Raymond Bolton’s crossover epic fantasy/sci-fi quartet, The Ydron Saga, which consists of Awakening and its prequel trilogy, Thought Gazer, Foretellers, and Triad, are published by WordFire Press, publisher of many bestselling and award-winning authors including Frank Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Alan Dean Foster, Mike Resnick, Brian Herbert, Tracy Hickman, and David Farland, as well as the Dune and Star Wars series.
His work has been endorsed by the late Mike Resnick, who says, "In Awakening, Raymond Bolton presents us with an intricate and interesting problem, characters you care for, aliens who -are- alien, and a carefully-thought-out future." International award-winning author of more than 100 books, Paul Kane, describes his work as, “Thoroughly imaginative, with an eloquent writing style and characters that live and breathe on the page.” D. J. Butler, author of Witchy Eye, calls his fifth novel, Folder, a self-published Young Adult science fiction novel, “A wild young-adult alternate-worlds adventure that will leave you guessing right up to the end! Fans of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials will love this!”
Wraith, his most recent work, received a pre-publication endorsement from Michael R. Collings, who was named Grand Master at the 2016 World Horror Convention: “Raymond Bolton’s Wraith presents an intriguing view of the intersections between the living and the dead. Beginning with a triple murder, this dark paranormal novel explores the consequences of betrayal, greed, infidelity, and vengeance on both sides of mortality… and in each instance, provides unexpected twists that propel readers onward, page after page. Bolton deftly shifts perspectives between the world of the Wraith and those he pursues with a fury that transcends death itself.”
“This expertly paced novel of gruesome vengeance will provide readers with a sense of unseemly pleasure as they watch it all play out.” – Kirkus Reviews
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A spirit returns to the world of the living with a vendetta against the men who killed him and an old colleague in Bolton’s horror novel.
Warren has a drinking problem, a marriage on the rocks, and a life on the brink of disaster. It’s cut short when a “trio of street thugs” nearly kill his spouse and succeed in murdering him and his two children. Warren’s final rest is short-lived, however, when he reawakens as a ghost bent on murderous revenge. His targets aren’t just his assailants, but also his former business partner and friend, Jordan, who, it turns out, has been having an affair with Warren’s wife and embezzling from the company for the past three years. Warren compares Jordan’s financial scheming to convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff’s—an effective juxtaposition that helps to get readers on the undead hero’s side. There’s a delicious playfulness to Bolton’s tale of haunting, which is sprinkled with campy, italicized lines, such as “I’m ba-ack,” which the protagonist delivers to his colleague-turned-enemy. This expertly paced novel of gruesome vengeance will provide readers with a sense of unseemly pleasure as they watch it all play out. Behind all the ghostly drama, however, is an intriguing exploration of what it means to become someone—or something—else. Other ghosts act as foils to Warren’s retributive desire, casting the novel as a dialogue on what it means to indulge a desire to even the score. But although these moral questions are skillfully woven into the story, it feels like it sometimes loses its way when it turns its ghastly characters into moralized monsters. The most enjoyable parts of the book focus on the main character’s plotting against his one-time partner, providing readers with an evil but gleeful poltergeist jaunt.
A mostly solid revenge fantasy with a ghoulish conceit.
How does a world armed with bows, arrows and catapults, where steam power is just beginning to replace horses and sailing ships, avert a conquest from beyond the stars?
Prince Regilius has been engineered to combat the Dalthin, a predatory alien species that enslaves worlds telepathically, and to do so he must unite his people. But when his mother murders his father, the land descends into chaos and his task may prove impossible. Faced with slaying the one who gave him life in order to protect his world, he seeks a better way. Set in a vast and varied land where telepaths and those with unusual mental abilities tip the course of events, Awakening goes to the heart of family, friendship and betrayal.
“In AWAKENING Raymond Bolton presents us with an intricate and interesting problem, characters you care for, aliens who -are- alien, and a carefully-thought-out future.”—Mike Resnick
“Raymond Bolton’s genre shattering Awakening is a skillfully woven hybrid of science fiction and fantasy that brings cultural conflict to a whole new, thoroughly believable level that goes straight to the heart of what really matters.”—Matthew J. Pallamary – author of Land Without Evil and Spirit Matters.
“Bolton navigates through the plot lines and the mixed genres (Science Fiction but not exactly, Fantasy but not entirely, Paranormal but not completely) with the clear gesture of the conductor of a large orchestra. A new voice and author who is bound to grow a faithful readership.”—Massimo Marino, international award-winning author of The Daimones Trilogy
“it’s a grand debut. An ambitious and well considered SF crossover [that] breathes originality into the genre"—BookViral
Podrá evitar la conquista que viene de más allá de las estrellas un mundo armado con arcos, flechas y catapultas, donde la energía de vapor apenas ha comenzado a reemplazar a los caballos y a los barcos de vela?
El príncipe Regilius ha sido transformado para combatir a los dalcin —una especie alienígena depredadora que esclaviza otros mundos telepáticamente— y, para hacerlo, debe unir a su pueblo. Pero cuando su madre asesina a su padre el reino se sume en el caos y puede resultarle imposible cumplir con su tarea. Resistiéndose a matar a quien le dio la vida por proteger a su mundo, busca una opción mejor. Ambientada en una tierra vasta y diversa donde telépatas y aquellos con habilidades mentales extraordinarias cambian el curso de los eventos, El despertar nos traslada a la médula de la familia, la amistad y la traición.
Eric Folder has moved to Oregon to attend Portland State University when an automobile accident leaves him stricken with migraine headaches. The resulting visual effects—something medical professionals term an aura—render him virtually blind and defenseless when a gang of street thugs attacks him. Desperate to see and needing to protect himself, Eric reflexively tears at the luminous lines of light and finds they have become tangible. When he pulls them aside, his present reality folds away with them, leaving him in better circumstances with his enemies vanished. Attempts to fold his way out of successive perils leave him in increasingly strange situations until, eventually, his world becomes a nightmare.
“A wild young-adult alternate-worlds adventure that will leave you guessing right up to the end! Fans of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials will love this!” —D. J. Butler, author of Witchy Eye
“A big, engaging ride across our infinite possibilities - and our choice to be heroes.” —Anthony Dobranski, author of The Demon in Business Class
In a world facing two divergent futures—eventual freedom or complete domination—too many unmade decisions cloud the yet-to-be. Those who can see even a tiny portion of the inevitable wield great power.
In this world where young and old, rich or poor, are at the mercy of armed marauders and the armies of the powerful, a warlord’s wrath forces a mother and daughter to flee for their lives. Despite being prescient, they cannot foresee all that lies ahead. Quickly separated, their every effort centers around reunion and survival. Without losing sight of these goals, one of them foresees that, if she travels to the conflict’s center and lends support to one of the two major powers, she has the ability to influence the final outcome.
Foretellers, the third volume of The Ydron Saga, is the second book of Awakening’s prequel trilogy.
Everyone who touches you transforms you, if only a little. But if you enter their minds and think what they have thought, in effect do what they have done…how complete will that transformation be?
If Peniff had been born an ordinary man, his family would be safe—safe as anyone can be in a land torn apart by war. It is his singular gift, however, that causes his wife and children to be imprisoned and held hostage and him to be used as a tool.
Caught up in a struggle between opposing warlords and refusing to play the game, Peniff elects to take the moral high road. This is the story of a man, in all other ways ordinary, rising above his fears to do what he must.
Can he free his family before his betrayal comes to light? Moreover, what will he become before his journey is over?
Thought Gazer, the second volume of The Ydron Saga, is the first book of the prequel trilogy to Awakening.
“Bolton breathes originality into the genre with his singular focus on telepathy.”—Stephan J Meyers, author/illustrator
“A clever and highly entertaining SF fantasy read, Thought Gazer takes The Ydron Saga to another level and is recommended without reservation!”—BookViral
"Thoroughly imaginative, with an eloquent writing style and characters that live and breathe on the page. Thought Gazer will definitely make you think!”—Paul Kane, bestselling and award-winning author of Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, Before, and Arcana.
Heroic battles are not always won by the mighty.
There are times when even the least likely among us play decisive rolls. Less able physically than anyone he knows, but paranormally unique, Bardik is recruited by a pair of psychics in the hope that, by combining his talent with theirs, they can turn looming defeat into victory. In this, the concluding chapter to The Ydron Saga, a young man who has lost the use of his legs—someone whom earthly culture labels paraplegic—agrees to lend his telekinetic talents to the effort to bring down a tyrannical warlord.
Triad, the fourth volume of The Ydron Saga, is the third book of Awakening’s prequel trilogy.
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