Bøger af Eldon Crowe

It's 1979 and shy, awkward, 13-year old Derek St. James has just been sent to a remote summer camp in the wilds of the Ontario Muskokas. His geeky reputation and his take-charge femme-fatale cousin seem to be the only things that can protect him, but, though it promises to be twelve days of abject torture and humiliation, things slowly begin to become more than he at first imagines. He begins to learn about the world around him, the value of friends, and most especially about himself.

In Fall, Adam and Eve lived in harmony with the animals in the Garden of Eden, enjoying Abba Father's rich blessings. Then their encounter with Nahash, the deceiving serpent, left them banished and forbidden to ever return, plunging the world into sin. In Fallen, their children, Cain, Azura, and Abel, sought to continue to hear and to follow Abba Father's voice, sometimes with success but sometimes with tragic results, but leaving a heritage of enmity between the future branches of the burgeoning human race instead: the lines of Cain and of Seth, the husband of Azura. Now, in Flood, the world that has been created with such promise and hope in Eden is utterly corrupt and evil. And now even the Eneph, the Fallen Ones, have arisen and walk the Earth, abominations of the Creation and products of the corruption of both humanity and fallen angels. Abba Father, filled with pain, is determined to destroy the world he has created and the swiftly growing humanity that spreads its sinful taint all over its surface. Only a small remnant, the last of the line of Seth, has a hope of survival. The family of Noah, dwelling in the Valley of Seth, is facing the quickly mounting hostility of Lamech, powerful Cainite king of Kalneh, the Great City, and of all the plain. Noah has been moved by Abba Father to leave their old, protected home in the valley and now, against rapidly shrinking odds and pursued by enemies scenting Seth's final defeat, he must trust in Abba Father as he has never done before to deliver him and his family from the Flood.

The thousand-year Empire of Sammos, the Holy Mother of Cities, is dying. The Krahl, sublime ruler of the pagan Odrum, has encircled its once-glittering capital, Sammkos, on both land and sea and is ready to deliver the last, killing blow. And now it seems that Fate has chosen a wounded, betrayed, fearful man to gather what scant hope remains in the beleaguered City. For Agriabus, Prefect of the Purple, has suffered the unendurable betrayal of his own son, who has wounded him in an impetuous duel before fleeing to the Krahl, must confront an increasingly mad Lord Engineer who wants to find salvation only in ancient, dark arts, and try to steel an Emperor who can only abase himself within the Shrine of Sammos, surrounded by flickering shadows, and past failures.And time is running out.

It's the early 22nd century and Earth is ravaged by a spreading, lethal inundation of radioactivity. The World Council, unable to deal with the situation, gives way to the dictatorial Collective, a nebulous and arbitrary body of scientists and bureaucrats who, alone, possess the means to save what is left of humanity by choosing who will leave the dying planet in a massive, global 'Launch' - to a heretofore unknown 'Network' of orbiting space stations.Now, a generation later, the human survivors of the Network cling to life in the face of a finite supply of food and energy. But they may have found a way out - a Doorway through space.Dr. Mariss Arlen Keppeler, whose father's particle emitter has proven to be the Key to this astral door, must now convince Newton Idris, the Network's autocratic Director and one-time rival of her father, and the rest of the 'suits and coats' (as she calls them) who rule the Network, to allow her to follow upon the heels of Alpha, the first crewed mission through the doorway. That ship had been captained by her husband, Brayton, and has not been seen or heard from in eleven long months.Resources are scant and finally Mariss is allowed to go - in only a one-man Scout - to find out what happened to Alpha and, if necessary, to complete its mission; to find another home for a humanity losing hope - beyond the Portal.

The Fall has come, changing everything that Adam and Eve have ever known. Now they have been exiled from Eden, their idyllic and beautiful home, and thrust out into a much larger and harsher world. Here they must eke out a new life in the mountains shadows, among the fields where they have gathered some sheep for shearing and milking and have planted hardy crops of millet and barley. It is a difficult existence, and even as they teach their sons, Akah-Nah and Habeh-Lah, and their daughter, Hazuh-Rah, about the lost joys of the Beginning Place in regular remembrances and cling to a desperate hope that God may yet allow them to return, they are confronted by new fears. In the east, there is a vast, open, unknown land, which the mountains do not cut off and which may hold a frightening secret: a challenge to their own views of themselves and of their unique place in the world. In the west looms a foreboding forest, separating them from Eden, and perhaps holding a secret of its ownthe new dwelling place of their old enemy who deceived them in the Garden. In this stark, new reality, feelings grow strong and sharp. And soon one brother turns against another with consequences unimaginable for a familyand even a worldthat is Fallen.

Something Bad lurks in the fields and amongst the trees of the Garden where Hadah-Muh and Ahah-Wah have lived in harmony with all the Animals and tended the fruits and the vegetables something not Good. Habbah-Ah, He Who dwells in the Beyond above and Who sometimes comes to walk with them in the Garden has warned them of it. But they have forgotten. And now everything that is Good in this new, young, beautiful World is threatened. For Anah-Hashah, their Nemesis who has so patiently stalked them and plotted his revenge against them is, at last, about to strike. He has fed and nurtured but one goal in his spiteful heart through all of the passing Days in this Garden of Life: to open the way toward Death; to cause the Man and the Woman to Fall.