![]() And what is the aliens’ nefarious master plan? Horseracing of course! Flame the Island Stallion Goes Intergalactic Unlike any of the other books in Farley’s two series, The Island Stallion Races posits the idea of beings from another galaxy landing on Earth, specifically the island where the mighty stallion Flame lives with his herd. But it is an interesting footnote to the whole SF canon. Dick quaking in their boots at this upstart competitor? ![]() ![]() But were his SF contemporaries of the time like Robert Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, Andre Norton, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Such an inclusion adds a whole other level of interest to Farley’s work. Was Walter Farley, the author of the beloved Black Stallion and Island Stallion series of young adult books, a closet science fiction writer? Whatever the reasons, Farley incorporated a science fiction element into his third Island Stallion novel, The Island Stallion Races (1955). Flame the Island Stallion Goes IntergalacticĪ 1955 novel by Walter Farley, The Island Stallion Races, and its unusual nod to science fiction. ![]()
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