Saturday, September 13, 2014

A great scarab beetle of Egypt's underworld - VIRTUAL ETERNITY


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“Whoa, what is that?” 
“A scarab beetle.”
“As big as a tank?”
A monster beetle with shining black carapace and spiky legs that scraped and clanked metallically stood up on its back legs and rolled an enormous fiery mass like a planet ablaze ahead of itself, using its front legs. Its claws struck sparks off the flinty stone of the riverbank.
“The sun boat of Ra has now transformed into the scarab beetle Khepri, rolling the sun ahead of himself, just as the scarab beetle rolls a ball of dung along the ground. Khepri is the ancient Egyptian symbol of rebirth. He’s rolling the sun to the eastern horizon to begin the new day...”

(Excerpt from VIRTUAL ETERNITY.)

Eight very different people are chosen to road test ‘VIRTUAL ETERNITY’, an ancient Egyptian virtual reality simulator housed in a complex on the estate of tech billionaire Brandon Viking, a lifelong lover of Egypt’s past.
Each wears a tag – Sage, Robber, Scribe, Prophetess, Gamer, Soldier, Priest, and Neophyte. They must race through the twelve hours and zones of the ancient Egyptian underworld night to reach the end of the journey before dawn, but only if they can survive hideous dangers along the way.
Then, shockingly, a journeyer is killed... really killed, it seems.
They are in a race against time and a struggle against the guardians and monsters of the underworld as well as against each other.
Enthralling adventure novella that hits the ground running.
‘VIRTUAL ETERNITY – A journey through ancient Egypt’s underworld - shocking reality, or deadly Virtual Reality?