The Owner of the Crown: 1. The Eccentric Crosser by T. J. P. CAMPBELL.

The Owner of the Crown: 1. The Eccentric Crosser

A Wide-ranging Alternative Realities Sci-Fi Novel by T. J. P. Campbell

In the year 2026, extreme right-wing governments around the world are strengthening their grip on the masses. In keeping with their nefarious standards, the English fascist educational authorities send London born Dr Pearson, a teacher of mathematics teaching in an excellent school in Cambridge and nearing retirement, to the toughest school in the country in Blyth, Northumberland. Their obvious intention being to legally steal Dr Pearson’s pension by forcing him to either resign or commit a sackable offence under the pressure of attempting to teach in such a tough school.

In this first book of the trilogy, Agatha Cookson, a woman Northumbrians mistakenly believe to be a ghost, visits in a number of unique ways the downtrodden, eccentric, yet defiant Dr Pearson. She warns him that the cruel educational authorities are the least of his problems and that he and nine of his plucky pupils (together forming the Intrepid Ten) must, with her help, engage on a quest to save the Multiverse.

Dr Pearson’s tenuous grip on sanity is put to the ultimate test as he is prepared mentally for the challenge ahead through the experience of visiting a number of different alternative realities involving not only distant and parallel worlds, and not only an afterlife world, but also peculiar shifts in Dimension, Time and Space. But despite the bombardment of preparation he receives, he refuses to fully believe the truth of his predicament even though as the “Crosser” he was the trigger for it.

Alas, time quickly starts running out, as an awakened personification of evil, Saliman, once a man and now a monster, is growing stronger and eviler by the second with only Agatha Cookson able to slow his inevitable progress to omnipotence.

For now, the fate of the Multiverse rests entirely in Dr Pearson’s ability to accept the truth of the deadly threat surrounding him. How can this paranoid, doubting, downtrodden, eccentric, yet defiant teacher bordering on insanity finally accept his perilous predicament before it’s too late?

Ready yourself among other things for alternative reality visits to the Second World War London Underground, to the afterlife world of Purgatory, to some Siliconian tunnels housing the Theatre of Dreams, the luxurious Siliconian Congressional Hotel, a Disneyland with representative counterpart characters, the jungle world of Zandarix, the borderline world of Mirvad.

Ready yourself among other things also for Agatha Cookson (one time Golden Woman), a living macguffin, Starship Epic’s Captain Steve Palmer and his crew, The Siliconian Zircon, Dragonians, the Inbetweenies, Azrael (one of the Angels of Death), the evil dark Angels Rajin and Lamia, The evil Roubal aliens, the Created Ones, a door into the future and a door into the past, The pure horror and evilness of Saliman, The majesty of Queen Suzama, Dr Pearson’s eccentricity, Erica Ashbarten’s tremendous bravery and Nicola Berlin’s inimitable comedy.

Ready yourself for the first instalment of probably the greatest adventure of the 21st century.

______________

Some may mistakenly label The Owner of the Crown trilogy under the genre of fantasy. However, although it is certainly phantasmagorical, it contains a story that could be true (despite its incredibleness) and any apparent magic is probably a disguise for advanced science and technology.

The Owner of the Crown trilogy will surely entrance readers who were enthralled by C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Material trilogy, Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, and the science fiction space opera novels of Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Clifford Simak, Arthur Clarke and Ursula Le Guin. Yes, it really is that much of an all-encompassing Multiverse-stretching kaleidoscopic odyssey with humour and heartrending circumstances to bolster its telling.

Probably the greatest sci-fi adventure of the 21st century.

The Owner of the Crown: A sci-fi odyssey the likes of which literature has never known— that’s Geordies for you! 

The Eccentric Crosser (Book 1 of The Owner of the Crown trilogy) is a 144,000 word wide-ranging alternative realities sci-fi novel by T. J. P. Campbell.

 Buy it now!