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.

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When Tortoise joins Gecko on the high seas, he discovers that stories always transform us. With talking animals, pirates, empire, & buried texts, this shapeshifting philosophical tale explores the ways we read reality—and rewrite it.

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Chris Lynch is a White Papuan-Australian of Gaelic ancestry who lives alongside the Merri Creek, in Wurundjeri Country. An English & science teacher, his novel, 'The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko', is being serialised on Substack.