Descriptions of Rocket McGee’s Faraway Island
GalleryRocket McGee kids tour Faraway Island with Andrew the Antigrav Air Taxi
Rocket McGee kids tour Faraway Island with Andrew the Antigrav Air Taxi.
In Book One of the Rocket McGee Series, Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble! or Flight of the Golden Caterpillar, Chad Saenz takes Amelia and the kids for a tour of Faraway Island in Andrew, the Antigrav Air Taxi.
You know, the Aircars protect their passengers with a surrounding forcefield, but Amelia really shouldn’t be standing up, pointing like that! You think? But, she must be excited. She must have just figured out that she’s looking at the omicron Chairman’s offices from the outside, where the windows look out from the Upper Branch of the Outer Shoe onto the Sea of Faraway.
GalleryKids emerge from the Dymaxion Map Mural in the omicron Chairman’s office, in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! by Roan Reedling
The kids emerge from the Dymaxion Map Mural in the omicron Chairman’s office, in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! by Roan Reedling.
The Dymaxion Map Mural on Faraway Island is described in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! by Roan Reedling. The entire east wall of the Chairman’s Office on Faraway Island is a mosaic of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map. The Dymaxion Map shows our world as one great island chain – almost a single island – strung across one great ocean. You may note that the Dymaxion Map in the Chairman’s Office is sort of upside down and a little bit canted compared to how it’s normally shown. But, what is up or down or canted in the universe? You can learn more about Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map at the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
Faraway Island – from the Rocket McGee Series
Faraway Island is fast becoming home base for most omicrons. It’s featured in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! – the first book in the Rocket McGee Series, written for kids aged 10 to 14 by Roan Reedling. Read the book to find out more about Faraway and the omicrons through the experiences of four well-schooled and well-traveled but lonely young people about 12 years old who forge a reluctant and rocky alliance in a perilous, high-tech adventure to save one of their parents. Along the way, they discover friendship, a place in the world, and the super-human power to work together. Get a Virtual Tour of Faraway Island. It starts right here, at the Rocket McGee Blog, right now!
Faraway Island Video Tour based on excerpts from Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! by Roan Reedling
Here’s a Video Tour of Faraway Island, based on excerpts from Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! by Roan Reedling, Chapters 12 and 16: Faraway and Picnic. Just between you and me? These can be some of the drier passages in the book, but Chad insisted on taking the kids out for a tour and a picnic!
Check out the rest of the story in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! available at the Amazon Kindle Store.
This Faraway Island Video Tour is narrated by our friend John O’Grady, from the publisher, Rocketwhoosh!
Roan Reedling’s Review of Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! Review by the Author on Goodreads.com
Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! by Roan Reedling
Roan writes:
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I give it FOUR STARS out of five. Why so high, you ask? Well, I’m the author. Why not five stars, then? Ah, well! Read on, please!
I enjoy sharing books with bright young kids who are open to the wonder of the world we live in. I pre-read juvenile literature before I share it, of course. That’s my excuse for enjoying juvenile literature (and I’m sticking to it). Heck, that’s how I got into Harry Potter: pre-reading it for my niece just after it crossed the pond. Still, I appreciate a science and technology bent over magical fantasy – even if the technology is quite magical itself. And gifted, as I am, of a bright and shiny niece, I appreciate books that portray young women as strong, smart, and competent leaders. This book, as it turned out, makes the grade for me on both counts, with a good bit of fantastic technology (though nothing groundbreaking) and at least two strong female characters. The boys aren’t bad either.
I think the book has a nice action-adventure storyline too. You may find the line of action somewhat interrupted by development of the world it takes place in, but that often informs later goings-on. Still, sometimes it’s just plain old world-building. I hope you find that understandable, acceptable, and even entertaining in the first book of what’s intended to be a long series. I’m looking forward to the next book myself, and getting back into that world. Here’s a related tip: the book contains ongoing descriptions of Faraway Island. There’s a useful illustration […]
Faraway Island and the Anatomy of a Horseshoe
The inhabitants of Faraway island apply the terminology used to describe a horseshoe when they describe Faraway Island, because of its two most notable features, the concentric calderas, shaped like horseshoes! Check it out on this Map Of Faraway Island, or on this Video Tour Of Faraway Island!
