D. R. Spires

Olympus, and the House of Tchrlok (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The work is grouped into four books, the first three starting approx. Five thousand years ago, and the last, on a critical day, bringing them and the characters all together into one work. Opening with "A Book of Traxis," I introduce an ancient, imperial race of creatures from the adjacent Cygnus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, across from the Crab Nebula, where a girl is graduating from a technical school. For her finals project, she develops a device that more or less creates a temporary copy of life forms, past and present, depending upon data input. The device is seen as a minor accomplishment, one which could be used to confirm or refute Traxian history books, but little more. The ruler of Traxis finds the device intriguing, and likely one she might be able to employ in combat, to probe a far distant enemy prior to invasion. Her chosen target world is Telmut 3, which humanity refers to as Earth. In "A Book of Earth," we find odd occurrences, with fabled beings from the remote past somehow being reborn, if indeed they were ever born before. Among the returning entities are a number of Greek heroes, such as Herikles, crossing the streets of New York City, and impish Pan roaming the wilderness of Pennsylvania and Ohio, filching food from farms, where he eventually meetsa mermaid. Through astronomical observations, Prof. von Kreiger of Cornell University is able to deduce the impending invasion, but can see little the people of Earth might do to prevent the implied conflict. With "A Book of Gods," we have the return of the Greek pantheon, and a new god, Herikles' great grandfather, Perseus, the first king of Mycen, complete with the glory of Pegasus, sent upon a quest to find his wife, Andromeda, the first queen of Mycen. The gods, being gods, realize the approach of the Traxian armada and set preparations to meet force with divinity. Finally, in "A Book of Khaos," the enemy is met and conflict is . . . well . . . more than expected. There is a minor twist in the story here, as a major defender of Earth, Aphrodite, discovers the truth regarding the rebirth of Olympus, tracing events to the machine aboard the Traxian mothership. Fearing annihilation for herself and her amazing family, she approaches the Traxian ruler, in search of salvation. Except for a few minor additions for the glossary (I was informed by a reader some years ago this might be nice for the cartoon-raised generation who may not be well versed in Thomas Bulfinch's mythology text books) and some rewriting (truncation, actually) of published lyrics and the addition of a few poignant chapter quotations, the manuscript is complete, with the ending left a bit open for a possible sequel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514480373
• Artikelnr.: 52598835

Autorenporträt

Growing up along Blacklick Creek in central Ohio was a charmed period. Dreams seemed to come true, wonders never ceased, and my imagination blossomed, unhindered. My most exciting time back then was a camping trip to Cape Canaveral to watch the launch of Apollo 11, followed by a tour of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, and watching the monstrous Cat that had carried the Saturn V-powered rocket out to the launch pad, as it lumbered its way back to the VAB. It was 1969, and America was going places only dreamed of. A few years later and there was the US Army. A quick tour of duty at the Panama Canal found me with a great crew of associates. Infantry. We had each other's back and we knew it. And there was that little schoolgirl I had a crush on. Months later, she graduated high school and discovered she had a crush on me as well. We were married and stayed together thirty years, with three wonderful sons, until her very untimely passing in 2007. My spark for IT was lit early, while serving in the US Army, where I worked as Infantry Radio Operator and Squad Leader, and later in the Signal Corps as an Automatic Digital Network (Autodin) Automated Switching Center (ASC) Station Technical Controller Shift Supervisor and Section Chief. I have hauled cable, spliced lines, installed commo vans, built comm centers, and just had a blast. I eventually departed the military, returning to Ohio and taking a job as a security guard, where I became detail commander at Huntington Center, Columbus, while at the same time attending DeVry University on Alum Creek Drive for my Associates degree in electronics. My experiences include publications in both creative and technical writing. My technical writing experience encompasses both Military and civilian worlds, with very detailed documentation, aimed to pull an individual from the street to operate just about any system I can understand, from a single person workstation to setting up a mobile military communications van. And I'm still marveling at just about every turn.