Monday, December 30, 2019

Update Update: EGYPT continues its 'ownership' of SPACE... in science... and science fiction...

....AND NOW CHEOPS
CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite) - a European space telescope to determine the size of known extrasolar planets, which will allow the estimation of their mass, density, composition and their formation. Launched on 18 December 2019


AND...

MORE EGYPT IN SPACE 

What is it about science and science fiction and 'mysterious ancient Egypt'?
In recent news headlines is the asteroid 'Bennu'...  See link  http://bit.ly/2ZAA1DO


Bennu asteroid (Wikipedia)
Named after the Bennu, the ancient Egyptian mythological bird associated with the Sun, creation, and rebirth and has "a cumulative 1-in-2,700 chance of impacting Earth between 2175 and 2199. " 
It's yet another Nilotically named space object in a string of Egypt names as long as a meteorite's tail. 

It follows on from this story about Apophis...


"A 1,110-foot-wide asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos will fly past Earth in 2029 within the distance of some orbiting spacecraft, according to reports." (See  story in link)

This Egyptian nomenclature continues a powerful and continued marriage of Egypt, space and even satellite technology.
Look at the proliferation of ancient Egyptian names used in the space field. From asteroids to landers. Names like Philae, Osiris-Rex, Rosetta and of course Apophis...

Echoing Ra, the satellite rides in a sun-synchronous orbit
Excerpt from the Anson Hunter Egyptian adventure series:-

Gleaming like the golden barque of Ra", a satellite probes the shadowy secrets of ancient Egypt. Anson Hunter fiction series.

“This is a new view of Egypt,” he said. “Thanks to satellite technology.”

He clicked on a photograph of a satellite in space.

“This is a satellite gazing down on Egypt from an altitude of 570 kilometres. It gleams in the heavens like the golden barque of the sun god Ra, powered by sails in the form of outspread solar panels. Gold covers its 1.4-ton body like the flesh of the gods - a skin of gold-coated Mylar. Pure, imperishable gold not only protects it from corrosion on the outside. The sacred metal also forms its veins and nerves in gold wires and gold-plated electronic circuits and contacts for switches, relays and connectors.

“Echoing Ra, the satellite rides in a sun-synchronous orbit, and, from its inclination of 98 degrees, it sees Egypt below, in particular our focus for today, the most ancient burial ground said to be the legendary burial place of the Egyptian god of the dead, Osiris, and birthplace of the cult of death and resurrection. But unlike Ra in his other form as Aton the sun disk, the satellite does not send down rays ending in little beneficent hands to touch the land. Instead it sends a series of radio wave pulses at the rate of 1,700 per second to probe the density of objects on the ground and beneath the dry sand, which it collects in a backscatter of echoes. Then it ponders this knowledge, analyses it and communicates it to mankind through visions seen on a screen.

“It sees stone temples, chapels, mud-brick enclosures, boat graves – a fleet of fourteen 23-metre long boats marooned in an ocean of desert. It sees mounds of broken pottery, spoil heaps, the spectral signatures of tombs of the earliest kings...”
Egypt sci-fi fantasy
Egypt space archaeology thriller
'Virtual Egypt' & 'Egypt Jump
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Saturday, December 21, 2019

DIFFERENT Mysterious Settings - "MYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIA FICTION" video

Roy Lester Pond (non-Egypt) mystery fiction


AND "LIGHTNING RIDGE - Spectre of the Black Opal (sci-fi outback fantasy)
AMAZON PAPERBACK AND KINDLE

Friday, December 20, 2019

TRILOGY in one Edition - "THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS"

AT AMAZON


3 Egyptian mythology-driven mystery thrillers set in the modern day, but with a twist of the ancient unknown.
A unique investigative team of Jennefer, a museum curator, and Jon a London antiquities detective - two very different people who work in 'kindred professions'... The X-Files meets 'The Mummy'...
- THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS
A mummy named Isis is taken to a hospital for a non-invasive imaging scan… so begins a mystery and a string of deaths.
An ancient cycle unfolds in modern day London - and a search for eternal love.
Can Jennefer, a young trainee museum curator and Jon, a police antiquities unit detective, stop the killings in time before a terrible culmination of events?

- THE OBELISK PROPHECY One Egyptian obelisk is the key to saving civilization

- THE EGYPTIAN CROCODILE CURSE An Egypt exhibition, a series of mythological murders

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Favourite Egypt fiction categories, modern, ancient?


Fiction that "deserves a far wider audience than the Egyptology community" one reviewer said about THE SMITING TEXTS. 


But is it possible to write genre- and category-busting Egyptian fiction?


What categories do you prefer?



1. DO YOU like ancient Egypt history and myth fiction? (khepesh-and-sandles)




"Roy Lester Pond joins my favourite Egypt authors like Christian Jacq" - Goodreads (The Ra Virus)

2. DO YOU like archaeological adventure thriller fiction set against the backdrop of Egypt’s past? (Indiana Jones)
“A very enjoyable read which fans of Indiana Jones would do well to dive into.”






3. DO YOU like mythology-driven Egyptian mystery fiction?





4. DO YOU like ancient Egypt with science, sci-fi and time-travel?

"Fans of the Stargate franchise would (also) do well to dive in..."


5. DO YOU like pre-dynastic, mythic fiction about the age of gods, demigods and heroes?
"Great reading..."(*****Amazon US)


6. DO YOU like ancient Egyptian crime and mystery fiction?
 



 

















7. DO YOU like ancient Egyptian esoteric fiction?
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8. DO YOU like ancient Egypt 'lost queen/lost realm' fiction?



9. DO YOU like ancient Egypt 'romance and historical' fiction?


10. DO YOU like ancient Egypt fiction with a youthful flavour?

(Young fiction)

OR... DO YOU perhaps like a change and a choice of all genres to suit your reading mood?

Check out the Roy Lester Pond Egypt fiction collection - probably the largest choice of Egypt fiction titles by a single author.


Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Adventure reads GOING VIRAL



2 fast-moving 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


 


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