Magic Monday

Midnight is just a few moments away, and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted.  If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.1 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. 

Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says.  And further:  I've decided that questions involving the evocation of spirits are permanently off topic here. The point of occultism is to develop your own capacities, not to try to bully or wheedle other beings into doing things for you. I've discussed this in a post on my blog.

The image? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book above on the left was my thirty-third published book and my second published novel. It had a long genesis:  I wrote it as a series of one-a-month blog posts over a four year period, from late 2004 to early 2009. I'd previously done several brief fictional pieces on The Archdruid Report, the blog I had in those days, using the tools of fiction to talk about the future we were heading for; I decided to see if I could do something a little longer and more ambitious -- and Star's Reach was the result. It's set in the 2470s in Meriga, which is what they call "America" by then; two civil wars and a long process of technological decline have landed most Merigans in something not that different from a medieval society, though it's by no means identical to medieval Europe. In that future, a very large share of raw materials come from urban ruins, extracted by members of the guild of ruinmen...and it's while nearly getting killed dismantling a ruin that one young ruinman, Trey sunna Gwen, finds a clue to a legendary place where humanity might once have talked with intelligent beings from another world -- a place called Star's Reach.

It's an early novel of mine and there are aspects of it that seem clumsy to me now, but on the whole it still works very well. It's held together largely by Trey's distinctive first-person voice as he narrates his journey and his reflections, by turns clueless and shrewd, on the world of his time and the old world it replaced. Just at the moment it's temporarily out of print, but will be back on the shelves in November of this year; you can preorder a copy here if you live in the US and here if you live elsewhere.

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I've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

And don't forget to look up your Pangalactic New Age Soul Signature at CosmicOom.com.

With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed--as in, no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***