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Phantacea Publications in Print- The 'Launch 1980' story cycle - 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Fantasy Trilogy - The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels - The phantacea Graphic Novels - |
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The 'Launch 1980' Story Cycle |
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The War of the ApocalypticsPublished in 2009; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
Nuclear DragonsPublished in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
Helios on the MoonPublished in 2014; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
The 'Launch 1980' story cycle comprises three complete, multi-character mosaic novels, |
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Top of Page Search Engine - pHantaPubs in Print - Page Highlights - Upwards - Downwards - Fresh Graphics - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
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'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Epic Fantasy |
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Feeling TheocidalPublished in 2008; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
The 1000 Days of DisbeliefPublished as three mini-novels, 2010/11; main webpage is here; ordering lynx for individual mini-novels are here |
Goddess GambitPublished in 2012; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
Circa the Year of Dome 2000, Anvil the Artificer, a then otherwise unnamed, highborn Lazaremist later called Tvasitar Smithmonger, dedicated the first three devic talismans, or power foci, that he forged out of molten Brainrock to the Trigregos Sisters. The long lost, possibly even dead, simultaneous mothers of devakind hated their offspring for abandoning them on the far-off planetary Utopia of New Weir. Not surprisingly, their fearsome talismans could be used to kill Master Devas (devils). For most of twenty-five hundred years, they belonged to the recurring deviant, Chrysaor Attis, time after time proven a devaslayer. On Thrygragon, Mithramas Day 4376 YD, he turned them over to his Great God of a half-father, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, to use against his two brothers, Unmoving Byron and Little Star Lazareme, in hopes of usurping their adherents and claiming them as his own. Hundreds of years later, these selfsame thrice-cursed Godly Glories helped turn the devil-worshippers of Sedon's Head against their seemingly immortal, if not necessarily undying gods. Now, five hundred years after the 1000 Days of Disbelief, they've been relocated. The highest born, surviving devic goddesses want them for themselves; want to thereby become incarnations of the Trigregos Sisters on the Hidden Continent. An Outer Earthling, one who has literally fallen out of the sky after the launching of the Cosmic Express, gets to them first ... |
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The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels |
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The Death's Head Hellion- Sedonplay - Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here; |
Contagion Collectors- Sedon Plague - Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here; |
Janna Fangfingers- Sedon Purge - Published in 2011; two storylines recounted side-by-side, the titular one narrated by the Legendarian in 5980, the other indirectly leading into the 'Launch 1980' story cycle; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here; |
In the Year of the Dome 4825, Morgan Abyss, the Melusine Master of the Utopian Weirdom of Cabalarkon, seizes control of Primeval Lilith, the ageless, seemingly unkillable Demon Queen of the Night. The eldritch earthborn is the real half-mother of the invariably mortal Sed-sons but, once she has hold of her, aka Lethal Lily, Master Morgan proceeds to trap the Moloch Sedon Himself. In the midst of the bitter, century-long expansion of the Lathakran Empire, the Hidden Headworld's three tribes of devil-gods are forced to unite in an effort to release their All-Father. Unfortunately for them, they're initially unaware Master Morg, the Death's Head Hellion herself, has also got hold of the Trigregos Talismans, devic power foci that can actually kill devils, and Sedon's thought-father Cabalarkon, the Undying Utopian she'll happily slay if they dare attack her Weirdom. Utopians from Weir have never given up seeking to wipe devils off not just the face of the Inner Earth, but off the planet itself. Their techno and biomages, under the direction of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon's extremely long-lived High Illuminary, Quoits Tethys, have determined there is only one sure way to do that -- namely, to infect the devils' Inner Earth worshippers with fatal plagues brought in from the Outer Earth. Come All-Death Day there are more Dead Things Walking than Living Beings Talking. Believe it or not, that's the good news. |
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phantacea Graphic Novels |
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Forever and Forty Days- The Genesis of Phantacea - Published in 1990; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
The Damnation Brigade- Phantacea Revisited 1 - Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
Cataclysm Catalyst- Phantacea Revisited 2 - Published in 2014, main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
Kadmon Heliopolis had one life. It ended in October 1968. The Male Entity has had many lives. In his fifth, he and his female counterpart, often known as Miracle Memory, engendered more so than created the Moloch Sedon. They believe him to be the Devil Incarnate. They've been attempting to kill him ever since. Too bad it's invariably he, Heliosophos (Helios called Sophos the Wise), who gets killed instead. On the then still Whole Earth circa the Year 4000 BCE, one of their descendants, Xuthros Hor, the tenth patriarch of Golden Age Humanity, puts into action a thought-foolproof, albeit mass murderous, plan to succeed where the Dual Entities have always failed. He unleashes the Genesea. The Devil takes a bath. Fifty-nine hundred and eighty years later, New Century Enterprises launches the Cosmic Express from Centauri Island. It never reaches Outer Space; not all of it anyhow. As a stunning consequence of its apparent destruction, ten extraordinary supranormals are reunited, bodies, souls and minds, after a quarter century in what they've come to consider Limbo. They name themselves the Damnation Brigade. And so it appears they are -- if perhaps not so much damned as doomed. At least one person survives the launching of the Cosmic Express. He literally falls out of the sky -- on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head. An old lady saves him. Except this old lady lives in a golden pagoda, rides vultures and has a third eye. She also doesn't stay old long. He becomes her willing soldier, acquires the three Sacred Objects and goes on a rampage, against his own people, those that live. Meanwhile, Centauri Island, the launch site of the Cosmic Express, comes under attack from Hell's Horsemen. Only it's not horses they ride. It's Atomic Firedrakes! |
pH-Webworld Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos- Exclusively available from Phantacea Publications -Updated versions of two of Jim McPherson's early business cards for phantacea; the Hidden Headworld is as per the image map here whereas the heady pareidolia of a late 1920s, Giza Plateau parking lot near the Egyptian Sphinx is as per here |
The PHANTACEA MythosThrygragos Varuna Mithras as Sol Invictus(Plus shots of a few characters who might object to that presumption) |
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Winter 2006/71. Featured Story: "Rafting
Towards Medusa" |
Image Map: Click on individual graphics in the collage for the Cyberian equivalent of teleportation |
PHANTACEA on the Web- written by Jim McPherson © copyright 2007 Jim McPherson |
NOTE: With the exception of the bottom of page ordering lynx, what follows was last updated in Autumn 2007 |
Introductory RemarksGreetings. Welcome or welcome back. Somewhat disturbingly, the Winter 2006/7 update of 'pHpubs' marks the entry of PHANTACEA on the Web into its second decade. (If you're in the slightest curious as to the contents of some of its earliest updates, then do be a goose and have a gander at this click.) To order any of the PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publications that are still available, click here. (There's still no way to pay online but I'm working on it.) Next door is the usual Hestia Housekeeping subsection of 'pHpubs'. Immediately below is an alphabetical list of lynx to a number of typically idiosyncratic mini-essays and/or Character Likeness studies I've prepared over the years for on the Web. They illustrate some of the peculiar perspectives I've developed while writing the PHANTACEA Mythos. Contact me [jmcp@phantacea.com] and feel free to ask any questions you might have regarding PHANTACEA. I'll do my best to answer them either directly or right here in 'pHpubs'. PHANTACEA Essentials
"Manitoulin's a manatee," said Sorciere. "Actually I'm right here." The blind Cheyenne Shaman was standing on the beach grinning happily. "And Horny Head's her own self. Her name too. Also isn't all manatee. Or all narwhal for that matter." "Has some faerie blood in her," Sorciere confirmed. "Can shift shapes. Quite the beauty, isn't she?" Bump on the head must have been worse than Barsine thought. Had addled her senses. She thought to swoon. Didn't bother. Not because it would give Vetala an easy out either. Didn't want to waste the time. It was much more interesting being conscious right now. Wouldn't want to miss that. Barsine had never seen a unicorn before. Let alone one walking out of the sea. -- from 'Rafting Towards Medusa', the fifth chapter of 'The Vampire Variations' |
Hestia Housekeeping- What's New Intro - Porcine Bats - Feel Theo Progress - Elsewhere Conclusion - Hestia Housekeeping amounts to the 'What's New' section of pHpubs. Consequently I always start it with a 'What's Old' link to where I put its previous update. Now that that's done, we can get on with this edition of Hestia Housekeeping. So what is new in the Winter 2006/7 edition of PHANTACEA on the Web? Primarily, though hardly exclusively, the answer is, surprise, surprise, a whole bucketful of housekeeping items. I say that because, for the first time since 2002, I've revised my home page (the Online PHANTACEA Primer). Which necessitates a link to where the old primer page can be found. As one might expect from something subtitled the home and prime picture gallery page, the new one is so image-intensive it comes with its own warning. It also come with somewhere in the vicinity of 60 lynx. In my view a PHANTACEA web gallery is thoroughly overdue. Truth told, which I always strive to do, I long ago lost count of the number of images I've put up in the now 10- plus years of on the Web. Without actually counting them up, I'd venture there are at least 200 of them by now. Google.Ca has shots of about 40. Since many were taken from my aforementioned, '02-'06 primer page, I figured one of their robots had detected it. As a result of said figurations, I decided to provide a different 40 at the same URL link-site. I did so mostly for the experimental sake of seeing if Google would add the new ones and/or replace the previous ones. If I remember to do so, I'll let you know come summer the endgame of that experiment. Top of Page - Top of Hestia - On to Topic Next door is the latest list of lynx to the illustrated mini-essays and/or Character Likeness studies I've done or redone of late. One image you won't find in any of them is the Porcine Bat to the right of this paragraph. I shot it at the Dublin airport back in 2005. It fits nicely with cracks made by Sorciere (born Solace Sunrise), Bat-Bait (born Barsine Mandam) and everyone's favourite, ever-fishifying Fisherwoman (born Scylla Nereid) over in 'The Vampire Variations'. Which reminds me of something I noted in the Summer of 2006 edition of pHpubs. Sooth said, which means much the same as truth told, I still haven't reread either Vamvar or 'The Volsung Variations', the two Web Wheaties, as in serials, I'm currently presenting out here in Cyberia. However, the PHANTACEA fact of the matter is that, while I haven't finished their teasers as yet either, I have begun their synoptic summary sections. Quite the pair of interrelated sagas they are too, even if I do say so myself. For example, the first four chapters of Volvar constitute some of the most entertaining fight sequences I've written since, well, the PHANTACEA comic books. Either that or the end of "The War of the Apocalyptics"; which, let's face it, was almost wall-to-wall with fight sequences. Needles to say, best get to reading them while they're still online and available for your fee-free perusal. You definitely don't want to miss the debuts of Faerie Flight, Bumble Bums, Mara Macha and old Nuke, though I'm sure there are Socks of Supras who wished they'd foregone the pleasure. Top of Page - Top of Hestia - On to Topic As for "Feeling Theocidal", I had the original draft evaluated. I then took the summer off writing while I contemplated what came back. Next I buggered off to Brazil for 5 weeks in mid-autumn. Put it this way, it's a whole lot longer than it was once. It's also currently making the rounds of literary agents. In the meantime, the image map up top and its counterpart collage down below in the topic section depict Feel Theo's main character(s). That'd be the VAM Entity, who's been around as long as the PHANTACEA Mythos has been around, which is nearly three decades and running now in terms of print-publishing. (Yes, pH-1 came out in the Fall of 1977.) Much of the text accompanying it, and the other image-laden mini-essay in the topic section down below ('The Demons of Salvador'), comes from the novel. Together, they're as close as we'll come in this edition of pHpubs to copping a feel for the real Feel Theo deal. Top of Page - Top of Hestia - On to Topic There are some thought-quotes in Serendipity, though. Plus, there's an external link to a museum you might want to check out online prior to your next trip to Salvador, Brazil. As for what else is new this time around, there's now a list of lynx to the gold-mining boxes found scattered throughout PHANTACEA on the Web. I've also added some material on Tanith Silverhair, who finally starts coming into her own in Volvar. The aforementioned Demons of Salvador constitutes the start of a Brazilian TIMP that I'm working on for next time and I'm sure I've bundled bushels of brilliance more into this edition of pHpubs. That is to say I think I have. I have mentioned my ongoing difficulties with memory (not Human Memory, nor any of PHANTACEA's myriad other Memories) haven't I? Seems I've already forgotten! The synoptic summaries of Volvar and Vamvar would be where I started looking for all this bundled brilliance. The day-glo lynx speckling them are bound to take you somewhere you've never been before on the Web. Feedback encouraged. Oh and, lest we forget, as always, good reading. Top of Page
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Stories and Synopses'The Volsung Variations''The Vampire Variations'Top of Page - Top of Hestia - On to Mosaic Novels - On to Topic |
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Lynx to complete mosaic novels within the PHANTACEA Mythos whose potential covers, background information and introductory chapters are still online
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A Collection of Mini-Essays and Character Likeness Studies specific to "Feeling Theocidal" | |||||||
"Feeling Theocidal" began life in the mid-80s as a 2-part backup strip for the PHANTACEA Phase One Project. As noted on the 25 Years Plus webpage, I abandoned Phase One after only one issue due to a suddenly once again precipitous market. (I collected the backup strips that Ian Fry did complete in the 1990 graphic novel entitled "Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA", which can still be ordered.) I wrote a prose version of the basic story for Feel Theo in the early 1990s. Again a 2-parter, I thereupon serialized it as the first and the last chapters of "The Trigregos Gambit". (Entitled Thrygragon, their synopses remain online.) Indeed, 'Thrygragon - 4376 Year of the Dome' is Feel Theo's subtitle. All of which brings me to this time around's character likeness study featuring 'The VAM Entity'. Thrygragos Varuna Mithras is hardly alone when it comes to believing he's one of the three Great Gods. In PHANTACEA fact only one individual believes otherwise. That would be the arguable trinity's 'A'-guy: our old pal Bad Rhad, aka the Smiling Fiend or, most familiarly, Smiler. Here's what he has to say to the, arguably, 'M'-guy maybe a quarter of the way through Feel Theo. (NOTE: Whenever he appears in the PHANTACEA Mythos, Smiler always talks in bold-italics.)
Here's an abbreviated version of the rest of their conversation.
And, other than there's a much earlier, albeit now slightly modified, entry on the 'The VAM Entity' elsewhere, that's about all I care to mention re their, to say the least, strained relationship. As for the image above, at some point during Feel Theo Mithras transforms himself into "a resplendent celestial, the 3-eyed, 30-foot tall, living embodiment of Sol Invictus." He's wearing the Mask of Byron and Lazareme's Cloak of Many Colours. He's holding onto his labarum, the Cross or Crutch of Mithras. All three are somewhat different than I depicted them in the feature I did on the Thrygragos Talismans in the Summer 2006 edition of 'pHpubs' . That's to be expected. Devic power foci are nothing unless they're transmutable. (NOTE {mostly to myself}: Never spell the plural of power focus as 'focuses' because it's a noun, not a verb. You focus with a camera or with your eyes. In that regard, as tempting as it may be, never spell the plural of talisman as 'talismen' because my Funk & Wagnalls doesn't consider that a word.) With reference to the image's caption: Stynx is here whereas the Sedon Sighting is here and the first version of the Cross or Crutch of Mithras is here. A larger shot of the 'V'-guy is here, the latest Mask of Byron is here, the original Star Cape is here and the sun-circled demon is here. Ahriman (Smiler) is represented by the spooky, winged, Icarus-like figure rising skyward behind Mithras as Sol Invictus. A larger shot of Rio de Janeiro's instigatory Icarus can be found here. An unadulterated shot of Rio's famous Giant Jesus ('Cristo Redentor') can be found here. | |||||||
The Demons of Salvador(Setting - Tralalorn's Stynx - Multi-Horns - 2-Faced Demogorgon)Please consider this a foretaste, something to hold you over until I do a full meal deal 'Travels in my Pants' ('TIMP') on my Autumn 2006 trip to Brazil. Salvador da Bahia, as I believe it's more correctly called, is probably most famous for the deadly 'dance' of Capoeira and as a centre for the practise of what's reputed to be a sort of voodoo known as the rituals of Candomble, both of which can be googled for more information. There's an upper and a lower city that you can pass between by using the Lacerda elevator. The Market Modelo or main market's in the the lower city. Just outside it I encountered the section-titular Demons of Salvador. No, they don't wander about freely. They're on a series of tables and walls. In other words, they're handicrafts designed, ostensibly anyhow, to ward off the scary things they resemble. At least so I was informed. [Sectional Note 1: In the PHANTACEA Mythos, third generational devils solidify themselves by occupying the subtle matter bodies of de-brained demons. [Sectional Note 2: I also strive, not always successfully, to differentiate between agathodaemon and cacodemon. The former (daemon) are more indifferent than benevolent whereas the latter (demon) are man-eaters.] What follows, along with some highly edited selections taken from "Feeling Theocidal", is a sampling of the wares presented in or on handicraft booths outside of Salvador's Market Modelo. Put better, it's a sampling of the 'bewares' presented there! Top of Page - Top of Topic - On to Trala's Stynx
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7. Sites with Loads of Graphics:Google.ca supplies what amounts to a pH-Webworld web gallery. Just go to http://www.google.ca/, hit the images link and type in PHANTACEA. Pasting into the address area of your browser the following Url might work as well: http://images.google.ca/images?q=phantacea&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&start=100&sa=N&filter=0 PHANTACEA on the Web is chock-a-block with visuals. Good places to ogle artwork from the comic books and graphic novel are One to Six, 'Twenty-Five Years Plus' and what began as 'The Genesis of PHANTACEA' webpage. Most of the other graphics are scans I did of my own photographs or material I put together using PHOTOSHOP. All the essays are loaded with images. Try out the framed version of the Main Menu. You won't go anywhere else but, then again, you won't get lost either.
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8. Latest List of Lynx to some previous Web-Publisher's Commentaries| Winter 2006/7 | Summer 2006 | Winter 2005/6 | Summer 2005 | Winter 2004/5 | Summer 2004| Spring 2004 | Autumn 2003 | Summer 2003 | Autumn 2002 | Summer 2002 | Autumn 2001 | Spring-Summer 2001 | Winter 2000/1 | February 1999 | November 1998 | August 1998 | Samplings from other Not So Recent Commentaries | June-March '97 | February '97-July '96 | |
Webpage Last Updated: Spring 2015There may be no cure for aphantasia (defined as 'having a blind or absent mind's eye') but there certainly is for aphantacea ('a'='without', like the 'an' in 'anheroic') Ordering Information for PHANTACEA Mythos comic books, graphic novels, standalone novels, mini-novels and e-booksDownloadable order form for additional PHANTACEA Mythos Print PublicationsCurrent Web-Publisher's CommentaryJim McPherson's Worldwide Email Address -- jmcp@phantacea.comPHANTACEA: The Web SerialspHantaJim's WeblogWebsite last updated: Autumn 2015 Written by: Jim McPherson -- jmcp@phantacea.com© copyright Jim McPherson (www.phantacea.com) Websites featuring, at least in part, Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos
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