The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko is a four-part, cross-genre novel with talking animals, pirates, empire, and buried texts. It’s a shapeshifting philosophical tale that explores the ways we read reality—and rewrite it.
Part 1 is a finished 52-episode novella that is written for adults but can be enjoyed by older kids and teens.
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The text of this edition of ‘The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko’ is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.
Some or all of the text in Episodes 26-28, 30-31, and 34 is adapted from ‘South’ by Ernest Shackleton. Published in London by Heinemann in 1919. Public Domain.
Episode 29 adapted from Wikipedia’s entry on Self-organization under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Pegasus illustration © 2024 Chris Lynch. Illustrated by Yana Smolinska.
