G. Lloyd Helm author of DESIGN

G. Lloyd Helm is a philosopher who believes science fiction stories should be more than a diversion. They should make the reader think and question the universe, and for thirty years he has been writing just such stories. In his book DESIGN, Javi Holis, eldest some of a successful family of tapestry makers, joins a group of religious recluses. He discovers powers hidden in a collection of Mandala designs and spends his life learning how to use them in the service of the go called the Maker of All. When a technologically superior galactic empire invades the world of Javi Holis, the invaders are considered gods. The book of Design must be preserved at all costs. G. Lloyd Helm has been writing for about thirty years and has published poetry (two Chap books available from the publisher MousePrints Publishing) short stories in some very obscure magazines, including a SF short stories called “Pandemic” (2006) and “Silbury Hill” (2007), published in the English Magazine DELIVERED, a short memoir in Pilgrimage Literary Magazine (2005), a short story called “Blood” in Eureka Literary Magazine (2005); he is the 2006 winner of the Antelope Valley Literacy Coalition Short Story prize for his story “A Tale of Segovia’s Guitar.” Helm has published numerous essays in various newspapers around the world including the Washington Times, the L.A. Times, the L.A. Daily News, and the Antelope Valley Press. He has published two novels; one an anti-war fantasy called OTHER DOORS and the second a soft science fiction novel called DESIGN. Both are available through Amazon dot com, and Barnes & Nobel dot com, or from www.mouseprintspublishing.com