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Ramona Louise Wheeler
You first met Ramona Louise Wheeler in the pages of Analog magazine, September 1998. Her stories, featuring Ray and Rokey, were good old-fashioned space opera, illustrated in Analog by the late, great Kelly Freas. The entire collection of Ray and Rokey's star-hopping adventures appeared in 2001: Have Starship, Will Travel and Starship For Hire, Wildside Press, com. Available everywhere.In 2013, Tor Books will publish Wheeler's novel, Three Princes. The story is set in an alternate history in which Egypt, rather than Rome, conquered Europe, and Cleopatra’s library never burned. The Egyptian civilization covers Africa, Europe and Asia, linked by Egyptian highways. Three Princes takes place in the Nineteenth Century of the modern Egyptian Empire, and plays out on an international stage, with romance and intrigue, opera, espionage, murder and madness. Two ancient and mighty nations, Egyptian and Incan, are brought to the edge of world war by imperial lunacy. Only the discipline and loyalty of pharaoh’s special investigators, Lord Scott Oken and Professor-Prince Mikel Mabruke, can keep civilization on course.
Analog editor, Stan Schmidt, read the novel in 2010, and wrote to me, “Three Princes is a fascinatingly conceived and wondrously realized alternate history.”
Professor Tom Easton, Analog book reviewer for thirty years, calls the novel “cinematic.”
Appearing in book stores soon.
Wheeler’s non-fiction works focus on comparative mythology, and on the literature and beliefs of the ancient Egyptians. Her web sites on ancient Egyptian mythology have been learning aids for students around the globe since 1994. Her essays were published first in 2000, Walk Like An Egyptian: A Modern Guide to The Religion and Philosophy of Ancient Egypt, and translated into Chinese for the Asian market in 2001. A third, expanded edition came out in 2004, with cover art by the author. The new edition contains material on the Egyptian calendar, including a unique translation of the only existing copies, provided by Diana Janeen Pierce. Wheeler’s most recent work on Egypt is an e-book, Walk Like An Egyptian: Ancient Faith, Modern Mind, published by Smashwords.
In 1983, Wheeler was one of the founding members of Hal’s Pals, the writers group led by the dean of hard sf, Hal Clement. When Hal Clement passed away in 2003, Professor Tom Easton, retired book reviewer for Analog and a true Renaissance Man, took over the helm. The group continues to thrive with Professor Easton’s guidance. Such authors as Sherry Briggs, Wen Spencer, Judith Klein-Dial and Walter Hunt have been members of Hal’s Pals. The group was dubbed “Hal’s Pals” by Harlan Ellison.
Wheeler is also a graphic artist, specializing in book and web page layout, design and illustration. Her latest graphic project is a set of ancient Egyptian playing cards, as well as a tarot deck, combining the history of the cards with the mysteries of the Nile.
On this web site:
~ In The Garden of Osiris: The Theology of Ancient Egypt. Wheeler's essential work on the mind and metaphors of the Egyptians.
~ Corner Mythology: Conceptual metaphors shared by Egypt and ancient Europe.
What remains changeless throughout seasonal changes, remains the same in every landscape, environment, climate or society? You. Mythology has always been about you in your environment, you in your world. You are the hero of every myth -- and every monster, as well.
February 2013.
Contact the author: ramona@ramonalouisewheeler.com
Walk Like an Egyptian: Ancient Faith, Modern Mind ~ the Smashwords ePublish edition
Planning to travel to Egypt, or just to travel through the the mysteries of the ancient wisdom of the Nile? Take this digital guide along with you, on your cell phone, mobile, iPad, Nook or laptop. Explore Egypt from the inside out.
Osiris belongs to us more than to ancient Egypt, at least by that name. This is true for Isis, Horus, Thoth. Pronunciation is only the resonance of an era. Egypt’s metaphors for the Throne of the Eye, bonds of love, unique identity and intellect work today. Flesh out those names with the majesty of the Egyptian vision, and you revitalize the language between you and yourself.
~50,000 words ~ Price: $1.99
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