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Read The Ultimate Battle, book 3 of the Geordie space opera masterpiece trilogy The Owner of the Crown. Probably the greatest sci-fi adventure of the 21st century.
Dr Pearson and his allies must recover the dearly departed Nicola Berlin from the afterlife world of Heaven. Of course, they know it will be one thing finding her; but quite another to attempt to convince her to leave Heaven. Then there’s the matter of helping Queen Suzama gather an army to fight Saliman’s forces if they are to have any hope of completing their quest to deliver the Golden Crown to her Lower Earth, Heartbind citadel. There will be so many obstacles to overcome or at lease survive. And even if they succeed in delivering the crown, how could it make any difference when the omnipotent Saliman will inevitably corner them?
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The Ultimate Battle
The Owner of the Crown: 3. The Ultimate Battle
A Wide-ranging Alternative Realities Sci-Fi Novel by T. J. P. Campbell
Dr Pearson and his allies must take a detour from their journey to the Lower Earth to attempt to recover the dearly departed Nicola Berlin from the afterlife world of Heaven. They begin by opening a portal onto the shuttle craft Epic to renew their acquaintance with Captain Palmer. Of course, they know it will be one thing finding Nicola; but quite another to attempt to convince her to leave Heaven. Then there’s the matter of helping Queen Suzama gather an army to fight Saliman’s forces if they are to have any hope of completing their quest to deliver the Golden Crown to her Lower Earth, Heartbind citadel.
There will be so many obstacles to overcome or at lease survive. And even if they succeed in delivering the crown, how could it make any difference when the omnipotent Saliman will inevitably corner them?
Ready yourself among other things for Olivia a computer who can take android form, the City of the Religious Angels on Herados, an array of differing Angels, Eve the Tree of Knowledge, the unusual afterlife worlds of Heaven and Hell, the Valley of the Shadow of Death, the German prisoner of war children of Death Camp 27, the skeleton pirates Captain Gold and his merry English Sea Dogs, the Dark Angel Bathin and his flying horse Bree, the Great Marquis of Hell Phenex (a rogue Scientific Angel) and his twenty legions of demons, planet of the Primirs, the final stretch through The Links, the Lower Earth, Droiks, the Lodestone Cave, Bloodlock Dragons, the Fearmaker mushrooms, Queen Suzama’s Heartbind citadel, the Angels of Light, 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 third and final instalment of probably the greatest adventure of the 21st century.
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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 Ultimate Battle (Book 3 of The Owner of the Crown trilogy) is a 175,000 word alternative realities sci-fi novel by T. J. P. Campbell.
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The Ultimate Battle
T. J. P. CAMPBELL’S LETTER OF INSPIRATION FOR HIS THE OWNER OF THE CROWN TRILOGY:
Dear Reader,
I was initially inspired to write The Owner of the Crown trilogy by my fruitless attempts to teach some Geordie pupils in Blyth, Northumberland a number of years ago.
Some strange goings on took place at the school I taught in— very strange. And even though this trilogy involves ghosts, aliens, afterlife worlds and starships, there are noisy rumours it portrays a true story.
You might be interested to know that a few years after I left the school, it was completely demolished. Flattened into a car park. The school being Blyth Delaval County Middle School on the Plessey Road. Google it!
However, even if this trilogy may be based on some solid facts (as impossible as such a thing might be to believe) I want you to know the characters and the school it features are entirely fictitious (though the school’s grounds its buildings and their rooms are accurately based on the now demolished Delaval County Middle School). Of course, those of you with high intelligence may very well conclude that this does not mean the characters do not exist— just that they do not exist in our world. There is much more of this sort of quantum craziness in the trilogy.
So this trilogy features, among other strange things, some pupils and other characters from the town of Blyth. As some of you may know, Blyth is a Northumbrian town 11½ miles north of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Now the Geordie dialect and accent can sometimes seem unfathomable to the likes of me, so just in case you’re new to it, I’ve put some “normal” English translations of common Geordie words and phrases at the beginning of each book. You can also look up famous Geordie celebrities on YouTube. The best example might be the famous Geordie comedian Ross Noble. Why? Because it was his mother who used to teach in my tutor room before I joined the school. A copper nameplate on the classroom door read “Mrs Noble”. You won’t find that on Google, though it does mention on Wikipedia that both Ross Noble’s parents were teachers. Similarly, Sarah Millican is a famous Geordie female comedian, and if you imagine her and Ross Noble as children, then you will have a rough idea of the inimitable school pupil characters in the trilogy.
Let me just say, though every Geordie pupil appears to be a natural stand-up comedian, I can’t for the life of me explain the way they think. I’d have to have a Nobel Prize in psychology to even attempt to do such a silly thing. I do have a school 10-yard swimming certificate, but this doesn’t seem to help either— although I wouldn’t be surprised to find that a Geordie pupil might easily prove it should. That’s the magical inimitable Geordies for you. You get the picture?
Finally, I hope readers of all ages, adults and children, get to enjoy this trilogy. I wrote it to be understood at many different levels, such as scientifically, philosophically, politically and sociologically. However, it should fundamentally stand out as a vast cinematic awesome rollicking science fiction space opera odyssey. At its heart a splendiferous tale of derring-do and the perennial fight of good versus evil. Hopefully this trilogy will lift up even further the spirits of all Geordies and really put Blyth deservedly on the International literary map. So dear reader, let me take your mind by the hand and lead it through a Universe of diverse extraordinary imagination . . .
T. J. P. Campbell
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Geordie Meanings:
Geordie English
Alreet All right
Aroond Around
Aye Yes
Auld Old
Bairn Child/Baby
Boggle Ghost
Bonny Nice
Botty Bottom
Canna Cannot (can’t)
Champion Good/feeling fantastic
Cowld Cold
Daft Apeth an absolute idiot
Divvie Stupid person
Divin’t kna Don’t know
Eeee! Oh! (very frequently used)
Fettle State of condition
Gowk Complete and utter twit
Ganin Going
Glaiky Foolishly idiotic
Hadaway, man I don’t believe you
Heed Head
Hinny Girl
Lang Long
Looka Look
Ma/Me My
Man Other than meaning “Man’ it is used constantly to punctuate phrases (eg, Eeee, man!). In these cases “man’ loosely refers to the person or object being addressed.
Moby A modern term for an early twenty-first century Internet mobile device. Used frequently by Geordie children in this trilogy.
Na No
Nettie Toilet
Nowt Nothing
Petal Nice person
Smaal Small
Tackin’ aboot Talking about
Way aye Yes, that’s right
Why aye Why, of course
T. P. Campbell will be using Geordie in the trilogy’s dialogue in a way that the reader should easily be able to follow, just to give its essence. If he tried to write it exactly as it was spoken, it would fast become irritating if not impossible for the reader to read and translate. This form of “cheating” is a well-known literary device called artistic licence. You see, T. J. P. Campbell as an author wants you as a reader to enjoy the uniqueness and comedic brilliance of everything it means to be Geordie without being bogged down by it. He makes no apologies to the purists out there because this story is not just for them, but for everyone (even any aliens who, if they exist, might one day decide to give reading the trilogy a go).
Right, let us just go on to discuss a few Geordie words of particular interest, then it’s straight on to the Multiverse-stretching grandiose high-octane extravaganza-busting space opera of a story.
The use of the word “man” is perhaps the most difficult to describe. In its simplest form it is supposed to be used to address a person being spoken to irrelevant of whether they are male or female. This has been extended to other animals and even objects. It’s got to the stage where it seems to be used as a comfort word to punctuate sentences with. T. J. P. Campbell once heard a Geordie schoolgirl say, “What a stupid man, man.” Here the schoolgirl is passing scurrilous comment on a man to whomever she is talking to (who could be anyone, a group of people, no one in particular, or even herself). One thing T. J. P. Campbell discovered is that if used in the usual way we all use “man” a Geordie will sound the word subtly differently to when he or she uses it to punctuate a sentence. So, to summarise, if a Geordie pupil said, “What a stupid man, man,” both the “man”s would sound similar yet subtly different, and it would seem a normal thing for them to say, too.
And just to say, the exclamation “Eeee” is heard constantly during any Geordie chitchat and probably almost as much as the word “man” (which T. J. P. Campbell found to be the most commonly used word among the Geordie pupils).
The greatest thing T. J. P. Campbell discovered about Geordies is that when they are funny, they are funnier than others can hope to be. The same goes for when they are angry or overjoyed. Somehow, they seem to exaggerate emotions in a naturally believable way. Luckily, this makes for highly entertaining drama, which hopefully the trilogy will convey.
Okay then, hopefully you will enjoy the trilogy. Expect the unexpected. Expect a story the likes of which you’ve never heard before—that’s Geordies for you!
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A WALLPAD ORANGE
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KING TRUMP
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ONCE UPON A …
THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT
THE LOST LITTLE ANT
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METAFICTION
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