Charlotte Henley Babb

Charlotte Henley Babb has been writing since she was four, making up stories about fairies in the back yard and aliens in the forest. She has studied the folk stories of many cultures and wonders what happened to ours.

She asks where the stories are for people over 20 who have survived marriage, divorce, child-raising, education, bankruptcy, and widowhood. She believes that the initiation of adolescence is only the first cut, not the deepest, and she continues to explore the second half of life for wisdom, thrills and the heck of it.

She has taught writing for Greenville Technical College and the University of Phoenix. She's exploring the realm of steampunk and creative artificing.

Apart from that, she hangs out in the Twilight Lounge, a nexus between the four dimensions of Faery, Mundane, Cyberspace and the HyperDrome.

Charlotte is the author of an adult fantasy novel, Maven Fairy Godmother, released March 2012, which won a Sharp Write Book award for Fantasy in 2014, and Best Novel for Adults in the South Carolina Media Women Communications Contest in 2014. She has several fantasy short stories collected in Maven's Fractured Fairy Tales and PumpkinEater, as well as southern fiction in Walking Off Heaven's Shore, Just a Smidgen of Magic, and In the Still Midwinter. She wrote several stories in Port Nowhere, a shared world science fiction anthology, and random stories and articles. She presented "Fairy Tales and the Industrial Revolution" at Upstate Steampunk Con 2011, and has appeared on panel discussions at Dragon*Con 2011, ConCarolinas 2012 and 2015, Fairie Escape Atlanta 2012, and LibertyCon 2012. She presented at ConJuration in Atlanta in 2015. She has also presented at the Southeastern Writers Association annual conference.

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• Escape from Second Eden on March 27, 2011
  
  The suspense keeps building in this international thriller as Eiko Mueller, a survivor of Nagasaki and wife of an American marine, is targeted as the vulnerable point of diplomatic intrigue. Set in the Nixon era near the end of the Vietnam war, the story takes place as Ceylon, the "Second Paradise," renounces its British commonwealth status to become Sri Lanka. Each embassy has its eye on Eiko through their operatives, and it's not always clear who the bad guys are. This is a fun read, with a glance into the culture of Southeast Asia, the culture of diplomacy. It explores the strength of a woman who has learned how to make her place in whatever circumstances challenge her. I'd like to read more about Eiko, her back story and her further adventures in the Intelligence community.
  
• Sci-Fi Series 1 (Thirsty Work, The Acorn, Dare, Black Hole) on June 22, 2012
  
  The research done by the author clearly comes through in each story, each one a different voice, each one a different world view. But the world view of the author is clear, and the stories are enjoyable and well-written, with a new take on classic themes: who we are, what's next, first contact, and the final answer.
  
• Muslim Inventions in the Islamic Golden Age 750-1500 AD on July 08, 2012
  
  If you want to get a Cliff's Notes version of what has been left out of the Euro-centric history cannon--and trust me, much of what we have been taught is sorely lacking in detail and even accuracy--this is a good book to read. It's quick. It's navigable, so that you can find a topic area easily, and it has a good bibliography for further study. Anjum's goal is to open the Western reader's mind to associate more than terrorism in connection with Islam and the Middle East in general. Her thesis is well-supported in that Encyclopedia Britannica articles mostly ignore, the achievements of the Muslim Golden Age. If you accept that Britannica (and not Wikipedia) is a "premier source of information," then she makes a good case, as she says, in "simplest terms." A fourth grader could easily read this book and should. The book is divided into different topic sections, but many sections are only one or two pages long and are basically introduced by a paragraph citing Britannica, showing how the relevant parts are missing, followed by paragraphs listing the inventions and inventors. I am happy to know that "Avicenna" was really Ibn Senna, and that Caliph Haroun Al Rashid was a real person and a great leader. Thank you to author Aliya Anjum for providing a copy of the book for me to review.