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Messengers of an Alien God
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780615695730
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 17 2012
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The small rural town of Creedance, Missouri, finds itself hosting a crashed alien flying saucer of gargantuan proportions. The saucer's crew are beautiful but amorphous creatures resemble Old-Testament angels, claim to be immortal but claim no knowledge of any religion.
Beyond What We Know
Minotaur
Then, one by one, local residents disappear or are found sexually mutilated. A few citizens begin to wonder why they and the rest of their neighbors have accepted the archangels with initial indifference.
Lost Souls
As more residents disappear, the an odd alliance of a right-wing sheriff, a new-age waitress, an eccentric intellectual and his wife, and stranded college student seek clues to the true nature of the angels. What they learn is a shock to all concerned, including the archangels themselves.
The dramatis personae include: Sheriff John Wright, right-wing lawman with marital problems; Uncle Robert Jacobsen, resident savant, polyglot, bibliophile and possibly a borderline schizophrenic; Sophia Blackstone, muralist, common-law wife to Uncle Robert, and one of the few educated Afro-Americans in town; Bryan Douglas, one-time philosophy major, one-time English major, one-time journalism major and college dropout, currently a career woodcutter; Laura Jacobsen, Uncle Robert's sexually manipulative niece; an Doctor Charles Jenkins, reformed alcoholic and country doctor.
From the Author: By no means am I using this genre for a pulpit. This cannot be called religious fiction by any stretch of the imagination. Nor am I an atheist with a grudge trying to seize the bully pulpit from those who are religious. I'm simply trying to tell a good story, one inspired by a reoccurring lucid dream and out-of-body experience. I strove to write about unique concepts, strong characters and intriguing situations. I didn't set out to write a novel, not to mention a trilogy, but more questions arose as I answered the first questions, and the characters I thought I had control over seemed to develop a life independent of any outline I produced, and second and third novels, Dreamtime of an Alien God and Awakening of an Alien God, were the result. -R. Douglas Burns
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