Hey, lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Raj Anand and his new book, “Apophis – Into the Folds of Darkness”! For other stops on his Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in this post.
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This eBook is available for FREE on Amazon Kindle until December 5th!!! See below for more details.
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Apophis – Into the Folds of Darkness
by Raj Anand
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GENRE: Sci-fi, Science Fiction
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BLURB:
January, 2022: A dark monstrous twin-headed apparition – Apophis – feverishly races past the expanse of the Milky Way galaxy and bolts to the edge of the solar system. Recklessly accelerating, the sinister rock-dyad enters the gravitational keyhole of the blue planet and continues its resolute inebriated journey – to soon arrive with an apocalyptic impact on Earth.
December, 2012: Five sentient beings born in different cities – New York, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Azores Islands and Istanbul, discover amongst haunting memories of their phantasmal past lives, that it is their destiny to save humanity from the evil forces unleashed by the alien fiends – the Skyllats.
And now, the reincarnated 9-year-olds must rely on their shared, ancient wisdom to prepare humanity for the war across the galaxy that is imminent.
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A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
Writing Apophis over these past five years, has been a cathartic inner-journey that rippled across my life. It extracted all of my patience, diligence and life-learnings of my past 52 years lived on this orphic blue bubble, as it floats across a conscious Universe.
Now its journey complete, it was launched a few days ago on several platforms across the world. And I am left exhausted, numbed and humbled by this Initiation.
I acknowledge that it is a book that I have NOT written, for it was willed from me – by the Universe. And now, it is like a child set free – floating away – ready to choose its own path, life-journey and future.
Where it goes from here?
It is for the Universe to decide.
I did, what was willed of me to do…
All I can promise the reader is a book imbued with a magical wisdom. A restlessly paced story that transports you across time, teamed up with five children along their phantasmal, breathtaking journeys.
These 9-year-olds the reincarnations of ancient philosophers, including Confucius, Plato, Buddha, Ptah Hotep and a mysterious another.
Happy Reading!
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EXCERPT ONE:
The Barred Spiral
Milky Way Galaxy
At the Edge of the
Solar System
January 17, 2022 (Earth Time)
A dark monstrous apparition, slingshot from across another realm, camouflaged in a jagged, charcoal black rock, adroitly surfed the gravitational waves of the universe. Feverishly racing past the expanse of the Milky Way galaxy, it bolted to the edge of the solar system and arrived from above the plane of the ecliptic – gyrating closer to the sun.
The dark fiend continued its charge forward, cutting across the path of Venus – nearly crashing onto it, before it deftly decelerated and reached a stable orbit in a retrograde rotation around the pale-yellow planet. This tenacious temporary satellite immediately scrambled to steal a fragment of the protesting planet’s enormous momentum. Catapulted along the plain of the ecliptic, recklessly accelerating at an impossible speed – it shattered, splitting into two.
The newly formed rock dyad – a small black moon orbiting a sphere of death – pulled free from Venus. It continued its inebriated journey, salivating at the opportunity to rain a resolute chaos upon an orphic azure-blue bubble still 40 million kilometers away.
Unbeknownst to the alien rock dyad, a faint sliver of gold orbited nearby. The 7.5-meter-tall and 3.2-meter wide Sentinel Space Telescope clothed in a gold foil, with a giant heat-reflector shield strung along its back; cooled to 40 degrees Kelvin by a two stage, closed cycle Stirling cryocooler. Its 0.51-meter aluminum mirror, dutifully scanned any and all Inner Earth Objects larger than 90 meters in diameter that ever dared to fly across its 200-degree angle of regard.
The Sentinel Observatory, alarmed by the presence of the ghostly twin-headed monster, recorded the black rock dyad’s trajectory, shape, size, mass, and rotational dynamics, before it urgently sent a coded message to its home base in southern Japan.
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BOOK TRAILER:
Check out the exciting book trailer for APOPHIS – Into the Folds of Darkness below!!
Amongst our present shared chaos across the planet, we are being forced to slow down and listen to our inner spirit and intuition. Undeterred, we continue to imagine and believe in the power of stories embedded in our very humanity and our deep will to overcome.
Stories about strife, about love, about truth, about justice and even epiphanies.
For the past several years I have been writing such a story.
My first book, in the science fiction genre.
Which now complete – I am excited to share:
The book and the story, about:
• a magical wisdom
• about chaos and revival
• about our unbreakable, deep connection with nature and the
spirit world
• a story about initiation into the world of Shamanism
• A story about travelling back in time
• A story about five reincarnated, heroic 9-year-olds
• And a story about the power of the invisible dark energy that surrounds us
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AUTHOR BIO:
Savinder Raj Anand is an architect and has been teaching Architecture & Design at various Universities in India for more than 12 years. A long-distance runner with a wanderlust to explore the world, and write stories that traverse across diverse cultures. He lives in Goa with his daughter, a dog, and two cats.
Inspired by his then 18-month-old daughter – when she quoted Socrates – while they together sat in a children’s bookstore in Bangalore (LIGHTROOM) in early January of 2015, he has completed this – his first book – as she turns 7 years old.
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CONNECT WITH RAJ:
Website:
Email:
contact@rajanandbooks.com
Facebook:
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Instagram:
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YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXPA0eY42VQ
Goodreads Author
Page:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3450568.Raj_Anand
Goodreads Book Page:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55664949-apophis---into-the-folds-of-darkness
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BOOK BUY LINKS & BOOK SALE INFO:
**The APOPHIS – Into the Folds of Darkness eBook is available for FREE on Amazon Kindle until December 5th!!!**
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Raj will be awarding a $25 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.**This post contains affiliate links and if clicked and a
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Sounds like a great book to read. Thanks for sharing and for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteRaj ~ Good morning! Welcome back! It is so great to have you here again! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteGreat post, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteGreat excerpt, sounds like a good read.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you most enjoy about writing in this genre?
ReplyDeleteThank you for the review!
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