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Akhunaton: The Extraterrestrial King
Ancient Egypt is the setting for this drama of humans and interplanetary visitors. Long after human life this planet was genetically altered by visitors from other worlds and ages, something has gone a member of the Inner Circle is prolonging his life parasitically utilizing acts of human sacrifice.
To demonstrate the extraterrestrial origin of humanity, a recreation of the original genetic seeding was staged, intended to be preserved for all time in art and sculpture.
This is the amazing legacy of King Akhunaton, known also as Akhenaten and Iknaton. This science fiction adventure intruduces the reader to the most unusual family in history. It also features one of literature’s most menacing villains.
To demonstrate the extraterrestrial origin of humanity, a recreation of the original genetic seeding was staged, intended to be preserved for all time in art and sculpture.
This is the amazing legacy of King Akhunaton, known also as Akhenaten and Iknaton. This science fiction adventure intruduces the reader to the most unusual family in history. It also features one of literature’s most menacing villains.
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392 pages, Paperback
First published November 14, 1995
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March 3, 2013
1.5 stars
I don't remember what I was thinking when I purchased this book at Powell's Books, but I am certain that the back-cover blurb by Robert Anton Wilson probably clinched the deal. What a mistake! This book was a slog, almost unreadable at times, through almost every flaky notion out there. The author's sense of archaeological time was laughable, with millions of years being regularly conflated with millennia, and his knowledge of ancient Egypt was pretty funny too. Does Stewart seriously believe that Akhenaten was an alien-human hybrid whose anatomical and philosophical peculiarities existed solely to inspire the author-illustrator's fevered imagination three millennia later? Because that seems to be the point of this whole tedious tome.
I don't remember what I was thinking when I purchased this book at Powell's Books, but I am certain that the back-cover blurb by Robert Anton Wilson probably clinched the deal. What a mistake! This book was a slog, almost unreadable at times, through almost every flaky notion out there. The author's sense of archaeological time was laughable, with millions of years being regularly conflated with millennia, and his knowledge of ancient Egypt was pretty funny too. Does Stewart seriously believe that Akhenaten was an alien-human hybrid whose anatomical and philosophical peculiarities existed solely to inspire the author-illustrator's fevered imagination three millennia later? Because that seems to be the point of this whole tedious tome.
March 10, 2012
i think akhunaton: the extraterrestrial king ,is the best book i have read sence finishing ALL of SITCHINS BOOKS. thank-you so much !!! i have just orderd your telsa book.i live in willits ca ,same area,as you ,if you still live in ukiah.are you by any chance the boy in the end of your book ???
December 20, 2012
I never finished it. I didn't like it. I donated it to the library.
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