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John Hopkins

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Author and artist John Hopkins’ passion for the science fiction genre and keen curiosity for what lies beyond common knowledge shape his character-driven storytelling. In 2014, John followed his muse and developed LOST CACTUS , a comic strip set on a top-secret research base similar to Area 51.

The 3-panel strip’s supernatural mythology expanded into a shared universe of Short Stories (Apple, Amazon, Kobo, Google) that sowed the seeds for his epic The Powers That Be trilogy. The first two books in the trilogy, THE GOLDEN ELLIPSE and THE LOST SHIP , are available now in print and e-book formats everywhere you purchase books.

Book Three, THE BLUE SPARK , is scheduled for an early 2024 release. Be ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 29 ratings · 16 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Lost Cactus: The First Treasury 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Ellipse (The Powers That Be, #1) 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Lost Ship (The Powers That Be, #2) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Cactus: The Second Treasury 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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That Amazing Little Voice Inside Your Head

That Amazing Little Voice Inside Your Head

Minerva and the Muses

Aka, your muse. That amazing, or annoying, little voice stuffing your over-taxed and under-motivated brain with crazy ideas and pie-in-the-sky ventures, like: Taking a trip. Painting a landscape. Studying a foreign language. Or, God forbid, writing a novel.

You can ignore your muse. Many do.

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The Lost Ship (The Powers That Be, #2)

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John Hopkins said: " I am so excited for readers to snuggle up with their beverage of choice and lose themselves in the just-released THE LOST SHIP, Book Two in The Powers That Be Trilogy. For the best reading experience, my advice is to read Book One, THE GOLDEN ELLIPSE ...more "

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John Hopkins said: " Enjoy this excerpt from the upcoming Book Three in my The Powers That Be trilogy.

Professor Ian Dury | Fred Beaman Podcast Studio
10:30 a.m. | March 13, 2035
Expressing effusive apologies and promises to double their pay, Professor Ian Dury convince Enjoy this excerpt from the upcoming Book Three in my The Powers That Be trilogy.

Professor Ian Dury | Fred Beaman Podcast Studio
10:30 a.m. | March 13, 2035
Expressing effusive apologies and promises to double their pay, Professor Ian Dury convinced Chet to round up the film school students and continue the documentary shoot, minus Gwen. “No loss there.”
Over the next six months, the film crew traveled the world, making a solid case that multiple technologically-advanced human civilizations had come, flourished for millennia, and then disappeared without leaving a trace.
Satisfied with his latest documentary’s final cut, Professor Ian Dury made the usual rounds to promote the film. Visiting the uber-popular podcaster Fred Beaman’s Los Angeles studio, he sat behind a mike and donned the proffered headphones.
Sporting a fire engine red velour jogging suit over his wide girth, Fred Beaman, the plainspoken former boxer turned podcaster, lit a signature Cuban and blew a thick cloud of smoke into the air, “Welcome back, famed archeologist Professor Ian Dury.”
“Thanks for having me back, Fred.”
Fred leans back in his ergonomic chair and smiles, “So, another documentary on past human civilizations from the world-famous archeologist.” Clenching the stogey in his pearly whites, he pours a double shot of his private label bourbon with a throaty chuckle, “I hear the flick bombed.”
Ian leaned forward, his eyes watering from the cigar smoke, “It will break even, like my other projects, but whether it makes a dime is irrelevant. The myopic fascination with ET is a horrible mistake. It obfuscates a much more important story that no one but myself and a handful of colleagues has the balls to investigate.”
Fred cuts Ian off at the pass, emitting a loud, obnoxious laugh, “Come on, Ian. It’s fucking ET. People can’t get enough of that shit.” With another long puff, Fred smiles, “Okay, I’ll bite since you are here, and we have two hours to kill. Save me the trouble of watching another boring documentary and get to your damn point. Enlighten the audience on what could possibly be more important than the fucking alien disclosure?”
Unfazed by the locker room vibe, having endured Fred Beaman’s mockery on past visits to the famous podcaster’s studio, Ian poured a glass of Fred’s over-priced hooch and waited for the smoke to clear. “One day in the not-too-distant future, our advanced predecessors who left without a trace will return. And Fred, neither you nor I—nor billions more around the globe—are invited to their homecoming party.”

The Blue Spark ...more "

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“Lost Cactus is simply an urban myth.”
― John Hopkins, Lost Cactus: The First Treasury

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“On a far-flung parcel of government land situated somewhere in the vast reaches of parched American western desert sits an abandoned and long forgotten government facility known as Lost Cactus. That is what the shadowy agency ~ that operates there to this day ~ wants everyone from presidents on down to John Q. Public to believe.”
― John Hopkins, Lost Cactus: The First Treasury

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“Lost Cactus is a cornucopia of sights, sounds and inhabitants completely foreign to a little squirrel like Sammy, but attempting to set him straight will only complicate matters.”
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