Tortoise just wants to meditate and get home in time for lunch. Gecko has other ideas…
The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko is a four-part novel that begins with pirates and high-seas adventure, then darkens into something stranger—a tale of temples, dreamworlds, and buried texts.
Part 1, The Pegasus, is a finished 52-episode novella written for adults and younger readers. Part 2, The Temple of Silence, is ongoing.
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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. Design by Yana Smolinska.
Temple illustration © 2026. Design by Jeff Purnawan.
