40 pages of cryptic sentences were rendered after Saturnian Latin style. The manuscript was thought early albeit unimportant fantasy writing and was left re-shelved in an obscure basement library until 2002, when I stumbled upon it.

Having acquired the only extant copy, I worked to craft a translation and at last was able to locate the ancient position of the Furth continent, which is all but wasteland now. I traveled there in hopes to verify the weird history. I found the remaining works of this civilization left in an abandoned tower in the Hoth Marimar hills on the western island of Nova Siluria.

Tragically, all the original manuscripts in Latin were burned by locals, a riotous mob angry that I was digging up "that which must not be remembered."  In order to avoid legal issues with the local government I hereby claim authorship of these stories myself.

Warning: these writings, by means of a shameless plundering of the classical western imagination, exploit fantastical themes of apocalypse and wizardry, weird creatures and underworlds.

Welcome and greetings from the real-life "Harry Potter"...my birth name. Of course it was impossible for my parents to predict the signifigance. Names have secret meanings and convey something not always explicable.

Please consider: To obtain this book merely on account of the famous name is undesirable. I assert humbly that my writing is fine quality and can stand on its own.) I have never read the harry potter series, so there are no intentional thematic similarities with the famous book series. 

The Fall of Nystol is the Third Book of The Master of Planets Trilogy.

These stories have Apocalyptic perspective, fantastic but anchored in realism, in metaphysic, and in faith.

These stories are no more phantasmogoric than Dante's Inferno.The work portrays an array of mythopoesis, legend-crafting, the retelling of transformative experiences that have lurked in the swamp of the collective human memory.

I have been writing wizard-fantasy since 1986, age 20, when I began to design the intermundane lands of Furthreach.

Soon it will be ready, so please mark the book at Lulu.com, this work is about wizardry, but not fan-fiction, not a "Harry Potter fix."

TRUE TRAVELERS If you love eld lore and wizard stories, you will be quite whigged-out by this!" -Harry

Recent PRogress NOTIFICATIONs

FeBruary2008 on Gnome's Horde from Harry: I have just got a quite serious inspiration for a Wizard Tale that MUST be included for the Gnome's Horde. I have added now 50 pages in the last month.

April2008: Its been a couple of months now, and the fifty extra pages have increased substantially. However I am suffering writer's block. Please pray for me to finish the Gnome's Horde. Thank you.

August 2008 I have made some considerable advances in plot structure, reworking et cetera, still going strong. I must let it sit a while

October 2008. Considerable progress, notable editing and plot understanding into view. Just a few more scenes and I can pull the monstrous thing together. Its over 700 pages now. Heavy editing must ensue. God determines when I create. I will need to create a trilogy format. I hope civilization will not end before I finish!

September 2009. Progress has been slower, however this month I have been concentrating on creating greater clarity in language, and re-arranging the opening so that it starts with action, the capture of Orbius. Some great innovative edits in the past year, and I have decided to cut out many extraneous story lines. I am thinking that it might be best to not have a trilogy.

 Please TRACK THIS AUTHOR so that you will know when its ready. (I am predicting end of March)

former Publications: The Martyrdom, an epic poem illustrated in LUNG (a poetry rag of the Hyde Park poets in Chicago). The poem can viewed by following the link to my site below.