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Timeslayers

The Chronicles of the Charon Series

by Colin Sephton

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GENRE:   Steampunk Adventure Mystery

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BOOK BLURB:

In a Steampunk Oxford, Ignatius and Indigo are both agents for the Union Jacks, a secret organisation. The role of the Union is to protect the British Empire, which is at the height of its powers, and help in its technological advances. They have discovered the existence of the mystical Book of Consciousness written by the creator of the cosmos, the genderless Omnisoul. The book is the history of everything that is, that has been and that will be. The agents are aided by Skye, who accidentally calls forth seven merciless immortals called the Charon.

Known as the Beautiful and the Damned, the Charon are the Infernal Dukes of Hell, created to carry out the will of the Omisoul. But they are tired of their immortality and want to end their existence. Elsewhere, the sorcerer Ragnar of Roc has conjured a hole in spacetime, allowing the draconic Elder God Calabi Ya to re-enter the cosmos from the Ghost Worlds. He is as old as the Omnisoul and wants the book to learn his destiny. The two Union Jacks leave Oxford and are taken on a journey across the cosmos in the great ship Taraka, which sails through space and time. Ignatius and Indigo are mere pawns in the cosmic ocean of fate, carried to fabled places, witness to bloody massacres, and half-willing conspirators in the Charon’s plot to thwart the Omnisoul’s plan and defeat the protectors of the Well at the Centre of Time.

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EXCERPT TWO:

Glancing around cautiously, Ignatius could see that nobody else in the library had moved, gestured or even looked. He looked back at the book he was reading. He had to concentrate on the unfamiliar text to translate with any accuracy. Its author, Enoch Slipnot, had an unsteady hand, and the inks was faded in places. As he read the next section, his right hand began to tingle, a slight burning sensation.

It came through the Land of the Duranki. Those trained in the art of Al Kimiya brought forth sentient life, the fiery whirlwind that passes like lightning through the fiery clouds, believing they could master this Unholy Great One.

I have read of the great horrors the Unholy One brought forth, seeking the emerald tablet thought to have been hidden in the library of the Mystorium by the Order of the Ti-Botta. If this great red shadow should discover the sword of great power, he will wreak destruction on a cosmic scale and the whole cosmos shall tremble at his feet. The great runesword has been forged with an edge keen enough that it may even cut through the aether. Only a being in harmony with the cosmos can make use of such a weapon and with the Great Book, Turiya and the power of the Charon, summoned by the High Priest, stop the Unholy One.

I am unswerving in my task as the last remaining warrior-priest of the Charon – the Dragon- slayers of the Ecclesiarchy…

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GUEST POST:

My Favorite Memories Spent at the Local Library

I have very fond memories of my time spent alone at the library. It was just around the corner from my gran’s house. Maybe I lived my early years with my head in the clouds, I don’t know, but all of what I read helped shape my young mind and gave me an escape and a means to create my own worlds in my head. I was always interested in the stars and planets. I do recall that for some time I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up and changed my mind at the age of seven for fear of crashing my spaceship. Maybe subconsciously this was because I was brought up at the time of the Space Race. The Seventies saw missions to the Moon, to Mars and later to the outer planets. The Universe offered more for my mind to get to grips with and to use my imagination with, than anything else I had ever encountered. Put yourself into the mind of a nine-year-old boy, when in 1973, NASA was looking for signs of life on Mars. What would the implications be if they had found it? Right from this early age I was keen to know what it was all about – life, the universe and everything.

I remember that at the age of about nine, in the third year of Junior school we studied the Egyptians - their gods and a sample of hieroglyphics. I was fascinated. When I was not in school, I spent much of my time, particularly during the summer school holidays, at my elderly grandmothers. It was here I really began to be interested in ancient history.

To occupy myself I would compile projects, using my gran’s books which she later gave to me - Odhams Illustrated Encyclopaedia (1953) and Odhams Modern Educator, supplementing this with more information from the local library. I was thirteen and this was my first library card. I must have spent several hours in that library, every day of the week during the holidays. It was here I first discovered the mysteries of the universe, both natural and fantastical. I remember reading books about the creation of the universe and the solar system. I compiled an entire folder explaining the universe, from its creation to the various types of galaxies and stars, to maps of the moon and Mars.

But it was in that library my mind was awakened to all the unexplained phenomena. I had notes on the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, the Yeti, UFO's and had read books on the alleged finding of Noahs Ark, books on Atlantis, Mu and Lemuria, the Bermuda Triangle, Stonehenge and other neolithic monuments. I read about the Mayans, Egyptians, the Greeks and Norse mythology. I studied rocket propulsion systems, ram jets, solar wind sails and the science of blackholes and particle. But more and more I began to veer towards the possibility of ancient contact sometime in prehistory. I obtained my own copy of 'Chariot of the Gods, all about the possible visitation by extraterrestrials in our ancient past.

I was also reading the usual American monthly output from Marvel Comics - Thor, The Avengers, Silver Surfer and Galactus, and Captain Marvel. My imagination used to run amok! Later I began to concentrate solely on the sagas of Conan the Barbarian - reading both the comics and paperback books by Robert E Howard. When I was sixteen a friend introduced me to the Michael Moorcock stories about Elric the albino, an incarnation of the Eternal Champion. My world would never be the same again. It became a quest to purchase and read as many Elric novels as I could get.

All of this shaped who I am today and what I am interested in. I seem to have an in-built urge to try and discover answers to life’s greatest mysteries. I can’t help it. Whether that trait existed before, I don’t know, but my time spent at the library certainly helped to shape it. I think the power of a book can never be underestimated. I can still smell the library I used to visit, I have such a fond memory of it, and I am grateful I discovered it. I would not be the person I am today without it!

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AUTHOR BIO:

Colin was born in Coventry and worked in the automotive industry for over twenty years before becoming an Engineering teacher. Obtaining his first library card at the age of thirteen, he became an avid reader of Fantasy and the mysteries of the Universe. He has an inbuilt curiosity for lost knowledge and ancient texts that may help to unlock the secrets of consciousness and the universe. Living in Oxford for many years, he has now moved back to his home county of Warwickshire where he enjoys creating and working with his wife on their garden in which he writes and entertains their two grandsons. He has always been an artist and writer and is inspired by the worlds created by Robert E Howard and Michael Moorcock, with the artwork of Frank Frazetta.

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CONNECT WITH COLIN:

Cinnabarmoth Author Page:

https://cinnabarmoth.com/colin-sephton

Website:

https://sephtonart.com

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/timeslayers

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GIVEAWAY INFO:

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