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MAMELON: a fantasy novel by Roger N. Taber
Sorry, I have not kept to the start date
for a new serial owing to concerns about my prostate cancer, now relegated to a
let’s-just-wait-and-see basket.
I love fantasy fiction so couldn’t resist
trying it out for myself. It is very experimental (for me) but I hope some
readers will enjoy it. A complete (unpublished) novel, it is also Book 1 of what I originally planned
as a trilogy. (Oh, but such are the well-laid plans of mice, men and wannabe
writers! LOL) If the serial is well supported by blog readers, I will publish it in e-format at a later date.
Meanwhile, I am working on Redemption, Book Three of my trilogy Blasphemy-Sacrilege-Redemption and will
serialise it on the blog once finished. (Feedback on Blasphemy and Sacrilege previously serialised on the blog has been sufficiently encouraging to motivate
me.)
Chapter One of Mamelon will appear on Friday, Jan 11th and I will post
a separate glossary of terms on Thursday Jan 10th which can be easily
accessed as the story proceeds.
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MAMELON: a fantasy novel by Roger N. Taber
BOOK 1: THE
DYING PLANET: (approx 100,000 words)
Synopsis:
Thousands of
years before the story begins, the planet Earth was struck by a meteor and
parts were hurled into space. One such
part was saved from oblivion by the druid, Ca-an, re-directed into a parallel
orbit in a parallel time and called Mamelon.
In a Kent suburb at the start of the 21st
century, GAIL WRIGHT and husband TIM live with their two sons, 18 year-old MICK
and his brother PETE aged thirteen. Their new next-door neighbours are BETHANY
MARTIN, Mick’s girlfriend, and her deaf father. Unknown to anyone, least of all
the Wright brothers, Gail and Tim have their roots in Mamelon where Gail was
once Galia, consort to Mamelon’s ruler, Michal the Great, and Tim was Timon, a
Holy Seer.
When Mamelon is threatened with extinction,
it is to the mother world that its inhabitants turn for aid and rescue. Mick,
Pete and Beth are lured to the dying planet by the wiles of an accident-prone
magician called RIKKI. Given to understand that the only way back to Tunbridge
Wells, as well as the only hope of saving the planet, lies in the Purple
Mountains, the trio resolve to journey there but are split up during an attack
by krills; these are scaly creatures, half man-half beast, led by RADIK, an old
enemy of Mamelon and lackey to RAGUND, the Dark Mage. Radik is but one of many enemies the trio
will encounter, but they make some good friends too. Apart from Rikki, there is
MULAC, surly member of the Nu-gen, a tribe of nomads considered lowest of the
low but to whom Beth is involuntarily drawn. Elves, too, have a place as the
story unfolds.
Past and present become interwoven and
interdependent as the three young people become embroiled with forces of light
and dark, good and evil. Subsequently, they must learn to get by on the
strength of native instinct and the acquisition of survival skills, the like of
which no ordinary person could have summoned in his or her wildest
imagination. It is their very extraordinariness
that brings both tragedy and triumph to the Wrights and Bethany.
Watched over, even aided sometimes by their
anxious, earthbound parents, the Wright brothers and Bethany are reunited -
only to have the various warring factions on Mamelon split them up yet again.
Not the least of these, rages between Ragund and the druid, ASTOR. Between past
and present, leaning on an old magic for their survival, the two combatants
fight it out.
The three young people are finally brought
together just in time to make their own way back to the 21st
century. Even so, the pull of Mamelon proves hard for them to resist.
Gail and Tim Wright face a similar dilemma.
Do they just sit back and let Mamelon die or risk their own lives and those of
their children
Copyright Roger N, Taber c2004; 2013
Note: Book
Two: The Purple Mountains is planned.
