Les Lester says he wound up writing The Awakening of Khufu from a sci-fi perspective because he's always imagined what would it be like to bring a great person from history into the modern world. Meanwhile, he adds, on a sober note, that Western media outlets and publishers are still engaged in the complicit suppressing of the story of the Black pharaohs, the founders of Ancient Egypt.
"New titles still render Khufu, Ramses, Seti, Tutankhamen, and other pre-Roman and pre-Greek pharaohs as Arab-looking," he explains. "Why, the Arabs didn't arrive in Egypt until the year 639 AD."
On his blog, Les Lester's Chronicle, he provides a litany of information on the African pharaohs that leaves little doubt to the veracity of his claims. "I thought, what would happen if an Old Kingdom pharaoh could be brought to modern times?" he reflects, adding that the idea kept percolating in his mind until the only route to a catharsis was to write about it. "Penning The Awakening of Khufu to paper was like pulling a story from the ether waves," he goes on to say.
In the book, a Tuskegee University geneticist utilizes DNA sequencing to bring Pharaoh Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid, to the 21st century. The book, while a fun read, pokes holes in the farcical notions of modern Egyptology.
Nowadays, Les Lester is busily writing a bonafide historical novel on the ancient world that is sure to be a 21st century classic.
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