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Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction
Series
by Hawk MacKinney
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GENRE: Science Fiction
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BLURB:
The
Cairns of Sainctuarie Volume I - The Bleikovat Event
Volume II – The
Missing Planets
Volume III – Inanna
Phantom
From a rocky outcrop
a battle-widowed Etkaa, gazed down at the death and upheaval. Rancid green
Murian blood stanched the dusklit breezes from the haze-dimmed river
marshlands. Nothing has been spared by the Green Dragon forces of Bleikovia. In
skirmishes along the Feldon River, Etkaaâ's mate is fatally wounded with deadly
selvon poison. Through a gruesome mountain trek of icy blizzards, they elude
the Green Dragon. The battered starving Feldovats reach the coast at Eedov City
only to be confronted by their implacable enemy determined to destroy the
remaining Klarvkon rabble. Taking passage on crowded Maalon freighters, the
refugees escape toward a new life among their Maalon hosts. Enraged Bleikovats
move against the Klarvkons, bringing indiscriminate bloodshed. War once again
surfaces, as it did in the muddy filth along the Feldon River of Malfesov, and
becomes a different kind of war.
Generations after the
great Murian upheaval of the Malfesian War against the
Bleikovats, the
Accords between planets Terato and Myr are signed.
Provisional Outpost
Terato is under construction near a farm where Teratoan orphan Eklam a'Qoc
lives with his uncle and cousin. Inquisitive strong-minded Eklam, Ek to
everyone in the village, is captivated by the off-worlders technology, and becomes
an apprentice to the Outpost Terato's Murian commander, Grand Duke Korvo. Uncle
a'Qoc disapproves; wants nothing to do with these outlanders, wants their
shimmering doorway portals-of-travel banned from Terato. As Outpost Terato
becomes operational it seems to become a harbinger stirring ageless secrets of
The Old Ones and their frightful weapons, of ancient Teratoan ruins, mysterious
glowing lights, unexplained killings, a sacred book in a language no Teratoan
can read, a moon that doesn't behave like a moon in its wobbly orbit.
From cosmic reaches
beyond space and time the ominous secrets of Terato's
ancient ruins become
more threatening. Ek and Korvo realize both their worlds face extinction with
any hope buried somewhere in unknown galaxies far beyond a pastoral Terato or
the sophisticated star-empire of the Murians; of missing planets in a star
system with its single star in a galaxy far-removed unknown to Terato or Myr.
They travel across the universe to a place long forgotten to fight this unknown
foe with weapons only dreamed of. Together they face the beast that wishes to
consume the entire universe.
The threat of rift
invasions seems long passed. Plentiful harvests abound. The Murian
first-contact Terato Outpost has grown into the sprawling Terato-Murian
Terminus Terato with a hub of relay portals reaching across the vast uncharted
galactic expanses and connecting with its eon-extinct Lantaraan prehistory. An
exploratory Terato-Murian Jupiterr outpost is established on the gas giant
seventh planet, and its quantum and gravitational energies are used to power
outpost portals for an archeological survey of the fourth planet, Eorthe. The
Lantaraan database aboard Terato’s ancient Downday moon shows that one or more
planets of the Solaris planets have apparently been lost. Expanded
archeological records on other Lantaraan orbital bodies in the Solaris system
show the fourth planet from the star—Eorthe—to be a sterile wasteland. Except
it is not. Eorthe’s civilization is not to the level of the Murian Empire, but
it is far advanced to those of a pastoral Terato. Terato and Eorthe form the
confederated United Terran League under the nominal figurehead leader of League
High Judikarr Eklam a’Qoc. Jupiterr outpost expands into a major League
stronghold, Jupiterr Base, when civil unrest erupts in the League, the
unexpected return of rift intrusions threatens, and the Murian Emperor Klarvko
Celo is assassinated. As they prepare for confrontations with an unknown
ancient enemy, the internal tensions on Myr and Eorthe push Murians and
Teratoans to dangerous discords.
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EXCERPT:
Volume I - The Bleikovat Event
There had been warnings…far from the Feldon River, across
the flat prairies and far-flung farming settlements, in the grain fields and
remote gelf ranches of the far-west reaches of Feldon provinces. Most dismissed them, “…idle gossip from those
with too little to do.”
The onslaught struck late and faraway during the last
harvesting moons of the growing season, and once again unsettled whispers
passed. Among the markets and along
trade routes far from the fields and farms of the Feldovat fiefdoms the word
spread. That was before dispatch riders
and message runners on ponderous muscled claks brought more disturbing
rumors: “Heavy raids and ambushes all
along the hinterlands this side of the Bleikov-Bormeikovat frontiers.”
One grizzled Murian farmer’s slit-pupils narrowed to thin
slivers. Gently tightened the
reins. Hooked to the plough, the
lumbering gelf plodded to a stop. He
laid the planed-wood handles of the plough sidewise onto the fresh furrow. Without moving from the trenched rows the
gelf reached its thick neck to nibble the green tufts around its feet. The weathered work-aged farmer carefully
slipped the reins off his shoulder.
Fingered the split creeping along one sweat-stained handle, “…get this
to the woodworker before spring ploughing times. Get it braced before I have to barter for a
new plough handle.” Pulled off his
wide-brim woven hat; wiped his forehead.
Uncorked his gelf-leather water pouch; took long slow swallows. Spit a bitter-chewed slurry of brown chakklu;
scowled, "…ill-tempered uplander Bleikovats." Another long swallow…re-plugged the
pouch. Bit off another twist of dried
chakklu.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
With
postgraduate degrees and faculty positions in several medical universities,
Hawk MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both the United States and
Jerusalem. His professional writing includes articles on chordate
neuroembryology, and aerospace research on muscle metabolic behavior in
multi-orbital environments.
In addition,
Hawk has authored several works of fiction including a historical romance
Moccasin Trace which was nominated for both the prestigious Michael Shaara
Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award. His
Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series and his Moccasin Hollow Mystery
Series have received national and international attention.
www.hawkmackinneyauthor.com
www.sagewordspublishing.com
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