Kerry pupil’s sci-fi story steams ahead of rivals to win fantasy fiction title

A Kerry student beat almost 10,000 entrants in a fantasy writing competition with his story about a tense chase through an airship.

Liam Stein, 16, a transition year student at Presentation Secondary School, Miltown, Killarney, took the title for writing a steampunk fantasy.

Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction set in the 19th century during the growth of industrialisation.