I just relized that along with a many members of this forum, there are over a thousand nonmembers to this forum who can't reply to this thread. If you are not a member, but know the title of this book, please email me at mewskitty@hotmail.com and I wish you luck.

Three or four years ago I read this great book that was on the New Books shelf at my school at the time. I don't remember the title, but when I try to think of it, the word "Silkwood" comes to mind. I'm so poor I can't pay attention to authors of books I read. (I'm not sure if this is the place to joke around.) Anyways, I hope with the following discription of the book, someone can tell my the title to this book.

The book starts out with this young girl who hears five voices, a King; a Slave; a Knight; and two other people, and they all interact with each other. Then it goes on about this one person searching for a machine or something that can disort and create new realities or something like that. Well, this machine is believed to be around the area where the girl lives. Well, the machine has created a "reality bubble" than when people enter it, which they can't tell when they have, and the girl end up getting caught in another reality. I can't remember how they interact, but she ends up running into this one person who has a robot friend who helps him. *My memory can easly be disorted, so this discription could be wrong* Well, then it goes on talking about a King and his troubles with the kingdom. He also hears five voices: a Girl, a Slave, a Knight, and two others. As you can tell, all the voices the girl hears have their own story and each hear five voices. Then, after goeing back to the girl for a little while, it goes on talking about how this poor guy in the Kings kingdom becomes this Knight. The Knight the little girl and the King hear in their head. Well, as you can predict, it tells stories of all the voices. Well, after that it goes to new people, I think, and they are out in space or something. They talk about a machine on earth that is creating other realities. They already sent four people down to try and stop it, but they never came back. (In the story, the voices and characters that the little girl hears is actualy the people they sent down. The people wondered into the "reality bubble" and though the reality they entered was realy their own. The reason they could all talk to each other mentaly was they all were vivtoms of this machine.) So, this person, who I'm guessing is their last hope, goes down and tries to stop the machine. (Wow! Well, when I read, it's like playing a movie in my head. As I was typing, an image of them driving up to this old mansion flashed through my head.) Well, she is able, with the girls help, to stop this machine, which is infact the robot who was helping the little girl the whole time. Well, they stop the robot, and I think the girl goes with all the people trapped in other realities, but I don't remember.

Well, that's all I can remember of the book. Please help me find out the title, it would be a great Christmas gift.

If you can wrack your brain to come up with an actual quote you can try googling it. "Silkwood" was a different story altogether, a 1983 movie about the life of a real person named Karen Silkwood.

From what you've said it's almost surely a science fiction book. Ask your question on that forum and somebody will probably spend hours trying to find it. If he hasn't already read it.

I think Silkwood was the name of the forest created by the machine. But I can't trust my memory. I'll try googleing about how the girl heard 5 voices. I'll edit this post if I find anything worth telling people.

"Ann is a teenaged (or perhaps barely preteen) girl in a town in England, near a place called Hexwood Farms. She also hears voices in her head -- the voices of four people: the Boy, the King, the Prisoner, and the Slave."


1.) Fits the time frame: HarperTrophy (September 1, 2002).
2.) Hexwood... which has something in common with Silkwood.
3.) Has "King", "slave" and "voices" in common with your description.
4.) Science Fiction.
5.) Description on website vaguely related to your plot description.

I think we've got a winner:

http://www.amazon.com/Hexwood-Diana-Wynne-Jones/dp/0064473554

It's a tad premature - seeing as he hasn't confirmed it - but good job :)

I had a little hunt, but couldn't come up with anything.

from the L.A. library description -

"Ann discovers that the wood near her village is under the control of a Bannus, a machine that manipulates reality, placed there many years ago by powerful extraterrestrial beings called Reigners."

Tristan wins the prize of... uh, awesomeness points?

or a virtual cookie ^_^

I just read it.
I wouldn't recommend it.
It wasn't awful though, parts of it were enjoyable.

It sounds cool, they want the girl Ann to be a breeder for a race of servants, and to boot she looks 13 but is really 20! Way-to-go author :-)~

Why didn't I see this thread before? I quite liked that book. The King was Arthur, the Prisoner was Merlin, the Slave was Mordion, the Boy was Martellion and the Young Girl was Vierran herself. She came through on a different frequency and was able to talk to Mordion even when the helmets shut out the other voices.

Someone emailed me the title of this book last Friday or yesterday and when I looked it up on Gogle's book search, the front picture on the book told me it was the right book. But, I guess I should have checked this thread sooner. My memory was wrong on the number of voices and a few other things, but now that I know the title of this book I can refresh my memory. Thanks y'all! (mainly Tristan for being the first to post the title of the book.)