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Sunday, November 27, 2016
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?
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’
“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’
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
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."
"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."
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?
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.
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.
Amazon Kindle and paperback |
The ancient EGYPTIAN civilization and technology “SPIKE” - a monumental enigma
What came to spark the stratospheric rise of ancient Egyptian civilization? |
From a land and age of mysteries, this for me
is still the greatest enigma of all.
How did an ancient agrarian society
suddenly flower into technological mastery – the Egyptian dynastic civilization suddenly arriving
fully formed it seems, employing advanced writing, architecture and sculpture, producing the first
great buildings in stone, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, mummification...
Like
my fictional alternative Egyptologist Anson Hunter, I am not a great fan of
Atlantean influencers. Is the 'spike' the most intriguing mystery of all? |
If they existed, the Egyptians, assiduous
record keepers, were exceedingly ungrateful about their benefactors, leaving not a
jot of thanks.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
An Egyptologist with a bow, a missing arrow, a searching dog... 'The SARCOPHAGUS'
'Snakeback', the archaeologist's pet Rhodesian Ridgeback or African Lion Dog |
Excerpt from the Egyptian mystery adventure "The SARCOPHAGUS":
Wilson Ryder bent his bow and shot an arrow into the
desert and watched it shrink in the sky. Snakeback ran after it and he
followed. The dog ran on. He hurried after it. How far had the arrow
traveled?
They came to the spot where he was sure the arrow must have fallen.
Snakeback was standing on the spot, looking puzzled.
Ryder looked ahead and saw a dark-haired girl holding his
arrow, felt the challenge of her stare, then watched her walk away from him,
carrying it to the cliffs.
She climbed the rocky cliff path to the tomb
entrance.
She disappeared into the dark mouth
of the tomb. Ryder and Snakeback followed...
Neith, Egyptian Mistress of the Bow and Ruler of Arrows |
Built to hunt lions and run all day without a drink, the Ridgeback with a snake of raised fur on its back. |
AMAZON KINDLE |
Monday, November 7, 2016
What does fiction's alternative Egyptologist make of alien theories?
“YOU WANT me to what?” Anson Hunter said at the meeting.
“Help us find what appears to be an ancient weapon,” she
said.
“Ancient weapon?”
“I know it sounds incredible,” the academic said.
“It does, even in my alternative, parallel universe.”
“Yet, astonishingly, this is what our authorities have
been forced to consider.”
“You’re going to have to unpack that a bit,” he said.
The man in the big blue suit, who bulked up the small
meeting table, and who sat flanked by young, careful-faced men, spoke up.
“Very few of us believe in remote killing, of the kind
you’ve been describing, anyway, but we all believe in remote listening. We have
intelligence that something ancient, called ‘the mother of revenge’ is being
levelled against our country from the land of the Nile.”
“Maybe it’s a pharaonic submarine,” Anson said
helpfully.
“Why not?” Dr Melinda Skilling said with a mocking
smile, “some alternative theorists seem willing to believe that the ancient
Egyptians possessed helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and armoured tanks, but
submarines probably weren’t of much use in the shallower reaches of the Nile.”
This Egyptologist could dig in more ways than one, he
observed.
He understood her allusion.
“You mean those mysterious symbols under a lintel in
the Temple of Osiris in Abydos that seem to show an arsenal of modern weapons?”
he said. “I may be alternative, but I’m not a crank. Nor am I a fan of aliens,
or of pyramid and sphinx builders from Atlantis, although I like the way they
exasperate Egyptologists. I’m sure there’s a more mundane explanation for the
symbols and so I’ll leave that to you.”
“I don’t do mundane, Anson. I’d rather be working on
the exhibition I’m curating than doing mundane, but the intelligence wires are
humming and it’s apparently alarmed our government enough to request
professional advice.”
“Then why ask me?”
“You’re special, not only because of your grasp of
arcane Egyptian knowledge and practice, but because of your standpoint. I must
confess that mainstream academics, restrained by what has been termed the
‘agnostic reflex’, are somewhat in the position of outsiders looking in,
careful to keep an objective distance from Egyptian religion, mystical texts
and esoteric practices. You, on the other hand, are a phenomenologist, one who
believes that you must grant value and credibility to the sacred and engage
with it experientially in order to appreciate it fully. I have a certain
sympathy for that position.”
A certain sympathy. Was she trying to be nice?
Perhaps. She’d certainly earned points from him for her candour.
But the blunt instrument in the big blue suit didn’t
try for points. His words came down on Anson like a mallet.
“Frankly, to many people you’re just a wild theorist.
And that gives you a lot more freedom to operate in. Nobody listens to you -
and nobody watches you. We can hide behind you.”
Paperback and Kindle #1 in the series |
Friday, November 4, 2016
PRE-TEEN ancient Egypt fiction - Kindle their imaginations
Kindle mystery and action adventures for pre-teens (under ROY POND) on AMAZON |
IMHOTEP means ‘he comes in peace’... a bit ‘alien sounding’?
Advanced genius who built Egypt's first ever pyramid - the step pyramid |
(excerpt)
The Ufologist said. "Some are convinced that Imhotep was the original ancient alien. Don’t you think that
there is something a bit alien about the imp-like figures of Imhotep in the
world’s museums, showing him as a tiny sage seated on a chair with a scroll
across his knee and his elongated skull extruded inside a skullcap? Then there
is the curious meaning of his name. Imhotep means ‘The one who comes in peace.’
Isn’t that canonically the message communicated by friendly, and sometimes
deceptive, visitors from the stars, in countless science fiction stories and
movies… ‘we come in peace’?”
"EGYPT EYES: A groundbreaking mystery thriller novel featuring the blogs and photos of renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter.
With his luminous intelligence,
thousands of years ahead of his time, Imhotep must have appeared as a being who had dropped out of the sky to early
generations… designer and builder of the first great monument in stone, the
step pyramid, deified after his death and revered by the later Greeks and
Romans.
All this and Imhotep fathered medicine, was considered a wizard, governed
as Vizier and held high sacred office...
It was also said that Imhotep’s father was the creator
god Ptah and his mother was the sky goddess Nut... How I imagine Imhotep |
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Mysterious eyes of ancient Egypt...
What secret had the satellite eye in the sky seen under Egypt's sands? |
Dr
Constance Somers, space archaeologist, once used satellite eyes in the
sky to explore Egypt's hidden treasures. Now Anson Hunter was to be her
eyes on the ground... but what is her dangerous secret?
"Egypt Eyes" - thriller fiction with Egyptian photos and a renegade archaeologist's blog; an adventure with a difference.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
'THE POISON QUEEN' Did Cleopatra really die...?
Now fiction on AMAZON Kindle |
Did Cleopatra really die 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
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