Universal Magic
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About the Book
The book Universal Magic, is a twin book. The universal half is named, UPLINE, DOWNLINE, while the magic half is named, MAI ‘JX. Upline, downline is about parallel universes. It is a story of a simian race of beings called the Golden, who have a repressive government run by the Church of the Golden Way. The Church has displaced the historical ruling family and forbidden its citizens from learning anything concerning higher technology, while using the knowledge accumulated by the Imperial Family to enslave their own people. One of these technological marvels is the cross-universe gate. The gates are links to the linear universes that bind the cosmos, with one line of worlds going upline, and another in the direction known as downline. The last surviving member of the Imperial Family and her two children are rescued by dissident scientists, and along with the genetically similar natives of another world enslaved by the Church, flee downline. It is during the cross-universe escape that they encounter the world of humans on a farm in West Virginia. In exchange for cross-universe technology, Mike Miller and his family agree to help the golden and their former slaves and now allies the Gorr, defend their new Empire against the revenge of the Church. * * * The second book, Mai ‘JX, is about energy beings who inhabit the Oort cloud around Earth’s sun. The Mai ‘JX have an affinity for carbon and can pack the energy of their bodies within the spheres of carbon-60 molecules for greater strength to their energy matrix. They can also tap into the miniscule amounts of energy created by a biologic entity as a sort of food source. This ability and affinity allows them to use what they call ‘mobile carbon’ as a suit of armor. The Mai ‘JX of the double Centauri stars do not have this source of mobile carbon and have raided the Sol system for hundreds of millions of years for their own mobile carbon specimens. Every time the specimens they obtain through periodic raids begin to wear out, they again raid the sources of mobile carbon on the planets orbiting the home star of the Sol Mai ‘JX, creating mass extinctions on the mobile carbon nurseries of the Sol Mai ‘JX. When the Sol Mai ‘JX begin to marshal their forces to repel the latest raids from the Centauri Mai ‘JX, they find that one variation of mobile carbon of the third world of their sun has developed a primitive kind of sentience. Before long the Sol Mai ‘JX have entered into an alliance with these solid matter beings to fight their millennia long enemy.
About the Author
I love to read, but sometimes I put off starting a book because I don’t want to get part way through it and have to put it down. When I was younger this was no problem because novels were smaller. Over the years they grew in size as authors tried to add sociological messages of great importance. This is good sometimes, but has a tendency to make the story less fun. What good is a book that’s no fun to read? If a book is no fun, its great message will never be found. Universal Magic was written to be fun. It contains two, half-novels that are long enough to tell a good story (I hope), yet small enough that a reader can escape a crappy weather day or just fill boring time in a lazy day and still have time to do other stuff. You might not be able to tell a book’s content by its cover, but a good cover certainly makes me want to see what’s inside. Therefore, I would like to thank my nephew, Craig Mullins, for assembling the cover art, and I would also like to thank NASA and STScI for the use of the images used to make the cover. Makes me want to read it, I hope it does the same for you.