The Gaean Enchantment: Odyssian Cycle, #1
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The world is going through a Time of Change where science has failed and Gaean earth magic is the new way in which life and survival now work. Oregon archaeologist Thomas and his mage wife Mary embark on a cross-country drive to Virginia to save his three children from the chaos of social breakdown, as national unity disintegrates and local NeoMob or drug Syndicate bosses take over. And Evil incarnate follows them. But ancient gods, goddesses, sacred mountains, magical groves and totem animals are also awakening, and they will have much to say about the new shape of the world that humans thought they controlled. A great novel for readers of post-apocalyptic futures, contemporary fantasy, quest adventures, Gaean earth magic, Spirit World stories, Greek mythology, and romance--there are two love stories in this 125,000 word novel.
T. Jackson King
T. Jackson King (Tom) is a professional archaeologist and journalist. He writes hard science fiction, anthropological scifi, dark fantasy/horror and contemporary fantasy/magic realism--but that didn't begin until he was 38. Before then, college years spent in Paris and in Tokyo led Tom into antiwar activism, hanging out with some Japanese hippies and learning how often governments lie to their citizens. The latter lesson led him and a college buddy to publish the Shinjuku Sutra English language underground tabloid in Japan in 1967. That was followed by helping shut down the UT Knoxville campus in 1968 and a bus trip to Washington D.C. for the Second March on Washington where thousands demanded an end to the Vietnam War. Temporary sanity returned when Tom worked in a radiocarbon lab at UC Riverside and earned an MA degree in archaeology from UCLA. His interests in ancient history, ancient cultures and journalism got him several government agency jobs that paid the bills, led him to roam the raw landscape of the Western United States, and helped him raise three kids. A funny thing happened on the way to normality. By the time he was 38 and doing federal arky work in Colorado, Tom's first novel STAR TRADERS was a stage play in his head that wouldn't go away. So he wrote it down. It got rejected. His next novel was published as RETREAD SHOP (Warner Books, 1988). It was off to the writing races and Tom's many voyages of imaginative discovery have led to 23 published novels, a book of poetry, and a conviction that when humans reach the stars, we will find them crowded with space-going aliens. We will be the New Kids On The Block. This theme appears in much of Tom's short fiction and novel writing. Tom lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. His other writings can be viewed at http://www.tjacksonking.com.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tom Jackson King has written a wonderful book of magik, goddesses, shamans and how people deal with radical change to the planet.Although he obviously did extensive research, it was clear to me that he has an innate ‘knowing’ of magik and the ways of nature.Essentially, it is a journey both internal and external with the sole purpose of him rescuing his children. Of him overcoming his past demons and stepping into his true power. His love and for his wife Mary throughout gladdened my heart. I loved the honor that was paid to Gaea throughout and to the spirit animals. His detail and wonderful descriptions of places and events took me into the story to experience as though I was a part of it. Well Done