Mage of Fools

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Pub Date Mar 15 2022 | Archive Date Dec 31 2021
Mage of Fools | Meerkat Press
Horror | Sci Fi & Fantasy

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In the dystopian world of Mafinga, Jasmin must contend with a dictator’s sorcerer to cleanse the socialist state of its deadly pollution. Mafinga's malevolent king dislikes books and, together with his sorcerer Atari, has collapsed the environment to almost uninhabitable. The sun has killed all the able men, including Jasmin’s husband Godi. But Jasmin has Godi’s secret story machine that tells of a better world, far different from the wastelands of Mafinga. Jasmin’s crime for possessing the machine and its forbidden literature filled with subversive text is punishable by death. Fate grants a cruel reprieve in the service of a childless queen who claims Jasmin’s children as her own. Jasmin is powerless—until she discovers secrets behind the king and his sorcerer.

In the dystopian world of Mafinga, Jasmin must contend with a dictator’s sorcerer to cleanse the socialist state of its deadly pollution. Mafinga's malevolent king dislikes books and, together with...

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A Note From the Publisher

Eugen Bacon is African Australian, a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. She’s the author of Claiming T-Mo by Meerkat Press and Writing Speculative Fiction by Red Globe Press, Macmillan. Eugen’s work has won, been shortlisted, longlisted or commended in national and international awards, including the Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards and Nommo Award for Speculative Fiction by Africans. Website: www.eugenbacon.com Twitter: @EugenBacon

Eugen Bacon is African Australian, a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. She’s the author of Claiming T-Mo by Meerkat Press and Writing Speculative Fiction by Red Globe...

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Advance Praise

 When the final chapter of a book ends with the heading “DENOUEMENT” you know instinctively that you are in the presence of a master—or in this case, a mistress of words! Armed with her all-conquering sword for carving unforgettable, lyrical and magical prose, Dr. Eugen Bacon has, yet again, delivered in her latest book, Mage of Fools.

A dystopian story, set in a mystical African kingdom manipulated by “Menticides” (a bunch of tech-savvy teenagers sequestered in a castle set high above the village), Mage of Fools is a cautionary tale for every age. The all-seeing and all-pervasive Ujamaa conglomerate rules everything in this bleak kingdom—Ujamaa Factory, Ujamaa Tech, Ujamaa Medic, Ujamaa Yaya…the list is endless and the misery Ujamaa brings is relentless. As a powerful idiom in the story goes, “The cockroach that wants to rule the chickens, hires the pale fox as a bodyguard” and Mafinga Kingdom is indeed labouring under the unremitting misery of pale foxes and their vile cockroaches.

I invite you to experience the magical gift that is Mafinga Kingdom, and the wizardry of the stranger Atari, the Rasputinian demon? Golem? Sorcerer? Alien? Or perhaps, something more sinister and diabolic? I’ll leave you, my fellow enthralled readers, to discover the thrilling and gripping truth for yourselves, as you join me in praising this brilliant, powerful, and mind-blowing Dystopian novel by the unrivalled Dr Eugen Bacon.

-NUZO ONOH, "Queen of African Horror"

When the final chapter of a book ends with the heading “DENOUEMENT” you know instinctively that you are in the presence of a master—or in this case, a mistress of words! Armed with her...

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ISBN 9781946154668
PRICE $15.95 (USD)
PAGES 200

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