SciFi and Fantasy eBook Club discussion

I love both Fantasy and Sci-Fi, so why not combine them? That was my mind set going into writing and part of the backstory behind my Maldene series. I also like big epics, so I created a world large enough to handle it all (several; times larger than Earth– and yes the increased gravity comes into the plot later on in the series). Sprinkle in a double handful of mysteries, my Ultimate Bad Guy, and there you go.
Planning? A lot. After all, we're talking 13 big books. I made a world map, cultural notes, unique weather systems, designed a Maldene Tarot Deck (any artists out there want to have a crack at drawing them up, I have the descriptions for each card), alphabet (the font file for it is downloadable from my web site), dictionary of local words (try "chupek" some time in place of an F-bomb; it means "rotten phlegm")... Yeah, I went all geek on this thing.

All of which is mere backdrop. I basically invented my own Multiverse for this little story, because that's how much it spans. But you want to hear more about the story (I hope). Okay then, putting on my Trailer-Guy narration voice...

On a world at the center of a faraway galaxy there lies a secret of literally cosmic proportionsl. One jealously hidden by the biggest bad guy of them all; a wizard feard even my the gods, but not for his sheer power. 'Miro' is a villain who plans centuries in advance, and has been waiting for the right set of heros to emerge to use in his carefully crafted plans. Heros intent on finding what Miro wants then stop him. Heroes who will do whatever it takes to fight the world's nemesis and gain the power and resources required to do so. And yet, in this endeavor Miro wishes them well, for it all feeds into his plans... just like everything inevitably does.

Thirteen books, 5.2 million words, 225 characters, several worlds, other plane of existence, and a span of time stretching thousands of years. THAT is my interpretation of the word 'epic'.
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Mark Anthony Tierno