The Conspiracy of the Ravens: A biomythographic metafictional hypernarrative

It is not to unusual when a dying author sits down to pen his last book.

What makes it unusual is when the book is about Rains-a-Lot, the warrior who ate Thomas Custer’s Heart, Ivy d’ Seille, a child soldier and veteran of the French Resistance, Dr. Kelle Brainerd, holder of three Ph.D.s in Reality Physics, and a purple 1957 Chevy holding the spirit of a New Orleans Macumba from the 19th century.

What makes it even more unusual is that McKeeby, as his brain is destroyed by constant epileptic seizures, follows the characters in his book to a magical land and forms a conspiracy with a group of magical ravens to propel the characters forward across the land, hoping that the story will be completed before he suffers the ultimate fate of brain damage and death.

Throw in to this a sinister corporation, rumors of a war brewing across time, a undead master of time named Darkness, Janis Joplin caught in a time loop, the rock band the Portals, and the powerful bipolar Queen of Fire and Ice, and you have a book that a marginally famous person speaking under the influence said was “ten pounds of crazy in a five pound sack,”, a popular government official said after reading the book “everything that is wrong with the 420 movement,” and a homeless veteran living near the 405 overpass in Glendale said, “makes perfect sense to me.”

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Captain’s Log: A Cosmic Cab

When the planet Tavansor is erased from space and time in a surprise attack, a five year old boy manages to escape from the surface with a broken piece of alien technology, becoming the sole survivor of a cosmic war.

Although he ends up getting adopted on Earth, he is compelled to break free from his terrestrial boundaries to discover worlds and life forms undreamt of, and so he combines his derelict “dimension drive” with an equally rickety taxi cab to begin his expedition to the stars, and beyond.

Inspired by human science fiction stories, he dons the name “Captain” and sets off to make his mark upon the wild, inter-dimensional expanse of the Universe, where he encounters strange and exotic beings of all kinds, from flying brains in jars to titanic space gods to sentient lightning; meets new friends and allies, declaring them a part of his Crew; and confronts vicious enemies hell-bent on subjugating and destroying entire civilizations, learning to reconcile his Tavansor inclinations with Earth values all the while.

And on the horizon a storm gathers, a coming terror known only as the Reckoning, which the Captain purposes himself to defeat, if that is indeed possible.

A Cosmic Cab is all about the journey of a dual-brained, plasma-blooded youth into unbelievable landscapes, life-threatening situations, and ultimately into adulthood. It collides the optimism and adventurous spirit of works like Doctor Who and Star Trek with the uncanny, mind-blasting grandeur of Lovecraft, resulting in a unique adventure that is an homage to pulp sci-fi, and the beginning of a series of outlandish daring-dos and intriguing mysteries, inching ever closer to a grand confrontation wherein the fate of all existence hangs in the balance.

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