The Scholar of Moab

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The Scholar of Moab - Paperback

The Scholar of Moab - Paperback

by Steven L. Peck
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2011 Best Novel, Association for Mormon letters
Montaigne Medal Finalist

"Steven Peck has imagined a world ever-so-slightly tweaked from this real one...The Scholar of Moab explores the otherworld of nature, imagination, and mind." --BROOKE WILLIAMS, author of Halflives

What happens when a two-headed cowboy, a high school dropout, and a poet abducted by aliens come together in 1970s Moab, Utah? The Scholar of Moab, a dark-comedy perambulating murder, affairs, and cowboy mysteries in the shadow of the hoary La Sal Mountains.

Young Hyrum Thayne, an unrefined geological surveyor, steals a massive dictionary out of the Grand County library in a midnight raid, startling the good people of Moab into believing a nefarious band of Book of Mormon thugs, the Gadianton Robbers, has arisen again. To make matters worse, Hyrum's illicit affair with Dora Tanner, a local poet thought to be mad, results in the delivery of a bouncing baby boy who vanishes the night of his birth. Righteous Moabites accuse Dora of the murder, but who really killed their child? Did a coyote dingo the baby? Was it an alien abduction as Dora claims? Was it Hyrum? Or could it have been the only witness to the crime, one of a pair of Oxford-educated conjoined twins who cowboy in the La Sals on sabbatical?

STEVEN L. PECK knows Moab, inside out. An evolutionary ecologist at Brigham Young University, Peck teaches the philosophy of biology. His scientific work has appeared in American Naturalist, Newsweek, Evolution, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Biological Theory, Agriculture and Human Values, Biology & Philosophy. Steven also co-edited a volume on environmental stewardship. His creative works include a novel, The Gift of the King's Jeweler (2003 Covenant Communications). His poetry has appeared in Dialogue, Bellowing Ark, Irreantum, Red Rock Review and other magazines. Peck was nominated for the 2011 Science Fiction Poetry Association's Rhysling Award. Other awards include the Meyhew Short Story Contest, First Place at Warp and Weave, Honorable Mention in the 2011 Brookie and D.K. Brown Fiction Contest, and Second Place in the Eugene England Memorial Essay Contest.
ISBN9781937226022
Author Steven L. Peck
PublisherTorrey House Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages302
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Steven L. Peck

Steven L. Peck is a professor of biology at Brigham Young University, where he teaches philosophy of biology and bioethics. His publishing history includes lots of scientific work-over fifty scientific articles, including publications in American Naturalist, American Entomologist, Biological Theory, Biology & Philosophy, Newsweek, Evolution, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Agriculture and Human Values, and other science journals. Peck's creative works include three novels. The magical-realism novel The Scholar of Moab (Torrey House Press) was named the Association for Mormon Letters best novel of 2011 and was a finalist for the Montaigne, a national award for the most thought provoking book. The existential horror novel A Short Stay in Hell, however, remains his most popular book. Peck has published a collection of speculative poetry called Incorrect Astronomy with Aldrich Press, which includes the Science Fiction Poetry Association's 2011 Rhysling Award-nominated poem "The Five Known Sutras of Mechanical Man." He has also published in Analog (fact article) Abyss & Apex, Black Denim Literature, Bellowing Ark, Daily Science Fiction, Dialogue, Glyphs III, Irreantum, Jabberwocky Magazine, Journal of Unlikely Entomology, Lissette's Tales of the Imagination, Nature Futures, Perihelion, Pedestal Magazine, Quantum Realties, Red Rock Review, Sunstone, Silver Blade, Sliver Thought Press, Tales of the Talisman, Victorian Violet Press, and Warp and Weave.

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