Rogue's Angels Present: Apophis – Into the Folds of Darkness by Raj Anand

Please welcome Raj Anand author of Into the Folds of Darkness

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Apophis – Into the Folds of Darkness

by Raj Anand 

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GENRE: Sci-fi, Science Fiction

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INTERVIEW:

1. What part of the writing process do you dread?

Honestly, there isn’t really any part of the writing process TO dread! 

If writing is your passion and it is something that you feel, you were destined to do… then its joyful, in every moment. Although, yes - waiting and searching for that prescient moment, that epiphany – when the larger concept or the big idea – arrives! That sometimes takes many months and sometimes years. 

One just has to humbly accept the notion to continue to search – without searching; look without looking; and wait for the Universe to whisper – the story that you JUST HAVE TO SHARE with the world!

2. How long have you been writing?

I think I have been writing since I was perhaps 15 years old. We all arrive at a moment where a place, a book or a person inspires one to uncover – who you really should become. In my case it was my high school English teacher in New York - Mrs. Silver who inspired me to take reading and writing seriously. Although I kept it a secret for a long time, I was certain that was something I must do in this lifetime!

3. Do you ever suffer from writer’s block? If so, what do you do about it?

I am not sure what a writer’s block is? If you tell me that the writer’s block is a quest for you to find the subject and the story that you are going to write about? Then yes! That is a long, arduous wait and patient search.

From my perspective (and it is only my perspective), I truly believe that – either you SHOULD WRITE BIG or you should go home! I mean, the story that you are going to write and share has to be EPIC! 

Anything less, then its best to silently put it away in a drawer and continue with your quest, to find THAT EPIC STORY!

4. Tell us about your latest release.

The book and the story are within the realm of Science Fiction. But the story is about philosophy, ethics, a search for our true purpose here on Earth and beyond into Space – where we shall soon begin to journey, regularly. It is a story about finding our roots in humanity’s conjoined Shamanic past and asking questions about our common past. An adventure about five, 9-year-old sentient beings, who are reincarnations of ancient philosophers from what is historically known as THE AXIAL AGE.

5. Tell us something about your newest release that is NOT in the blurb.

Honestly, there isn’t much that the blurb can or does reveal.

The complexity and the magic that resides within the book is for the reader to discover. The story about our shared past from which we need to learn in order to move forward – beyond earth. 

I honestly have done my best with the book blurb to obfuscate and then take the reader across an unfathomable journey to eventually discover the truth about who we really are? 

BLURB:

January, 2022: A dark monstrous twin-headed apparition – Apophis – feverishly races past the expanse of the Milky Way galaxy and bolts to the edge of the solar system. Recklessly accelerating, the sinister rock-dyad enters the gravitational keyhole of the blue planet and continues its resolute inebriated journey – to soon arrive with an apocalyptic impact on Earth.

December, 2012: Five sentient beings born in different cities – New York, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Azores Islands and Istanbul, discover amongst haunting memories of their phantasmal past lives, that it is their destiny to save humanity from the evil forces unleashed by the alien fiends – the Skyllats.

And now, the reincarnated 9-year-olds must rely on their shared, ancient wisdom to prepare humanity for the war across the galaxy that is imminent.

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EXCERPT:

The Barred Spiral Milky Way Galaxy

At the Edge of the Solar System

January 17, 2022 (Earth Time)

A dark monstrous apparition, slingshot from across another realm, camouflaged in a jagged, charcoal black rock, adroitly surfed the gravitational waves of the universe. Feverishly racing past the expanse of the Milky Way galaxy, it bolted to the edge of the solar system and arrived from above the plane of the ecliptic – gyrating closer to the sun.

The dark fiend continued its charge forward, cutting across the path of Venus – nearly crashing onto it, before it deftly decelerated and reached a stable orbit in a retrograde rotation around the pale-yellow planet. This tenacious temporary satellite immediately scrambled to steal a fragment of the protesting planet’s enormous momentum. Catapulted along the plain of the ecliptic, recklessly accelerating at an impossible speed – it shattered, splitting into two.

The newly formed rock dyad – a small black moon orbiting a sphere of death – pulled free from Venus. It continued its inebriated journey, salivating at the opportunity to rain a resolute chaos upon an orphic azure-blue bubble still 40 million kilometers away.

Unbeknownst to the alien rock dyad, a faint sliver of gold orbited nearby. The 7.5-meter-tall and 3.2-meter wide Sentinel Space Telescope clothed in a gold foil, with a giant heat-reflector shield strung along its back; cooled to 40 degrees Kelvin by a two stage, closed cycle Stirling cryocooler. Its 0.51-meter aluminum mirror, dutifully scanned any and all Inner Earth Objects larger than 90 meters in diameter that ever dared to fly across its 200-degree angle of regard.

The Sentinel Observatory, alarmed by the presence of the ghostly twin-headed monster, recorded the black rock dyad’s trajectory, shape, size, mass, and rotational dynamics, before it urgently sent a coded message to its home base in southern Japan.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Savinder Raj Anand is an architect and has been teaching Architecture & Design at various Universities in India for more than 12 years. A long-distance runner with a wanderlust to explore the world, and write stories that traverse across diverse cultures. He lives in Goa with his daughter, a dog, and two cats. 

Inspired by his then 18-month-old daughter – when she quoted Socrates – while they together sat in a children’s bookstore in Bangalore (LIGHTROOM) in early January of 2015, he has completed this – his first book – as she turns 7 years old.

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