Darkrange [Paperback]

S. Roy L. Hawkins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 6, 2006

The time: perhaps eight hundred years after a cataclysmic interruption of the earth's rotation; a cosmic stumble that came near to wiping man and all of his doings from the face of the earth. The near-savage, sword-wielding descendants of the few survivors of that conflagration now inhabit a land that is clean, primal and beautiful, beautiful, except for one vast and mysterious tract known to all people of the world as the DARKRANGE. None may enter the Darkrange, for legend speaks of it as a place of the beforeones; the very domain of the devil himself. Now, while on a seasonal herb-gathering, a Doctor-woman has been stolen, and Odd, the premier battleman of the Ussen people of Shadowhill-grange, is selected to fetch her back. The trail of her abductors leads into the Darkrange. Odd follows, for he lives in an age of courage and honor, and can do no less. There, beyond the forbidden fringes and within the unworldly, moss-hung depths of the Darkrange, he learns the truth of the world, his people and begins to fathom his own terrible legacy.

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About the Author

Mr. Hawkins spent twenty-two years as a member of the United States Navy, served with distinction during the Vietnam era and, of course, experienced the civic unrest that accompanied those times.

During his lifetime he has seen much of the world, gotten to know a great many of it's people, and has experienced a diversity of cultures. He has fought in the prize ring, attained recognition as a martial artist, and found time to earn a degree in Law.

Mr. Hawkins now resides in Mobile, Alabama with his wife, Coe, where in addition to his writing, he works in the Shipbuilding industry.

Other books by Mr. Hawkins, besides Darkrange are The Avalonians, PROPHET-SEED and Scarab-4.

Product Details

• Paperback: 374 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (July 6, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1552129055
• ISBN-13: 978-1552129050
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,643,598 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous futuristic phenom, July 20, 2003

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This review is from: Darkrange (Paperback)

Eight centuries ago, give or take a decade or two as post catastrophic historical time is not precise, pandemic devastation occurred when the magnetic poles shifted. Most people drowned on continents flooded by the oceans; others died not long afterward. Over the next eight hundred years, the few survivors live a sparse nomadic lifestyle with tribes constantly vying with others as available sustenance is slight.

The Usenn know life is a bitch and then you die, but a local calamity strikes the tribe when invading strangers abduct a Doctor-Woman while she gathered herbs. The leaders assign their greatest warrior Odd to rescue the Doctor-Woman , but they have taken her to the forbidden eerie Darkrange, the last place even a great warrior like himself would not want to enter. However, Odd enters the uncanny realm not just out of honor and duty, but also because he loves the Doctor-Woman, though no one knows his deepest secret feelings.

The DARKRANGE is an exciting post apocalyptic tale that takes the audience on a powerful journey because this future earth seems like a genuine depiction of an orb impacted by a change in global polarization (as has happened in the eons of the planet). Odd is a great lead character whose physical prowess and consequently confidence in his abilities are legendary amidst his people, but now knows fear as he enters a real to be avoided, but his biggest apprehension is for the woman he loves. S. Roy L. Hawkins blends action-packed science fiction, a mystery of past present and future, and a touch of romance into a fabulous futuristic phenom that needs time for its one sitting read.

Harriet Klausner