Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker

The prequel to Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker is now published by Del Sol Press and entitled, World Maker : The Ascension of Romanova . The story focuses on the maturation of Catherine Romanova, from young girl in her father's castle in Prussia to World Maker supreme, and then back again. Plotting style and sets are very different from the follow-up Piper novel. Characters like Romanova spend a liberal amount of energy phasing from one point in time to the next, and it makes good sense. Why? Because they are fighting a time war for the destiny of the 21st century. One moment Catherine is at the Battle of the Somme in WW I, working to ensure the German army turns the war tide in its favor. Is this a spoiler? The next moment she is "bitch slapping" Genghis Khan in his own tomb (after a Mongolian wizard restores him to life), evolving to drag her abusive mother Princess Joanna down the castle hall by her hair. Regardless, the major thrust of the plot concerns a...

CHOSEN AT RANDOM       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 m...

AHRIMAN A magical being who fell to Asia from the stars around 8,000 B.C. Though the sex of this being is not known, its children, the original World Makers—Dao Changkratok, Edison Godfellow (aka Da Vinci), and Svetlana Frankivsk (the missing World Maker), among others—named him Ahriman after the omnimalevolent Persian spirit. They saw their parent only in their darkest dreams and its form always resembled that of a huge, bee-like creature, though with many eyes and infinite patience. Ahriman’s true origin and intent yet remains a matter of mystery and conjecture. Upon ascension to World Maker in the 18 th century, Czarina Catherine Romanova also had visions of a similar creature she believed to be Ahriman. ARIA MAGIC Since the birth of the World Makers in the Bronze Age, only two ever possessed the power of aria, and both were women. The first, Dao Changkratok, lived in old Thailand and died at the hands of the Dio Soldati following an attempt to murder Edison Godfello...