A World Called Crimson

Two children survive a catastrophe that kills hundreds aboard their starship and wash up on a planet called Crimson, where their wishes become reality. Robin and Charlie build a world of pirates and cowboys, of wonders and monsters, all conjured from their desperate young imaginations. It's a paradise shaped by need and dream until the adults arrive. Glaudot and his expedition want what the children have: the power to manifest desire into truth. What follows is a dark collision between childhood's magical certainty and adulthood's ruthless ambition. The children must protect their creation while learning that some powers, once summoned, cannot be easily controlled. Marlowe wrote this in an era when SF dared to ask what the universe looks like through a child's eyes and found it terrifying and beautiful.