The Portal:Science Fiction Meets Fantasy in this Action Adventure Novel (Book One)

by Malachi Mata

Overview

"…intriguing…" "…well written…" "…moves at a good pace…"

Deelo Con, a disgraced war commander in the Daylon Empire, is the first to discover the Portal at the Battle of Wieese, but when he is sucked up into it, he emerges ten years later with his identity forgotten, odd and extraordinary magical powers, and no sense of loyalty. As his memories slowly come back, Deelo is pressed for the location of the Portal, because whoever encounters it gains the abilities to hurl stones from staffs, raise lava from the ground, and see beyond one's own eyes.

With the balance of Power in the Daylon Empire hanging precariously in the hands of Deelo's brother, the self-crowned emperor of the New Daylon Empire, Deelo must decide to whom he should lead to the Portal and grant these destructive powers, and whom he should leave to die.

But Deelo must act quickly and decisively, because the Portal goes both ways. The real invaders are coming, and they're not just coming for the Daylon's territories: they're coming for their souls.

"The Portal is an intriguing action adventure with fully flushed out social and political systems, and a main character that struggles with moral decisions while forced into precarious positions. All the while, there are people being tortured and battles a plenty in search of The Portal, but is this religious icon a saving grace... or the "E"-day for everyone, an end to humanity as they know it."

"For the sake of a good author's future please do download the book and email the author a few edits."

-Heaven's Fiction Review
https://heavensfiction.blogspot.com/2018/06/editors-feedback-book-review-portal-by.html

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155196235
Publisher:	Malachi Mata
Publication date:	03/31/2018
Series:	The Birdmen of Beta Earth
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

As a child, Malachi was too shy to speak to anyone except his sister. In order to communicate with others, he would whisper in his sister's ear and she would answer for him.

"What do you want to drink, honey?" his mother asked.

"He'll take milk now, Mommy," answered his sister.

Malachi didn't begin to break out of his shell until he entered his first year of college where he accidentally performed onstage for one of the most prestigious drama departments in the country, the drama department of Southern Oregon State University (then Southern Oregon State College) in the southern Oregon town of Ashland, Oregon, famous for its Shakespearean festival.
Malachi was visiting a friend at the time, a drama student, when he decided to look around the prestigious theater. He wandered out onto the main stage. The two men sitting in the middle of the empty theater stopped talking, looked up from their clipboards, and stared in disbelief. Was Malachi trespassing or something?

After several tense moments of silence, Malachi blocked the stage light that was blinding him to get a better look at the men and spoke. "Hello?"

"Do you believe in serendipity?" the director said in a half-whisper.

"What does serendipity mean?"

Malachi was 18 years old and had a lot to learn about life, and a lot to learn about the English language. It wouldn't be until he became an ESL teacher that he would gain an appreciation for the English language.

"It's the belief that things happen for a reason," the kind, older-gentleman explained.

It turns out that at the moment Malachi wandered out onto the dust-filled stage, the two directors were in the middle of discussing what to do about an actor who had just quit. The part was for an Australian aboriginal watching the boats come in and the European new comers disembarked and set up their town in Australia in the stage play, "Our Country's Good."
Enter Malachi stage right, the closest thing that school had to an aboriginal.

The director and co-director exchanged looks, like they were talking to each other telepathically. "Should we do this? Yes, let's do this."

Still crushingly shy, and despite the great couching of the director, Malachi did not have a stage voice. His lines we dubbed by a real actor and played over speakers while Malach...