TITAN is Elon's first book. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

From the Back Cover

Mo,Harete and Moth are desperate to escape the Institute. Using cobbled-together survival gear and an utterly disgusting source of food, they make a break for it. Chased by tyrannical forces of the Institute, they follow a line of pylons towards the Other country and the hope of freedom. Winter tightens its grip and escape seems impossible. As the friends weave together stories from their past, present and imaginations, the truth becomes harder and harder to bear, but still they keep moving. A clever, poignant adventure along the lines of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION for young readers. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JTJE9ZU
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hot Key Books (4 April 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 786 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages

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Sylvia

Escape from the Institute

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2013

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This story is set in a dystopian future. Three disparate youngsters are anxious to escape the Institute. The chapters alternate between descriptions of the brutal life in the Institute and the hazardous life on the run. The plans for escape are ingenious and nail-biting. Fleeing during winter has its own problems and the tension is held right to the end. A well-crafted and cleverly-structured book, this gripping tale will suit bright 11 year-olds upwards. I am looking forward to the sequel.

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William Merchant

They were really engrossed by the story and enjoyed it so much they encouraged me to read it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2014

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I bought this book for my teenage children, to have something to read during the school holidays, They were really engrossed by the story and enjoyed it so much they encouraged me to read it. It paints a vivid picture of a possible dystopian future which should appeal to a wide age range. I would thoroughly recommend to all who would like an action/adventure story.

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Raz

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2022

The book was a great prison escape which in the long run had so many twist and turns that it became unpredictable. Highly recommend to read this book before the second one.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2017

“Clockwise to Titan” is an exciting book and a real page-turner. It has surprises on every page and the story of the three characters slowly unravels as they trek across the barren landscape towards freedom. The beginning of the book is full of action as Mo, Harete and Moth stage their elaborate escape plan and set off on their journey, following the pylons. The secrets behind the build up to the escape are slowly revealed in the memories of Mo. The reasons behind the escape are only truly revealed close to the end of the book and the intricate storyline will keep you guessing till the very end. The journey is fraught with danger: the marshals, desperate to put them back in the Institute,; and many other, more gruesome dangers. Alongside the characters’ adventures the clouded past of both their homeland and the “Other Country” are revealed, showing why their homeland is so evil and untrusting while the people of the “Other County” are friendly and helpful. A mysterious girl with a strange tattoo and a band of hunters seem inexorably linked to the dark past of their home country. The characters have their own pasts and backstories and these too are slowly unveiled. I would definitely recommend this book.

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Miss W Lloyd

Not just for children!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 June 2015

Thought I'd try this book after the author came into the school I work in. Wow, I was hooked. Absolutely loved it, he makes the escape so believable by covering all the basics and I loved the fact that the end was not the predictable 'happy ending'. Not just a book for children, I'm 40 something and really loved it. Off to buy the second book now!

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AndyM (Minehead)

Clockwise to Titan: A gripping rollercoaster of a novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2013

An excellent book - and suitable for all ages (I'm considerably older than the target demographic!). Strong, interesting and sympathetic characters that leave you wanting to know more about them. An intriguing plot structured in an engrossing fashion, with the fast-paced escape story interwoven with flashbacks that slowly build the reader's understanding of the overall context and associated dynamics that have led the principal protagonists to the edge-of-the-seat situations they repeatedly find themselves in. A genuine page turner. I cannot wait for the sequel.

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Michael Blackburn

Pylons will never look the same again

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2013

Clockwise has a lot going for it - great characters and descriptions, a strong narrative, lots of tension and scenes of high emotion. Each of its three main characters brings something unique to the story and will appeal to different readers: Mo, the resourceful narrator; Moth, the intellectual with a mysterious family background, and Harete, the girl who provides a kind of anchor for the group.

Clad in plastic bags and surviving mainly on disgusting rations of cold fat, this unlikely combination of youngsters learns about friendship, trust and resilience the hard way as they escape the cruel life of the Institute, trudging across the bleak, cold, claggy fields, following a line of pylons towards freedom in the Other country.

The perils of that journey don't let up for a moment as they are pursued by armed marshals with dogs and helicopters, and clavigers (warders) from the Institute, chief among them the psychopathic Jelly, who comes to a suitably shocking end. It's a terrifying landscape in which they encounter man-traps, strange horsemen, sinister outbuildings of the state, old farmhouses and some very odd people. Dann has surreptitiously incorporated details from classical mythology into the narrative to give the book greater resonance and there are times you definitely feel that some ancient creatures are about to rise from the land.

One thing Mo, Moth and Harete do to keep up their morale is to tell each other stories, and these tale-telling sessions are intertwined with the back and forth of the narrative between their progress outside the Institute and the events leading up to their escape. This means that as you follow their journey you steadily build up a sense of their lives and the oppressive society from which they are trying to escape.

Another great feature of the novel is the humour that runs through it, apparent not just in the naming of inmates in the Institute (Jelly, Retread, Sticky, Pebble Dash, etc), but also in the conversations that Mo, Moth and Harete have, and the fact that this must be the only novel in the world in which pylons play a central role. You won't be able to look at them in the same old way again.

And there's the pun in the title, of course. But you'll have to read the book to find out what that's all about.

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