Djokolelono is the pen-name of an Indonesian writer and translator who is legendary in his region. At seventy-eight, he has written close to fifty books for young children, middle-graders, young-adults and adults. His debut novels, Getaran (“Vibration”) and Fall to the Sun (1976), were the earliest science fiction written by an Indonesian, and today are hailed as “far beyond the era in which the novel was written.” While none of his books are commercially available in English at this time, he allowed YAdudebooks to read a not-yet-released English translation of The Moon Son (2011), a time-travel fantasy and history adventure, […]