The Fire was first, and we are its Shadow...       From the Ashes by Amos Keppler    336 tightly spaced pages. Hardcover edition. ISBN 978-82-91693-39-2    Release date November 21, 2024.    Sales price US $40, Europe 35 Euros, UK 30 pounds (probably considerably less on some online stores). The novel is 130 000 words.    Lillian Donner and Martin Keller in Bergen in the summer of 1985    Author's word          Some places you can buy this one and others, and description of other Amos Keppler novels    If the store near you desn't have the book or claim that they can't order it for you, give them the author, title and ISBN number and insist that they order it. Several of the world's largest distributors offer the book. That means it will be available also in non-english speaking countries. If you, for instance live on continental Europe and your store has an English language book section (which most stores have today), it should most definitely be available there.          CONTACT mail    IMPORTANT: To at least prevent automatic generated Spam the e-mail address above is fake or/and incomplete. To send e-mail add 2 - the number 2 - before the @       Or use the yahoo-address below.    Secondary E-Mail: manofhood@yahoo.com       Amos on Twitter: @HoodedMan and @truindependence                THE BOOK    - We are Phoenix, he stated. - All human beings are, reborn time and time again throughout eternity from our own ashes.    That sounded so right to her, like dark lightning in a storm raining blood.    Lillian Donner grows up as a normal, somewhat well-adapted girl. She has trouble, major trouble with her parents, and the strict religious upbringing they give her, but she liberates herself from that, and move out of her childhood home the moment she comes of legal age. Her university studies bring both enlightenment and frustration, but they are liberating. They do bring her a long longed-for freedom.    Lillian suffers violent dreams, nightmares both scaring her and fascinating her. They bother her, but they also further awaken her natural curiosity, her yearnings for a deeper explanation of everything. The dreams do not really seem like dreams at all, but memories, and she begins her more thorough, personal investigation of life and what it means to be human. It dawns on her that she has always wondered about those issues. Her strict upbringing and an equally oppressive society did not destroy that, not that either.    She takes a casual look at the current human, or rather inhuman society, and concludes with a casual shrug that... that...    The world is wrong.    It displeases her in all ways that matter, and she sets out to correct that.            The establishment propaganda language is clear. Don't make waves. Do as you're told... or else.      Lillian Donner has never done what she was told and never will.    The first book in the series The Defenseless       The texts and clippings on this website are gathered from many sources and viewpoints. My hope is that it will be known as the definite authority on The Janus Clan and Phoenix Green Earth, their life and struggle.    Images, text, music, art and web design Copyright Amos Keppler First night on the web 2024-11-21       There will always be Storytellers by the campfire.       Return to The Janus Clan main page Return to Midnight Fire Media main page Return to Firewind main page       Amos Keppler's stories, poems, music and art published on the web. 99 percent of everything published on the Midnight Fire Arena is done by him.