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The Birdmen of Beta Earth #1
The Portal
In a medieval fantasy world of swords and shields, battle lines and battle formations, family dynasties and shifting alliances, the Daylon Empire’s hold on the world is threatened when a cache of sci-fi laser weapons, stealth suits, and smart bullets enter through a portal from another world, our world, future Earth.
But the Portal from which these technologies emerge is not what it seems.
The Portal: Book One
of the birdmen of Beta Earth Saga
Science Fiction Meets Fantasy in this Action Adventure Novel
Science fiction and fantasy for adults
Deelo Con, a disgraced hero who was once a commander in the highest ranks of the Daylon military, now a lowly captain, the highest rank a provincial non-Daylon can be, is serving under the whim of his royal and tyrannical adopted brother, Novak Vaskillian, a powerful Daylon who has always had it in for Deelo. But when Deelo Con is sucked up into the magical Portal, he comes back from the spirit world a new man, a man who has forgotten who he is, a man free from any allegiances, and a man with the keys to the source of all known sorcery: advanced technology.
But as Deelo’s memories slowly come back to him and he remembers his debt to the Daylon Empire, he meets someone who challenges his sense of duty, the leader of the Resistance, a woman code-named Lilac. With everyone using everything in their arsenal to sway him, from ranks and honors to pain and torture, Deelo must look inside himself to find out who he really is and make the most difficult decision: To whom shall he give this tremendous and terrifying power? And looming over all of this is another identity deep inside of Deelo that is too impossible for him to accept.
In a world of medieval war, whoever has the weapons of the future, will be its master. And whoever doesn’t, will be its slave.
This action adventure trilogy is in the vein of the Game of Thrones TV series. It’s for people who like the war and military parts of the fantasy genre, including the dynastic tensions of family, themes of honor, duty, and what it means to be human. But it’s also for people who like action thrillers set in dark urban dystopian futures like Blade Runner because we also follow another character named Joel Fontaine who lives in a world where implants in the brain have replaced personal devices, gangs and underground groups struggle to survive against a government at war with them, and where the police keep the truth from the populace through the use of future weapons and machines of war.
This series contains:
violence and adult themes
mystery and suspense
science and sorcery
myths and legends
action and adventure
war and military
romance
medieval fantasy warfare
dystopian future
philosophy and theories of time
future technology
Join my reader list and get notified on how you can enjoy the rest of this saga for free.
But the Portal from which these technologies emerge is not what it seems.
The Portal: Book One
of the birdmen of Beta Earth Saga
Science Fiction Meets Fantasy in this Action Adventure Novel
Science fiction and fantasy for adults
Deelo Con, a disgraced hero who was once a commander in the highest ranks of the Daylon military, now a lowly captain, the highest rank a provincial non-Daylon can be, is serving under the whim of his royal and tyrannical adopted brother, Novak Vaskillian, a powerful Daylon who has always had it in for Deelo. But when Deelo Con is sucked up into the magical Portal, he comes back from the spirit world a new man, a man who has forgotten who he is, a man free from any allegiances, and a man with the keys to the source of all known sorcery: advanced technology.
But as Deelo’s memories slowly come back to him and he remembers his debt to the Daylon Empire, he meets someone who challenges his sense of duty, the leader of the Resistance, a woman code-named Lilac. With everyone using everything in their arsenal to sway him, from ranks and honors to pain and torture, Deelo must look inside himself to find out who he really is and make the most difficult decision: To whom shall he give this tremendous and terrifying power? And looming over all of this is another identity deep inside of Deelo that is too impossible for him to accept.
In a world of medieval war, whoever has the weapons of the future, will be its master. And whoever doesn’t, will be its slave.
This action adventure trilogy is in the vein of the Game of Thrones TV series. It’s for people who like the war and military parts of the fantasy genre, including the dynastic tensions of family, themes of honor, duty, and what it means to be human. But it’s also for people who like action thrillers set in dark urban dystopian futures like Blade Runner because we also follow another character named Joel Fontaine who lives in a world where implants in the brain have replaced personal devices, gangs and underground groups struggle to survive against a government at war with them, and where the police keep the truth from the populace through the use of future weapons and machines of war.
This series contains:
violence and adult themes
mystery and suspense
science and sorcery
myths and legends
action and adventure
war and military
romance
medieval fantasy warfare
dystopian future
philosophy and theories of time
future technology
Join my reader list and get notified on how you can enjoy the rest of this saga for free.
- GenresScience Fiction
480 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 28, 2018
312 people are currently reading
79 people want to read
About the author
Malachi Mata
5 books1 followerAs 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 Malachi stood there on stage, like they were his thoughts, like they were his sister speaking for him at dinner.
"He'll have milk now, Mommy."
Malachi transferred to Oberlin College in Ohio and changed his major from art to politics. After graduation in 1999, he returned back to his home town of Portland Oregon, but ever the middle child, Malachi ran away again, this time to a place much farther away. He moved to South Korea to become an English teacher. There he met a woman and got married and after more than 15 years of teaching English, Malachi returned with his wife and son to settle down in Portland Oregon.
Although Malachi has always loved to read, his favorite author being Steven King, he never imagined in his wildest dreams that he would write his own story. When he first started studying books on story making, he had only intended to use the knowledge to improve his YouTube channel videos - a series of webisodes that followed the hardships of raising his son, and in the tradition of magic realism, his son's strange and mystifying powers. But as he studied in preparation for season two, a sinister thought wormed its way into his head. A novelist, unlike a video maker, doesn’t have to be in front of a camera or try to coerce others into performing for him. Nor is a novelist constrained to limit his ideas to things physically possible in the real world. Perhaps he could finally release the imaginings he had kept caged inside his head and find his artistic expression. Maybe, through writing, Malachi could find his voice.
So Malachi wrote a novel. He is now working on the sequel to this novel, and he hopes to have it out soon.
"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 Malachi stood there on stage, like they were his thoughts, like they were his sister speaking for him at dinner.
"He'll have milk now, Mommy."
Malachi transferred to Oberlin College in Ohio and changed his major from art to politics. After graduation in 1999, he returned back to his home town of Portland Oregon, but ever the middle child, Malachi ran away again, this time to a place much farther away. He moved to South Korea to become an English teacher. There he met a woman and got married and after more than 15 years of teaching English, Malachi returned with his wife and son to settle down in Portland Oregon.
Although Malachi has always loved to read, his favorite author being Steven King, he never imagined in his wildest dreams that he would write his own story. When he first started studying books on story making, he had only intended to use the knowledge to improve his YouTube channel videos - a series of webisodes that followed the hardships of raising his son, and in the tradition of magic realism, his son's strange and mystifying powers. But as he studied in preparation for season two, a sinister thought wormed its way into his head. A novelist, unlike a video maker, doesn’t have to be in front of a camera or try to coerce others into performing for him. Nor is a novelist constrained to limit his ideas to things physically possible in the real world. Perhaps he could finally release the imaginings he had kept caged inside his head and find his artistic expression. Maybe, through writing, Malachi could find his voice.
So Malachi wrote a novel. He is now working on the sequel to this novel, and he hopes to have it out soon.
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September 11, 2018
What is a Portal? Really?
My Kindle offered this story for free so I thought, why not?
Glad I did. The story plays with an idea I've been poking at in my own stories. The idea that our minds are more isolated from external reality than we normally imagine. Mr. Maya seems to be poking at the same thing. Maybe our minds are portals to alternate realities. Not maybe. If you are a reader you have access to lots of portals.
My Kindle offered this story for free so I thought, why not?
Glad I did. The story plays with an idea I've been poking at in my own stories. The idea that our minds are more isolated from external reality than we normally imagine. Mr. Maya seems to be poking at the same thing. Maybe our minds are portals to alternate realities. Not maybe. If you are a reader you have access to lots of portals.
July 23, 2018
Incredible
Wow what a ride. This is the type of book I can read again and again to understand things better every time. Very well written and imaginative story. I loved it.
Wow what a ride. This is the type of book I can read again and again to understand things better every time. Very well written and imaginative story. I loved it.
July 19, 2018
It's my baby, so... 1 MILLION STARS!
April 27, 2022
Disappointed !!
This book has a good story line but when author gives the antagonist to much power to were there is complete hopelessness there's no reason to go on to the predictable ending.The author give the illusion that he was a complete lack wit but he was the only one who could save the world it just seems to far fetched even for a fantasy book. The plot and the ridiculous situations the main character was portrayed in and the immense amount of power the author give to the antagonist was way to much not even superman could've done anything to stop the bad guys !! I do not recommend there are so many good books out there that are worth money god bless .
This book has a good story line but when author gives the antagonist to much power to were there is complete hopelessness there's no reason to go on to the predictable ending.The author give the illusion that he was a complete lack wit but he was the only one who could save the world it just seems to far fetched even for a fantasy book. The plot and the ridiculous situations the main character was portrayed in and the immense amount of power the author give to the antagonist was way to much not even superman could've done anything to stop the bad guys !! I do not recommend there are so many good books out there that are worth money god bless .
January 23, 2022
Worthy Effort
Something for everyone. Fighting with the appropriate blood & gore, sexual mention (w/o descriptors - I mean, come on, those are all over now-a-days), religion/spirituality, technology, AI.
The characters are engaging. (I really liked Lilac & the progression of her character through the 1st 2 books.)
It could get a bit confusing, jumping back & forth through time, but with very little effort I was able to adapt. After that, I found it hard to stop reading until I finished this book!
Please! Give it a read!
Something for everyone. Fighting with the appropriate blood & gore, sexual mention (w/o descriptors - I mean, come on, those are all over now-a-days), religion/spirituality, technology, AI.
The characters are engaging. (I really liked Lilac & the progression of her character through the 1st 2 books.)
It could get a bit confusing, jumping back & forth through time, but with very little effort I was able to adapt. After that, I found it hard to stop reading until I finished this book!
Please! Give it a read!
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October 26, 2019Great book I could not put it down
October 30, 2019
Intriguing storyline
It's well written. A little hard to follow at first, but once you get into the storyline it is hard to put down. Well done
It's well written. A little hard to follow at first, but once you get into the storyline it is hard to put down. Well done
October 5, 2024
Good characters, interesting theme and world building, but confusing as the timeline jumps around and is hard to keep track of. 2.5 stars
July 12, 2021
The midnight hour
You did it again, kept me up all night reading,. Could'ent leave it down! But then I fell asleep 😴
You did it again, kept me up all night reading,. Could'ent leave it down! But then I fell asleep 😴
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