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 | Muntu: The Curse of Multiples by Eugen M. Bacon | Reviewed by Midge Baker | |
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| Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing Inc
http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/ ISBN: DDP1EBACON Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Sci-Fi Suspense Thriller Release date: February 2006 Format: ebook (multiformat) Pages: 42 Price: $1.99 | |||
| Book Excerpt: Prologue
"The Dreaming is an Aboriginal chronicle. A belief of how things happen. Why things are. Origins of land and culture. All beings have their Dreaming. But Dream Time is time before time; space before space. Transition of death raises things to Dream Time. But there are spirits whose path is lost. Trapped bunjips in the island of the dead. Souls that must find Dream Time or terrible things will pass. A Koori medium brings tranquility to such souls." Detective Ivory Storm boards a plane for a flight whose purpose she questions. A Serial killer is on the loose. The female victims are left in a demented trance for no which no medical cause can be found. The murdered men - all of them born one of twins - are butchered. The only male survivor is a non-twin gay man. He was left in the same state as the women. Operation Limelight, the task force Ivory is part of, has exhausted all other means to solve these crimes. Now, out of options, she's on her way to test her boyfriend's wacky notion. His theory? The killer is a bunjip, a trapped spirit in the Island of the Dead. A visit with a koori, a reclusive seer from Aboriginal country, is her questionable goal. Witchcraft. That never solved a crime, did it? Her flight lands at an airport in the Orange Crater country. A harrowing ride with a seemingly dullwitted - but terrified - aboriginal girl brings her to the koori's home. The girl refuses to go up the path to the house. Eyes lowered, she insists on waiting with the car. Ivory hopes she doesn't up and leave. Just as Ivory is about to knock on the door, it opens to darkness. The seer is home. She has seen all, knows all, including Ivory's disbelief. The caustic seer confronts Ivory. She reminds Ivory that her white man's education doesn't change her own aboriginal heritage. Listen, and learn, the koori reminds her. In the darkness, we are taken back and back into Dream Time. Thus we discover the legend of Muntu, whose dead twin is the murderous bunjip. The curse of multiples... In this first book of the Muntu trilogy, Ms. Bacon creates her mythic depiction. So truly does it mimic aboriginal traditions that I spent hours on the 'Net trying to find the original myth. There isn't one. The story is Ms. Bacon's own. But I bet you that somewhere in Dream Time it all really happened. The indigenous peoples just don't tell us about it. Be sure to check out the rest of the trilogy: Muntu (Book Two): The X & Y Genome and Muntu (BOOK 3): Inter-galactic Odyssey, also by Eugen M. Bacon from Double Dragon Publishing. | |||
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