Tuesday, December 27, 2016

EGYPT ON iPAD adventure mystery fiction FOR PRE-TEENS...

Little Cousin Harry is really weird, but he is family, so Josh and Amy decide to play along with him. They join Harry in playing a series of totally spooky ancient Egypt computer games.
Trouble is, Harry's games become more and more real and dangers start to leak out of the games into real life and into their lives.
The popular Egypt series - now available in one monster book of three adventures.


 Amazon Customer:
“This book is great! This book had me spooked until the very end. I advise against reading it at night unless you're practically fearless.It makes you want to read until the very last word. I don't scare easily, but this book managed to scare me pretty bad. Plus, it's one of those books that you can read and re-read again and again. It's a great, scary book, that pulls you right into the action and doesn't let you out until you finish it. I recommend it to anyone that likes to be scared.”

Book 2 Who knows the secret of... THE MUMMY'S TOMB (USA) (Or 'The Mummy Tomb Hunt' (Australia)

Book 3 'The Mummy Rescue Mission' (Australia)


***** 5 star
“I literally consumed those three books when I read them! I sat and read the books in two days, and even when I wasn't reading them I was thinking about them. Though from memory I distinctly remember The Mummy Monster Game being my favourite, it's safe to say when I read them this time, the last in the series, The Mummy Rescue Mission was my favourite - I could literally feel the desperation Harry, Amy and Harry felt in trying to save Aunt Jillian. I had to keep reading at such a fast pace as though I had to keep up! I like the idea of mixing video games with Egyptology, being that both those things interest me. I'm glad I finally got my hands on these books…. now I can read them as often as I like.”
Carli
Fantasy adventure fiction (based on a fact)
"One terrific story..." -  Editor-at-Large, Children's Books, New York.

*****5 stars "Great Egyptian imagery"- Goodreads reader


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See what over a dozen young 'Goodreaders' said in GOODREADS:-

Note: fiction for young readers under author name ROY POND
(Adult fiction appears under ROY LESTER POND)

Monday, December 26, 2016

2 VIRUS novels about meteorite pathogens, 'THE RA VIRUS' and 'THE HERO VIRUS'

Interesting 'Big Think' article - a validation for two new novels 
 with an SF flavour


  2 novels about meteorite pathogens, 'THE RA VIRUS' and 'THE HERO VIRUS'

A pair of virus pandemic novels about meteorite pathogens - one set in Egypt, the other Australia

Here are two very different novels featuring mystery pathogens that both have an extraordinary impact on humankind.

One story is set in ancient Egypt in my time travel novel 'THE RA VIRUS: TEXT MESSAGES FROM ETERNITY', where an epidemiologist from today finds himself trapped in an Egypt during a reign of pestilence. An 11th Plague of Egypt?

Did an obelisk shaped, oriented meteorite bring a virus to ancient Egypt, sent by a vengeful god Ra? Can Lucas Burrows save the people and his archaeologist love Giulietta who is digging at a contaminated site in the future?

The other novel is based in the mysterious Australian outback.
Showers of meteorites bring a space virus with a starting effect in 'THE HERO VIRUS'. 

The virus suppresses the cautionary impulse of fear in the amygdala of the human brain, creating reckless courage... and world chaos.

THE RA VIRUS
THE HERO VIRUS

Check them out on Amazon Kindle


 

World Health Org epidemiologist finds himself in ancient Egypt during plagues of Akhenaten and Amenhotep III period..



Was there an 11th Plague -  a space virus sent by a vengeful Ra? (Amazon Kindle)



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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Can a solitary bowman hunt down Egypt's Female Destroyer of Humankind?





A Mythic Novella.


Author’s note: This story first appeared as a tale within a novel in the archaeological adventure thriller ‘The Smiting Texts’, but is released here in a separate edition for lovers of mythology and ancient romance.

“This tale of an ancient hunter's fate to recapture the goddess of devastation in order to save Egypt is particularly beautiful. Wonderfully clever and original.” THE TRUTH ABOUT BOOKS
“Great reading”  5 ***** stars, AMAZON US

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Stretch back for an ancient Egyptian "archaeological thriller binge read”

Anson Hunter alternative Egyptologist series: "Brings ancient Egypt compellingly to life" 

UPDATE:
Binge on the 1st 3 books in one volume
The series: THE SMITING TEXTS
HATHOR'S HOLOCAUST
THE IBIS APOCALYPSE
HIDDEN EGYPT The Night of Anubis
EGYPT EYES
THE FORBIDDEN GLYPHS
THE GOD DIG
ARTEFACT
DEATH in Egypt LIVE


Plus an Anson Hunter novella
THE GIRL and the GOD DOG


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Sunday, December 18, 2016

'A spinning cylinder curved around the mummy’s head like a night sky arching over Egypt.'


'The Egyptian Mythology Murders'.


The radiation scan - at a dose lethal for the living - blasted through her linen windings. It was like a penetration of sunlight warming the bones after the ache of the desert night.
The machine hummed. A spinning cylinder curved around the mummy’s head like a night sky arching over Egypt.
The sand-dry cells of the body, spread out in an undulating landscape on the CT tray, stirred in a sudden breath.
Life! Resurgent life! It eddied, thickened, mounted in force, blowing, gusting, then blasting through the mummy like a desert sand storm...

Fiction on Amazon Kindle

Monday, December 12, 2016

UPDATE: MUMMIES EXHIBITION REPORT. A delight, yet the modern guilt of the zoo hangs around today’s exhibitionism



The moral dilemma - and delight - of mummies


The Egyptians called their wrapped and mummified dead ‘The Helpless Ones.’



Carry that thought with you as you step with me into the darkness of an exhibition area, following dim passages like a tomb.



A pre-emptive video greets you as you stand in the company of fellow visitors.



The new Egyptian Mummies Exhibition at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum is all about science and real lives, you are informed. Modern, non-invasive CT technology does not disturb the sanctity of the dead.

We've come a long way from this
Just a twist of the knob on a display shows what lies beneath.


And yet...

A little while later, as I gaze down at the ancient Egyptian chantress Tamut, (and wonder if I should pry into her personal medical scans, available on a display) I can’t help feeling a twinge of guilt.


Is the modern technology of CT medical imaging, like Superman’s X-ray vision, any less invasive and voyeuristic than ripping off a lady’s clothing to see what’s underneath?



The mummies behind the glass are as helpless as animals behind bars.



Of course we love to peek at mummies. Just as we do at the magical creatures inside zoo enclosures. Both are wildly popular.



Yet both are relics of a grand age of imperialism over nature, history and culture.



Today, zoos and museums (with mummies) are both in the business of preservation. 



Themselves included.



The current is running against them. Which is a shame, because I like anything that popularises ancient Egypt (and that showcases our precious wildlife).



In fact, I feel a little churlish even thinking these thoughts because the latest exhibition is very very good and yes, quite sensitively handled.



It is also highly atmospheric.



The Egyptian authorities have tended to criticise the British Museum in the past for its choice of moody lighting in exhibitions, but I’m all for mystery. Let's avoid the fairground.



So go see it - and enjoy some guilty pleasure. 

There are lots of wonderful things to see besides the mummies.

'Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives' runs until 25th April, 2017




It's not just the mummies that revivify ancient lives for the beholder, but also little gems like these

Sunday, December 11, 2016

THE MUMMIES ARE HERE : New World Premiere Egyptian Exhibition

Looking forward to a mummy fix visit tomorrow - last time I saw some of these guys was at the BM in London
I do love an Egyptian Exhibition.

And I'll try not to think of my latest novel while I'm there tomorrow (The Egyptian Crocodile Curse) 



Wednesday, December 7, 2016

A team of investigators brought blindfolded to a site. Then the darkness turns deadly.

AMAZON

Did Cleopatra really die in ancient Alexandria as history tells?
What if ‘the queen of poisons’ took a brew (like Shakespeare's Juliet) that merely gave her the ‘borrow’d likeness of shrunk death’?
Revelation, mythology and ancient evil in a startling adventure.
A group of mysteriously chosen investigators is brought together and driven blindfolded in Land Cruisers to a lost site in Egypt…
An historical fantasy writer, a young female Egyptologist, a cold-case detective, a documentary film-maker, an historical scholar…
Then the darkness turns deadly.
The sanctuary of an immortal queen.
Mortal dangers for those who penetrate its secrets

Thursday, November 24, 2016

An ancient Egyptian false door, a vanished archaeology team member. TEXT MESSAGES FROM ETERNITY




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An ancient Egyptian false door, an impossible warning from a vanished archaeology team member.
Is missing archaeology team member Lucas Burrows trapped in Egypt’s ancient past during an age of terror – and sending warning messages to today through the archaeological layers of time?
‘WARNING! ANCIENT GLOBAL THREAT…’ the scratched graffiti message appears in a newly found Egyptian tomb, along with a modern biohazard symbol.
Who sent it?
What mysterious plague has hit the population of Egypt in the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his young co-regent, the sun-struck Akhenaten? Why is it seen as a judgement by the angry sun god Ra?
Lucas, a physician and World Health Organisation expert on pandemics, must find its source and the antidote in time to save the ancient past and the future.
Especially when his lover, the lustrous Italian-born Egyptologist Giulietta, is exposed to the deadly contagion. Can he warn her in time and save her - and can they ever hope to be reunited?



“Roy Lester Pond joins my favourite Egypt authors like Christian Jacq.”
“A furious pace keeps the reader engrossed.”

‘TEXT MESSAGES FROM ETERNITY’ expands ‘THE RA VIRUS’ with a new additional Part 2 in the story ‘THE ATEN SCOURGE’


EGYPT SAFER to go than stay home? Whet your appetite with some mysterious Egypt fiction here...


Wednesday, November 23, 2016

‘Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad...’ Madly brave. FREE. THE HERO VIRUS

FREE for 3 DAYS A non-Egypt apocalyptic novel set in Australia's outback. Kindle

THE HERO VIRUS "5 stars for being so different from other apocalypse books." GOODREADS

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Feb 14, 2016 Cherye elliott rated it it was amazing
Hero Virus

"What an interesting story. Reading their blogs and each viewpoint was unique. I felt like I was with them on their journey.

5 stars for being so different from other apocalypse books."

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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Saturday, November 12, 2016

The MUMMIES ARE COMING for children (and adults)

Nigel-Fletcher Jones cites another example of Mummymania with a new children's picture book 'How I became a Mummy' that tackles the human side of mummies... Looks like gruesome fun.

But it's not the first.

The humanising movement is well under way with 'The Princess Who Lost her Scroll of the Dead' - a pre-teen novel with photos of artefacts. 

A young princess in the tomb wakes up to find that a royal scribe has tricked her and replaced her priceless Book of the Dead with an empty rolled up scroll.  How will she negotiate the twists and turns and dangerous challenges of the underworld without the protective spells  in her magical 'passport' to eternity?

Amazon Kindle and paperback

And of course the 'humanised mummy' is already here for adults
in the story of a mysterious female mummy - the adult novel "THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS" where we can't help rooting for the mummy in spite of the chaos she is causing.

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