Noah's Brick

by Piers Anthony

11 year old Noah discovers a remarkable brick that has three holes on one side and four holes on the other side, all of the holes passing completely through it. How can this be? He knows others will think this is nonsense, but he is determined to find out the brick's secret. This leads to an alien space station—Noah's Ark--and encounters with other young folk, such as Si, an abused 11 year old girl who also has an alien artifact. Maybe she will be his girlfriend, if she can ever learn to trust a boy. They discover special powers, and will form a project to save the world, using the alien technology.

121 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 24, 2016

About the author

Though he spent the first four years of his life in England, Piers never returned to live in his country of birth after moving to Spain and immigrated to America at age six. After graduating with a B.A. from Goddard College, he married one of his fellow students and and spent fifteen years in an assortment of professions before he began writing fiction full-time.

Piers is a self-proclaimed environmentalist and lives on a tree farm in Florida with his wife. They have two grown daughters.

Reviews

[David Demarest · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad book, but for Piers Anthony it seemed a young reader book. Will probably be a good series for teens. I'll skip it though.

[Keith · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a weird one and more of a novella than novel. Noah finds a brick, identical in all ways to the brick he's used to prop the farm gate closed every night as part of his chores. Identical except one side has the normal three holes and the other? Four? How can that be? The brick leads him to a tree which takes him, somewhere! In short order he finds out he's not alone! Other special children are finding odd objects with three holes on one side and four on the other. They're being brought together but for what? Well, I know, I read the story but I'm not going to spoil it for anyone. A little too easy, aimed at younger readers. It wasn't bad. But I'm old, I won't find a special brick.
The author mentions in his afterwords that he's considering a sequel. Originally published in 2016 no sequel has been published at this time.

[Sean Randall · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another of Piers delightfully whimsical shorts. Not much more than that to add!