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Ming
What if we were all living out multiple realities that could be viewed and circumnavigated from the 4th dimension?
The Ming Realities Series follows the many lives and loves of Ming, a healer from the planet Telet. Each book explores how being born under different stars with slightly different personalities can shape our lives and our relationships in ways we would never expect.
Good vs. evil, love vs. hate--visit Ming's Galaxy and fasten your seatbelt for a wild ride!
As Book One opens, we learn that Gabriel O'Ryan is dead, killed in a massive explosion. Or is he? Waking up in a strange place, he's suddenly not so sure. A 4th dimensional being called Paradox is trying to get his attention with music, fireworks and cosmic visions.
What in the Universe is going on? Why can he see his beautiful wife Ming still existing in the 3rd dimension? Desperate to find answers, Gabriel agrees to go on a fantastic journey with Paradox to save the love of his life from a terrible fate.
Ming is a healer from the planet Telet. One of the famous Granite Butterflies of her world, she can heal any illness with a touch. Guided by her 4th dimensional observer, Paradox, she travels through space in search of adventure and those she's destined to heal.
But danger lurks in Ming's Galaxy. There is another planet called Telet--a doppelganger of Ming's world--home to a monster called Murmur, who becomes ill over and over again. Able to confer disease with a touch, his people call him the Destroyer of Souls. Used as an executioner, Murmur is forced to impose his deadly afflictions on those who have been condemned by the oppressive government. Imprisoned in a forbidding tower surrounded by a horrifying moat, his jailers assume he'll never be able to leave.
But Murmur has a secret. He also has a 4th dimensional observer, an evil creature called Quintessence. Upon discovering the existence of these rare Granite Butterflies, this dark demon formulates a master plan to use beings in the 3rd dimension as pawns in an elaborate scheme to bring Ming and Murmur together.
Which will prevail: the ultimate healer or the ultimate disease?
The Ming Realities Series follows the many lives and loves of Ming, a healer from the planet Telet. Each book explores how being born under different stars with slightly different personalities can shape our lives and our relationships in ways we would never expect.
Good vs. evil, love vs. hate--visit Ming's Galaxy and fasten your seatbelt for a wild ride!
As Book One opens, we learn that Gabriel O'Ryan is dead, killed in a massive explosion. Or is he? Waking up in a strange place, he's suddenly not so sure. A 4th dimensional being called Paradox is trying to get his attention with music, fireworks and cosmic visions.
What in the Universe is going on? Why can he see his beautiful wife Ming still existing in the 3rd dimension? Desperate to find answers, Gabriel agrees to go on a fantastic journey with Paradox to save the love of his life from a terrible fate.
Ming is a healer from the planet Telet. One of the famous Granite Butterflies of her world, she can heal any illness with a touch. Guided by her 4th dimensional observer, Paradox, she travels through space in search of adventure and those she's destined to heal.
But danger lurks in Ming's Galaxy. There is another planet called Telet--a doppelganger of Ming's world--home to a monster called Murmur, who becomes ill over and over again. Able to confer disease with a touch, his people call him the Destroyer of Souls. Used as an executioner, Murmur is forced to impose his deadly afflictions on those who have been condemned by the oppressive government. Imprisoned in a forbidding tower surrounded by a horrifying moat, his jailers assume he'll never be able to leave.
But Murmur has a secret. He also has a 4th dimensional observer, an evil creature called Quintessence. Upon discovering the existence of these rare Granite Butterflies, this dark demon formulates a master plan to use beings in the 3rd dimension as pawns in an elaborate scheme to bring Ming and Murmur together.
Which will prevail: the ultimate healer or the ultimate disease?
579 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 24, 2014
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About the author
R.L. Gray
3 books3 followersRL Gray is the author of MING: Book One of The Ming Realities Series. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was a very early reader and embraced all forms of fiction, with a special love of fantasy and science fiction, and credits JRR Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”, along with Lewis Carroll’s “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, for giving her the writing bug at an early age.
But life didn’t afford her the time to get serious about becoming an author until she’d had a long career working in office administration. Supporting herself didn’t leave much time for creative writing, although she always found time to read.
Her writing journey finally began in 2010. Staring at a blank page on her computer screen, she was determined to write something, but found herself at a loss – how to begin? Deciding to follow the old adage: write what you know, she couldn’t help thinking about a tale she’d started to spin when she was a little girl to help her get to sleep at night. Over the years, her reading inspired her with ideas, dimensions, and characters that she wove into her story and she decided to try writing it down as an exercise. That day, The Ming Realities was born.
She lives in Chicago and northern Michigan, dividing her time between her two homes, and is presently working on Book Two of the series, PARADOX.
But life didn’t afford her the time to get serious about becoming an author until she’d had a long career working in office administration. Supporting herself didn’t leave much time for creative writing, although she always found time to read.
Her writing journey finally began in 2010. Staring at a blank page on her computer screen, she was determined to write something, but found herself at a loss – how to begin? Deciding to follow the old adage: write what you know, she couldn’t help thinking about a tale she’d started to spin when she was a little girl to help her get to sleep at night. Over the years, her reading inspired her with ideas, dimensions, and characters that she wove into her story and she decided to try writing it down as an exercise. That day, The Ming Realities was born.
She lives in Chicago and northern Michigan, dividing her time between her two homes, and is presently working on Book Two of the series, PARADOX.
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May 4, 2016
The Worlds of Ming
Ming is an engaging and delightful sci-fi novel that delivers a vibrant dose of romance and adventure. The story follows several characters, but primarily an intriguing woman, Ming, who has magical healing powers, but in using those powers, Ming has to suffer the pain and injuries that those she heals have gone through, leaving her wounded and vulnerable.
We first meet Ming at age three, when she meets an enigmatic character from the fourth dimension named Paradox, who tells Ming of her powers. Paradox appears throughout Ming’s life at key moments, offering advice and perspective, sort of like an angel or spirit guide, but with a wacky sense of humor.
The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic Earth and numerous Earth-like planets, where death is real, frequent, and painful, but with an afterlife, in which the author explores philosophical musings on multiple realities.
Ming finds true love—twice—or maybe three times, as a concluding afterlife scene hints.
The reader will spend plenty of time exploring future fantastic worlds and the struggles of good over evil, but often the development of various love relationships takes center stage.
The first romance is fairly brief and unconsummated (for complicated reasons—read the book) but this character, Prince Isha’el, plays important roles throughout the story, and perhaps in the sequel. Ming’s next—and very sexually exciting—relationship involves the commander, Gabe, of the spaceship Ming serves on. Gabe is murdered in a horrific explosion, bringing unimaginable pain to Ming, as she both grieves and suffers through the wounds Gabe would have felt had he survived. After Ming’s convalescence, she meets Sayel, who becomes Ming’s most important and fulfilling partner. Their romance develops and deepens over time, as the plot of good vs. evil thickens.
Another romantic but complicated relationship involves Ming’s gay bodyguard, Luke, and his lover, Cain. Luke’s life is dedicated to protecting Ming. Luke’s life partner, Cain, become jealous of Luke’s dedication to Ming, and the dark side of this imaginative world corrupts Cain into furthering the interests of evil. Cain then plots to destroy Ming.
The novel is fairly long, but the plot twists and imaginative characters and worlds kept me enthralled, with the overall narrative arc reaching a satisfying conclusion.
Ming contains memorable characters, compelling plot developments, and interesting worlds that have sounds, smells, and visual appeal. The author credibly conveys various different distant planet cultures and writes with a thoughtful, imaginative, and sexy voice. Readers will enjoy spending time in RL Grays’s inventive world of Ming.
Ming is an engaging and delightful sci-fi novel that delivers a vibrant dose of romance and adventure. The story follows several characters, but primarily an intriguing woman, Ming, who has magical healing powers, but in using those powers, Ming has to suffer the pain and injuries that those she heals have gone through, leaving her wounded and vulnerable.
We first meet Ming at age three, when she meets an enigmatic character from the fourth dimension named Paradox, who tells Ming of her powers. Paradox appears throughout Ming’s life at key moments, offering advice and perspective, sort of like an angel or spirit guide, but with a wacky sense of humor.
The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic Earth and numerous Earth-like planets, where death is real, frequent, and painful, but with an afterlife, in which the author explores philosophical musings on multiple realities.
Ming finds true love—twice—or maybe three times, as a concluding afterlife scene hints.
The reader will spend plenty of time exploring future fantastic worlds and the struggles of good over evil, but often the development of various love relationships takes center stage.
The first romance is fairly brief and unconsummated (for complicated reasons—read the book) but this character, Prince Isha’el, plays important roles throughout the story, and perhaps in the sequel. Ming’s next—and very sexually exciting—relationship involves the commander, Gabe, of the spaceship Ming serves on. Gabe is murdered in a horrific explosion, bringing unimaginable pain to Ming, as she both grieves and suffers through the wounds Gabe would have felt had he survived. After Ming’s convalescence, she meets Sayel, who becomes Ming’s most important and fulfilling partner. Their romance develops and deepens over time, as the plot of good vs. evil thickens.
Another romantic but complicated relationship involves Ming’s gay bodyguard, Luke, and his lover, Cain. Luke’s life is dedicated to protecting Ming. Luke’s life partner, Cain, become jealous of Luke’s dedication to Ming, and the dark side of this imaginative world corrupts Cain into furthering the interests of evil. Cain then plots to destroy Ming.
The novel is fairly long, but the plot twists and imaginative characters and worlds kept me enthralled, with the overall narrative arc reaching a satisfying conclusion.
Ming contains memorable characters, compelling plot developments, and interesting worlds that have sounds, smells, and visual appeal. The author credibly conveys various different distant planet cultures and writes with a thoughtful, imaginative, and sexy voice. Readers will enjoy spending time in RL Grays’s inventive world of Ming.
December 19, 2015
This book was given to me, I wanted to like it and I've tried to read this it several times but the author's writing is in need of an editor. I can't get through it. The writing is stilted, especially the dialog, and the book reads like a draft. There may be a kernel of a book in there, but it's not realized as published.
October 17, 2015
I loved it. I am reading it again. This deserves a TV series and or Movie. Can't wait for the second one to come out.
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