The Ancients of Earth Series

"Seriously one of the greatest things I've ever read." - - Wil Wheaton In 50 hours, the world as we know it will end! Like a celestial alarm clock, our Sun is about to enter a cycle of giant solar storms that will short circuit our planet's magnetic field. Overwhelmed into a weakened discontinuous state, the natural protection of the Earth will take two centuries to fully regenerate. The solar storm damage will be so great, it will decimate life on Earth and destroy our modern technological civilization. It could drive us close to extinction... again. It has happened before, but it was long before humans had writing. The cycle is so long, and the magnetic field event occurs for such a short time frame, very little geological evidence is left after. There is no way we could know it was coming. Now it will occur again in 50 hours. Amid this imminent catastrophe is The God In The Clear Rock, a mysterious ancient artifact from a lost civilization of giants. She is somehow connected to the series of deadly solar storms beginning to hit earth. And she has a secret. Fast-paced scenes jump across centuries and millennia of time as the mystery of The God In The Clear Rock deepens. Unforgettable characters come together over the years and are suddenly thrust into an unknown countdown in a race against the sun. The God in The Clear Rock has everything you could want in an epic adventure story – ancient civilizations, giant humans, high technology, military combat, artificial intelligence, and a timeline that covers 78 millennia. Engaging, imaginative, and believable writing will drag you into the intrigue and drama as it begins to unfold across the planet. First in a six-book series covering the entire 50 hour countdown to the end, The God in The Clear Rock presents the initial eight and a half hours. But 78,000 years of tragic human history lead up to this first exciting book. The story blends the hour-by-hour style of the TV drama ‘24’ and the intelligent storytelling of Asimov with the twisted plots of George R.R. Martin. It’s filled with science, technology, history and adventure, plus a cliff-hanger ending that will have fans jumping into the second book in the series.

In 41 hours, the world as we know it will end... Like it has done every twenty-six millennia, the magnetic field of the earth is about to be short-circuited by a series of massive solar storms, which will destroy our modern technological society virtually overnight. It will take the planet two centuries before the natural protective magnetic field will build back up to full strength. While it is weakened, the surface of the earth will be scorched by the sun and daylight will become dangerous to all life. The first wave of storms and destruction has already begun, but the only people who have the means to help, aren’t aware of the impending disaster. And the only clue to when the disaster will occur is a mysterious clear rock locked in a black plastic case. New characters and fresh dangers arrive building the mystery and intrigue; all while the deadline approaches and the world unknowingly counts down to its doom. THE HOLE IN THE MAGIC SHIELD continues with the unforgettable story and extraordinary characters from THE GOD IN THE CLEAR ROCK. Filled with more epic adventure, mystery, high-tech, science, and intrigue than the first fast-paced thriller, the story starts exactly where the last one stopped. Over the following 9 hours, out of only 41 hours left in the world, intertwined wheels of action and new people are set in motion. THE HOLE IN THE MAGIC SHIELD blends the counting-by-hour style of the TV drama ‘24’ with the intensely complex, larger-than-life characters and adventure driven plots of Clive Cussler in a page-turner that’s guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. As the intricate story begins to twist and turn, fans will relish the cliffhanger maddening mystery and be left scrambling to pick up book three.

In 32 hours, the world as we know it will end! The magnetic field of the earth is about to fail because of a series of gigantic solar storms, which come in a 26,000 year cycle. When that happens, solar radiation will cause widespread infertility among all land animals, including us. As the storms begin causing dramatic destruction that could lead to the downfall of our technological civilization, a mysterious clue about the danger appears on an ancient artifact. While the countdown continues, major characters start coming together for the first time, building dark intrigue, ancient prophesy and cutting-edge high-technology into a series of connected events leading to the end of the world – unless it can be stopped. A mysterious consciousness and presence inside the only clue about what is happening may be the only means of preventing the coming disaster. But time is running out and the chaos has already begun. THE EMPTY EGGS OF BURNING LIGHT continues the exciting saga from THE HOLE IN THE MAGIC SHIELD. A hard science fiction tale so real some readers can’t tell it’s fiction, the third fast-paced thriller picks up the minute the last one stopped. The next 8.25 hours, out of only 32 hours left in the world, begin to add new characters and plots as events trigger a cascade of cause and effect. The hour-by-hour style of the modern timeline combines with larger than life characters and historical fact in a story you can’t put down. The twisted mystery continues to dig deeper until a cliff-hanger ending guaranteed to make readers scream in anticipation for the next installment. But the story is only half over...

In 24 hours, the world as we know it will end... A 26,000 year cycle of gigantic solar storms is about to begin. The size and destructive power of these storms will eclipse anything in recorded history by an order of magnitude. The monster magnetic pulses that accompany these massive solar storms have already begun to overwhelm the magnetic field of the Earth; causing it to fall so far in strength, it’s effectively gone in places. Intense radiation and charged particles from the first wave of solar storms have already begun the irreversible destruction of almost all the LEO satellites in orbit. Now the debris is causing dangerous interference with electronic devices on the ground. As the consequences of the first stages of the coming deadly storms begin to create a complex web of intrigue and action, a mysterious and ancient artifact, which is somehow connected to the solar cycles, manages to become more of a threat to the future of mankind than the impending disaster. A high-speed adrenaline filled series of events unfold leading to non-stop action in a race against the clock to save mankind. The Wrath of the Invisible Sword is the sequel to the exciting and action filled, The Empty Eggs of Burning Light. The fourth book in the epic sci-fi Ancients of Earth Series starts at the exact scene the last novel ended. But now there are only 24 hours left before the killer storms arrive to decimate the planet. Events countdown hour-by-hour and minute-by-minute as the action ratchets up in intensity, and the pace will leave you breathless at the end of each chapter. This is an intelligent story that will make you think long after you stop reading with characters that you can’t get out of your mind. The problem will be that you can’t put it down. Every book has been better than the last, and the heart-pounding action in this installment doesn’t stop; it barely slows down. And it all leads up to a cliff-hanger ending that will leave sci-fi readers shocked with their mouths hanging open. Then they’ll start screaming for the next book.

In 16 hours, the world as we know it will end... In less than a day, the most gigantic solar storms ever seen by modern man will overwhelm the magnetosphere of the planet squelching it down to a fraction of its normal size. The moment that happens, intense solar radiation will burn through the atmosphere and scorch the surface of the earth for the entire time the storms are active. After the monster flares cease, the magnetic field will take two centuries to restore full coverage and protection. Our modern civilization is incapable of withstanding the first assault of the solar disaster, and most of our technology will be destroyed or rendered inoperable. And worse, unfiltered radiation from ordinary sunlight will begin to cause widespread infertility and radiation damage to whatever life that manages to survive the initial solar storms. And the only people who can possibly stop the coming disaster are all on the same secret island base in the Bahamas, where an impossible artifact from Mayan history has just been discovered to contain an ancient and mysterious consciousness with knowledge of the impending solar disaster... and maybe more. And in the middle of this imminent earth-shattering catastrophe, a newly sentient supercomputer has a temper tantrum with the President of the United States and sets off a chain of dominoes which throws another world-ending danger into the countdown to doom. The Final Fire of Bright Skies is the fifth exciting novel in the epic Ancients of Earth Series. Picking up the story at the same instant The Wrath of the Invisible Sword ended, the pace is now racing. The current book covers the next 9 hours out of only 16 hours left in the world. All of the major characters have been introduced and now the action is spiraling into a tornado of mystery, intrigue and danger that stretches back over 78 millennia. The same minute-by-minute style in the modern timeline creates a story that will drag you in and not let you go until you finish, with characters that get inside your head and don’t come out. Lucian Randolph has created an intelligent, epic universe that’s so real you will have a hard time telling where fact ends and fiction begins. Either way, the saga will keep playing in your thoughts and dreams long after you’ve put it down. And in typical fashion, this installment finishes in a dramatic cliffhanger that’ll leave you wondering how this twisted tale is going to end. Then you’ll scramble to read the sixth and final book, The Seed of the Sun’s Heart, to find out how Lucian is going to tie together all the loose ends.