Myriad

About the Book

Table of Contents       -    

Chapter One :    The First Samaritan  

1a Musical Prelude:  “Goin’ Back”  by Neil Young  

1b Musical Conclusion:  “Eternity Road”  by the Moody Blues  

The Novel begins four million years ago in prehistoric South Africa, and is based on the real-life finding of the oldest Human ancestral fossil remains found by the American Paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson (1974). The Hominid skeletal remains of  Johanson’s “Lucy” come to life as we share a prehistoric moment of life and death with our early ancestors.  This sojourn has its climax when Lucy is near death and she has a death-bed encounter with a heavenly visitor, and we are left wondering about this event fossilized in our shared genetic make-up; Begging the eternal questions, “What Are Humans? Are Humans the result of  a freak of nature, an alien experiment, or the creation of a Divine Will?”

Chapter Two :    The Tale of the Twin Cities

2a Musical Prelude:  “Last Stand Before”  by Armageddon  

2b Musical Conclusion: “I Never Thought I’d Live To Be One Hundred”

    by the Moody Blues 

Is the re-telling of the Biblical tale from the Old Testament Book of Genesis.  It is the scandalous story of Sodom and Gomorrah, but it is told from the point-of-view of the two Angelic Messengers, rather than the legendary Biblical characters.  We meet Ar-thor and Mik-el; two main characters belonging to the ancient Archonian Race, an alien race of benevolent “Watchers”.  However, these two passive watchers are forced to become “active players” in this dramatic re-telling of the already famous Bible story.

Chapter Three :  The Last Toltec  

3a Musical Prelude:  “To Be Over”  by Yes  

3b Musical Conclusion: “Eyes of a Child”  by the Moody Blues  

Continues on centuries later,  with the same alien characters we met in chapter two in a new adventure that demonstrates the incredible longevity of members of the Archonian Race.  We join our two space travelers, Mik-el and Ar-thor, on a rendezvous set on Earth in the jungles of Central America, ... where they help the indigenous population realize an age-old dream of attaining Heaven, and offers an alternative explanation for the strange, unexplained disappearances of some of the ancient populations there, like the “Toltecs”.

This concludes the general summaries of the first four chapters. The following in an actual excerpt from Chapter One:  Earth, 3.18 Million years ago ... Somewhere near present-day Hadar, Ethiopia in Africa. A warm wind rose from the western plain and spread light refreshing rain showers over the Savannah, near what would one day be referred to as the "Olduvai Gorge" region of Western Africa.

But for the present, it was a warm, well-watered grassy plain surrounded by many green hills, which had yet to erode away. A late afternoon sun shown down through puffy white clouds. And these cotton-white clouds drifted slowly by in a pastel-blue sea of sky.

"Lucy" was close to giving birth now! Only a matter of a few hours more now, but this her third child felt so uncomfortably "Big" in her swollen belly!

I hope you will order a copy of Myriad to enjoy in its entirety! Thank You! MM

About the Author

“Transceiver #6016: The Darkness Within” is Mark Masters’ second Sci-Fiction Novel ... Mark Masters was born in Erie, PA in the Summer of 1957. His Mother “Josephine Veronica” was from Italian-American roots (Reno/Ruffo), and his Father “Julius Marion” was from a Polish-American background (Sarbak/Borkowski). His early life revolved around life in the city. However, before he started his schooling he and his parents moved into the countryside. A new world greeted our young "Earth Explorer", and it must have made a deep-impression, for the basis of all of his future writing became firmly planted in “All Things Wild”...