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The Crown: Ascension
The Crown: Ascension
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In the old days, people of the world believed that lineage should be traced from the female line. There could always be questions about who fathered a child, but rarely questions about who the mother was. Transfer of lands and titles also came to be done this way -- the king wielded power, but the queen was the source of it -- until the advent of the "modern world."

Sometime around 6,500 BC a very special woman was born, one who stopped aging at twenty-two and has been alive ever since. Possessing the strength of seven men and senses far more perceptive than average man, she also possessed a love that was more than that of anyone else in the world. Anyone she fell in love with became a god among men -- his voice would be able to sway people's wills, his fist like a thunderbolt, gravity a mere intellectual conceit he could ignore. This love was The Crown, a token of her devotion in the form of power, and these days she calls herself Tonya Fitzgerald.

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PublisherHannibal Tabu
Release dateSep 27, 2012
ISBN9781301995097
The Crown: Ascension
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Hannibal Tabu

Born in Rockford, Illinois; raised in Memphis, Tennessee; matriculated in Tacoma, Washington and broadcasting live from Los Angeles, Hannibal Tabu is a writer, a brother, a husband, a misanthrope, a son, an emcee, an uncle, a poet, a father, a designer, a nephew, a romantic, a storyteller, and by god, a fan. He spent more than fifteen years doing the journalist thing for Vibe, Slave Trade, MTV Online, Rap Pages, America Online, the Los Angeles Sentinel, Spinnerrack.com, Speak and The Source. Hannibal has worked as a web designer/producer/project manager and graphic artist for American Honda, eHobbies.com, Quicken.com, Express.com, the California Association of REALTORS, Disney Channel, NextPlanetOver.com, L.A. Care Health Plan, Toyota Motor Sales, Kaiser Permanente, California Bank & Trust and many more. As a poet, Hannibal has been published in THE DRUMMING BETWEEN US, (sic) Vice Verse, DRUMVOICES REVUE, MULTIVERSE, VOICES FROM LEIMERT PARK (both volumes) and other anthologies, as well as being author of the collection BORN BENEATH AN ANGRY STAR and co-author of FLIGHT MANUAL. As a novelist, he's written THE CROWN: ASCENSION and FARAWAY (both available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble & Smashwords) and the upcoming sci fi political thriller ROGUE NATION. He's the winner of the 2012 Top Cow Talent Hunt and won the 2018-2019 Cultural Trailblazer Award from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. His prose fiction writing includes the novellas WASO: WILL TO POWER and WASO: GATHERING WIND for Stranger Comics and short stories in anthologies from MV Media including DARK UNIVERSE; THE BRIGHT EMPIRE, STEAMFUNK! and BLACK POWER: THE SUPERHERO ANTHOLOGY. In comic books, Hannibal has written PROJECT WILDFIRE for Legends Press; MENTHU for Hometown Productions; FATHOM, SOULFIRE, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT IRIS and ASPEN UNIVERSE SOURCEBOOKS for Aspen Comics; TIME CORPS, SCOUNDREL and IRRATIONAL NUMBERS for Wunderman Comics; was co-writer of an issue of WATSON AND HOLMES (alongside 2 GUNS writer Steven Grant) for New Paradigm Studios and had a short story in the Ringo Award-winning, Eisner Award-nominated anthology MINE! A CELEBRATION OF LIBERTY AND FREEDOM FOR ALL Planned Parenthood benefit anthology alongside Paul Levitz, Neil Gaiman, Ann Nocenti and many other notable talents. Hannibal also wrote a story featuring DC Comics characters for the anthology RICANSTRUCTION: REMINISCING AND REBUILDING PUERTO RICO...

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