May 10, 2015
Prose with Helen Hagemann at the Fremantle Arts Centre
Cost: $20 OOTA $25 NON-OOTA
Room 3, Upstairs - Fremantle Arts Centre
Plot Summary
After a diving team at Wilkes Ice Station is killed, the station sends out a distress signal. A team of United States Recon Marines led by Shane Schofield, code named Scarecrow, arrives at the station. At the station he finds several French scientists have arrived, and several more come after the Marines' arrival. The French reveal themselves as soldiers and a fight ensues in the station, claiming the lives of Scarecrow's men Hollywood, Legs and Ratman, along with several scientists and most of the French soldiers, while Mother loses her leg, Samurai is badly injured, and two French scientists are captured. Schofield decides to send a team down to find an object below the ice where the diving team was going. Later, Samurai is found strangled, leaving the only people he trusts to be one of the scientists, Sarah Hensleigh and another soldier named Montana as he was with them at the time of Samurai's death. Hensleigh, Montana and two other Marines, Gant and Santa Cruz, are sent down to where the diving team vanished. While alone, Schofield is shot and killed. He later wakes up, found to have been accidentally resurrected by his attacker, and is in the care of scientist James Renshaw, the believed killer of one of the other scientists at Wilkes. Watching a video of Schofield's death, they see the attacker and discover it to be one of Schofield's men, Snake. The two capture Snake before he is able to kill the wounded Mother.
Matthew John Reilly (2 July
1974) is an Australian action thriller writer. His novels are noted for their
fast pace, twisting plots and intense action.
Early life: Reilly was born on 2 July 1974 in Sydney,
the second son of Ray and Denise. He grew up in Willoughby, an affluent suburb
on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Reilly graduated from Sydney's St Aloysius' College in Milsons Point,
in 1992.[4] Reilly then studied Law at the University of New South Wales[5]
between 1993 and 1997, graduating 31st out of 250 students.[6] While at
university he was also a contributor to the student law society publication
"Poetic Justice".
Career: Reilly wrote his first book, Contest, at the age of 19 and
self-published it in 1996. It was rejected by every major publisher in
Australia, leading Reilly to self-publish 1000 copies using a bank loan. Reilly
was discovered when Cate Paterson, a commissioning editor from Pan Macmillan
found a self-published copy of Contest
in a bookstore. Pan Macmillan signed Reilly to a two-book deal. Reilly wrote
his second book, Ice Station, while
studying at the University of NSW. It was quickly picked up by publishers in
the U.S., U.K. and Germany. He has since sold over 7 million copies of his
books worldwide, in over 20 languages. Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves was
the biggest-selling fiction title in Australia in 2011. Three more of Reilly's
books have been the biggest-selling Australian titles of their years of
release: Seven Ancient Wonders
(2005), The Five Greatest Warriors
(2009) and The Tournament (2013).
In 2007, Reilly wrote a half-hour television script titled Literary Superstars. The script was
picked up by Darren Star (Sex and the City) and bought by Sony Pictures for the
ABC Network. Jenna Elfman signed on to play the lead role. The pilot episode
was at the casting stage when the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike
began, paralyzing Hollywood. The pilot was placed on indefinite hiatus before
ultimately being dropped by the ABC.
Personal life: In 2004
Reilly married his childhood sweetheart, Natalie Freer. Freer attended a nearby
high school, Loreto Kirribilli, and also went to the University of New South
Wales, where she studied Psychology. Reilly credits Freer with encouraging him
to self-publish his first book. In early December 2011, while Reilly was in
South Australia on a book tour promoting Scarecrow
and the Army of Thieves, Natalie, who had suffered from anorexia and
depression, committed suicide. Reilly subsequently cancelled his remaining book
tours and announced his intention to take a break from online communications
for a while.
Reilly owns several movie prop reproductions such as a life-size statue
of Han Solo frozen in carbonite from Star Wars, a golden idol from Raiders of
the Lost Ark, and a DeLorean DMC-12 from Back to the Future. A big fan of
Hollywood blockbusters, Reilly hopes to one day direct a movie adapted from one
of his own books.
Bibliography
Stand-alone novels
Contest (1996; republished in 2000)
Temple (1999)
The Tournament
(2013) set in the year 1546.
Troll Mountain (2014)
The Great Zoo of China
(November 2014)
Shane Schofield
Ice Station (1998)
Area 7 (2001)
Scarecrow (2003)
Hell Island (2005)
Scarecrow and the Army of
Thieves (2012), re-titled as Scarecrow Returns in the United States.
Jack West Jr
Seven Ancient Wonders (2005), retitled as 7
Deadly Wonders in the United States.
The Six Sacred Stones (2007)
The Five Greatest Warriors
(2009)
Hover Car Racer
Hover Car Racer (2004)
Published as three mini-books in
the United States:
Crash Course (2005)
Full Throttle (2006)
Photo Finish (2007)
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Station
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