Merlin's Son

Merlin's Son is a book fabricated using the genre of historical fiction. Meteor was the only son of Merlin, the celebrated alchemist and advisor to King Arthur and mentor to William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England. Meteor was born 23, March AD 1066. His namesake was derived from the occurrence of a prodigious shooting star seen in the sky on the night of his birth. It would betide that the shooting star that was observed was the 18th reappearance of Halley's Comet in known human history. This novel is created with a kaleidoscope of scenes from antiquity and brings to the twenty-first century reader a rich tapestry of ancient history as well as the modern era. The narrative flows to three Wonders of the Ancient World including the mesmerizing city of Babylon and its enthralling hanging gardens; the resplendent city of Alexandria and its magnificent forty-story lighthouse and finally the pyramids in Egypt including the Great Pyramid of Giza, as well as the older Step Pyramid of Djoser in the Saqqara necropolis near Memphis, Egypt. The content and form of the early chapters parallel the simplicity of language, but surreal imagination of this nascent phase of life. Later, the youngster matures into an adolescent, and the dialogue phosphoresces to this transitional high energy state of being. At the end of adolescence, emotions are exalted with a scintillating narrative that champions the most numinous love stories of Western Civilization. In the end, the child has now evolved into an adult and has the opportunity to perceive the full cornucopia of a life well lived, with its splendiferous moments of ecstasy, but also with the liniments of real instants of the agony of fate.