by Warwick Gleeson
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GENRE: Fantasy (Epic)
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WORLD WAR OZ from coast
to coast.
An adult fantasy that
takes one of America's favorite tales and transforms it into a dark and epic
landscape few can escape much less understand. Imagine Potter meets Avengers in
Emerald city and you're getting close.
After a homicidal alien
from Orion arrives on Earth intent on annihilating human life, the 21st
century's greatest sorcerers create a network of seven Oz-like city worlds
designed to harbor the human race in a newly formed utopia while also
protecting it from the alien entity. But the alien is far more magically
powerful than anyone suspected. Piper Robbin, ancient daughter of the Earth's
greatest sorcerer inventor, Edison Godfellow, must sacrifice all to defeat the
implacable force that calls itself "The Witch Queen of Oz," and
quickly, before Earth becomes only a cold cinder floating among the stars.
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Excerpt:
PIPER ROBBIN WAS HELPLESS. WORLD WAR OZ had exploded up and
down the Pacific Coast following the dramatic ejaculation of Pentagon armor,
Deplorables, and tripods from the Mojave base. Nothing could stop it. Given the
prevalence of strong EMP deployment on both sides, nearly the entire western
U.S. remained immune to virtually any type of destructive or useful Tao
wavelength, magic or no. Thus the New Humanity Fleet, the Shadow Broker mages,
the Dio Soldati brigades, and other magi-tech combat units were severely hand
tied.
A grim reality faced the forces of
Oz.
The Witch Queen was winning.
The U.S. Army, prodded by her phony Galaxians, pursued Oz
and Martian “sympathizers,” while California, deemed a hive of rabid
discontent, became a primary target for retaliation. Several million human
beings from Sonoma Valley in the north to San Diego in the south were
potentially at the mercy of rampaging war machines and flocks of Deplorables
wielding blades. The east coast too was in flames, the Atlantic surf red with
blood down to South Carolina.
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Warwick Gleeson
is a dedicated writer of screenplays, short stories, novels, and poetry. He has
lived in both LA and NYC and worked many different jobs in his life, everything
from roofer to waiter to small business owner to government analyst. He was the
major writer, creator, and senior story editor for another project published by
Del Sol Press called "War of the World Makers" that debuted in 2017.
The novel has since won four national novel awards (two first place and two place)
for SFF. Warwick is a big fan of great SFF television writing, like the kind
you find in Emerald City, Gotham, The Expanse, and Umbrella Academy. He now
lives in Tuscon, AZ, with a fat lazy cat and his most wonderful wife who is
also a writer.
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ReplyDeleteAlways fun to hear about another new great book. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWhat is the best book that you have read in 2019 so far?
ReplyDeleteTruthfully? ... Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker.
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Great cover and sounds like a good book! :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great read.
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