When the consigliere and I uploaded Ancient Futures onto Amazon Kindle about a year ago, we weren't really taking it seriously. Self publishing, I thought, wasn't going to bring home the bacon. Recently, I've been persuaded otherwise, so we are now going to relaunch it with a cover by Rosalynd McKenzie and a new product description by myself. The product description is just like the blurb you get on books. Here's the product description:
This epic adventure is set in a world without any real place in geography or time, but it is a world with many similarities to our own..
This world was once a barren place where life was hard and the population sparse, but due to the secret elixir, produced by The Factory, the wealth of the planet increased and the population multiplied and multiplied and multiplied until it seemed to some that the planet could no longer support such numbers. The weather began to change. The atmosphere grew thinner and the sun became hotter. Where once it had been warm was now cold. Where it was once still, storms raged. Strange illnesses began to appear in people everywhere.
The ordinary people saw these changes as signs, as portents, as omens. Among the poor and dispossessed persisted a belief in a Hidden One, a messiah who was silent and waiting till the time was ripe to wage holy war against the evil ones governed by mammon, ego, and lust.
They prayed for this saviour to come among them, unite the people and drive their enemies into the sea. His coming would right the wrongs of the world and usher in a new age of justice and purity and truth. His coming was foretold for the end of the millenium and the year was 996.
It was about this time that King Oroc began to wage war ....
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