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Ahâ-Men-Ptah - Part One: The Empire of the Islands

by Joseph Munlo

653 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-2071; ISBN 1-4251-4805-0; US$36.94, C$42.48, EUR28.80, £19.09

The end of Atlantis as you had never imagined.

About the Book

Milseon's ambition to create his own empire at the other side of the world threatens the integrity of the millenary and powerful Ahâ-Men-Ptah. However, Firdonio, suspecting his real intentions, is alert trying to avoid it while he finds the necessary proof to unmask Milseon before the emperor that is still trusting in his loyalty and in the loyalty of some kings which don't seem to care about the future of the empire or of their gods.

When Milseon realises the only obstacle to achieve his longed-for independence is Firdonio's tenacity, he won't hesitate to do everything he can to kill him, accuse one of his sons of trying to kill the emperor or instigating riots in the colonies the Islands have all around the world and to blame him before the emperor and the other kings.

Finally he succeeds in convincing the other kings that Firdonio is guilty of all the misfortunes of the empire and that they have to declare war on him. So, Firdonio and his family will be embroiled in all kind of difficult situations while they try to find the evidence to prove their innocence before the armies of Ahâ-Men-Ptah march against them.

Although accurately based on Plato's descriptions about the Atlantis, I have tried to reflect in this novel some of the mysteries of the Antiquity that the most orthodox historians don't want to accept: aircraft that work with gas cylinders, use of electricity, powerful mentals, rejuvenation ceremonies beside the pyramids, use of powder, incredible technologies, air battles… All those things some impossible discoveries and myths make us dream about, have been recreated in this historical fiction by someone that sincerely believes in the truths that had been distorted as time goes by until they have become imaginative fables… By someone that would like this world to have existed.

About the Author

Born in 1964 and Bachelor in History, he works for the Spanish Government. His main literary hobby is science-fiction (his previous novels are of that genre). Fascinated since childhood with the legends about the antiquity and specially with the mythical Atlantis, he devoted several years to try to weaving a plot which could manifest all the strange events History couldn't or didn't want to explain. Ahâ-Men-Ptah is the result of those efforts.

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