The Map of the Universe review

This is a book that I wrote and over the last ten years has changed a bit. The setting of the book takes place over more than eight worlds and contains a lot of races never seen before and some that have been changed. Dochani is a race that is one of the key extra long lived races in the book. They are rumoured to live more than one hundred thousand years and a sparing few contain the map of the universe within themselves. Technically these individuals can go anywhere in the universe, although much of the data on this has been lost more than a million or even a billion years ago. Kind of like us trying to figure out what the dinosaurs were doing by the failures left behind. There is an ongoing war between the Dochani, the Fenshian and the Fenshian allies, the Nemish. The Fenshian are dragon like creatures, but not dragons and their name means devourers of worlds. They actually eventually consume the worlds that they visit. Billions of years ago the Dochani and the Fenshian were one race until they started to exhibit different traits than each other. The Fenshian experimented upon the Dochani and it changed them.

Dochani appear to be of our earth, but are not. They are egg laying creatures that are similar to the birds in that they pass on diet knowledge and other things that birds pass on. E.g. Birds remember what it is like to eat something that would be harmful to them and thus avoid it. The Dochani are biological creatures as in everything that they can do is within themselves, whereas the Nemish are cyborgs and technological creatures and have ships. Dochani travel using their minds to open a travelling gate so to speak, it is not a physical gate though but it does leave a trail. Cyborgs can produce offspring, at least in my writing they do.

There are at least eight worlds in this book to think about. The book has gone through many changes over the years to get where it is now and I am sure that there will be something in it for everyone. No matter that technically the book is in science fiction, it still has elements of Fantasy, War, Drama, Romance, High Tech, Middle Ages etc.

It is now on iTunes for a price that won't break your bank, which is less than the price of two coffees. :)
/ [ellyaas]

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