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The Prison Stone: An Epic Fantasy Steampunk Cthulu Space Opera (The Red Horn Saga Book 1) Kindle Edition

by J.R. Mabry (Author), Mickey Asteriou (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Only one thing keeps an ancient evil at bay. And now that thing is gone…

Through the power of the Prison Stone, the summoners succeeded in banishing the Dark Lord from the Universe. Lost for a thousand years, the Stone has once more been found…

The life of a gentle haffolk is thrown into chaos when he is chosen to carry the Stone from one dwarf world to another. But when the Stone is stolen, his every hope is dashed…

An angry prince, humiliated by his father the king, raises his hammer over the Stone, intent on releasing the ultimate power—a power that will prove his father wrong, a power that will raise him to the place of honor he deserves, a power that will mean the doom of every living thing…

The Prison Stone is the first book in the Red Horn Saga, an epic fantasy that skillfully blends high fantasy, steampunk, Cthulu, and space opera. The magic is unpredictable, the spaceships run on coal, and no power known to dwarf, elf, or man can stop the carnage. Only a hero small enough can save us now.

Prepare to be swept away into a universe filled with magic. Buy The Prison Stone today!

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0848HZQB4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Xenophile Press (May 1, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3268 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 310 pages
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    J.R. Mabry roams the earth like the ghost of Jacob Marley, searching for the perfect omelet pan. He writes thoughtful urban fantasy and science fiction. When not haunting high-end cooking stores, he lives with his wife and three dogs in Oakland, CA. He is allergic to coffee, tea, and alcohol, and for this reason the hills resound with his lamentation. He is also generally a cheery guy. Visit his website at www.johnrmabry.com

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    JOHN R. MABRY lives and writes in Hannacroix, NY, in a house he shares with his wife and dogs. He is a United Church of Christ pastor and is the Director of the Spiritual Direction Program at the Chaplaincy Institute (www.chaplaincyinstitute.org). He is the author of numerous novels and books on theology, spirituality, and spiritual guidance. Check out his websites at www.johnrmabry.com (non-fiction) and www.jrmabry.com (fiction).

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    Breaking a lengthy writer's block which lasted many years, Mickey published several short stories for Kindle before joining with J.R. Mabry on the writing of "The Red Horn Saga." All four volumes of this epic tale have been released and are exclusively available at Amazon. Inspired by the collaboration, Mickey began work on a solo novel, "Lake of Power", which expands the "Red Horn" universe and is now available in paperback and as a Kindle ebook.

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Laura Rolen
5.0 out of 5 stars Adventurous plot; intriguing characters
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2020
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This is a great book with many twists, turns, and surprises. The various types of fanciful characters are captivating, and the plot is adventurous and surprising at times. This book has enough fantasy to make it fun and intriguing but enough reality to make it relatable. I look forward to seeing what happens next as the characters continue their adventures.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good epic
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2020
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There are a lot of different characters in here. If you like Tolkien and Lovevraft, you'll like this story. Elves, dwarves and other creatures live on different planets. An ancient force is returning . I like the first half of the book better than some of the second book. I look forward to the next book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2022
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A decent read
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Dee Finch
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantasy at it's best
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2020
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The adventures, the characters, the journey. I very much enjoyed taking time out and sinking into this world.
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Gilbert M. Stack
5.0 out of 5 stars Unique New Fantasy Series
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2020
Mabry and Asteriou’s new series has one of the most unique settings I have ever encountered in fantasy literature. It’s a galaxy worth of worlds—each with their dwarves and elves and humans—but despite the essentially medieval level technology they are reached by dwarven built spaceships. I suspect that it is magic powering those ships, but they are spaceships nonetheless and that makes for a very distinctive mix of high tech and low tech interactions that gives this series a wonderful flavor.

The plot revolves around a totally evil big bad guy who destroyed entire worlds a millennium earlier before the good guys managed to trap him in the prison stone. That’s just long enough ago that even the long-lived dwarves think of these events as stories rather than history (many elves actually remember the big bad) so when the stone is rediscovered (and one does wonder how you lose something that important) it isn’t given the proper respect it deserves. In a decision that must go down as one of the worst ever made, a dwarf king decides to transport the stone by humble courier instead of by armed battalion. This being an epic fantasy series, no one will be surprised when that decision goes bad and the fate of worlds is once again endangered.

There are a lot of great characters in this story but none so endearing as Ellis, the haffolk. I admit I initially rolled my eyes when I saw the race. Hobbits or halflings are a staple of fantasy literature—gentle, inoffensive, and often loved by all. But here again, Mabry and Asteriou have taken their own route. The haffolk are still basically gentle, but they are not a race. They are instead mules—the infertile product of a dwarf and human mating who are despised by just about everyone—and it quickly becomes apparent that that is going to have major implications for the development of this story.

So the setting of the Prison Stone is exceptional, the foundations are strong, and now my expectations for the rest of the series is sky high. Can’t wait for the next book to be published.
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OneYoungGoat
3.0 out of 5 stars Strong story, loved the characters, but minor quibbles
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2020
Gorgeous cover!!!

This is a very braided, multi-character story with Tolkien-esk ties. The biggest strength is the characters themselves. They are one-and-all wonderful. Even the despicable bad guy had a strong root-ability factor. I shouldn’t have liked him, but I totally did.

My favorite character was Ellis the Haffolk (think Hobbit, but entirely different creature/backstory). He’s naïve and charming and a postal worker. His goal in life is to be the postmaster, but through a delivery assignment he gets dragged into an inter-world catastrophe.

The plot itself is centered around an ancient, evil God that has been separated from this small universe of humans, dwarves, elves, and haffolk. The universe if a mix of horse carriages, swords, and space flight (the space flight is about like traveling on the roughest roller-coaster in existence). There’s a plug (I envision this about like a cork on wine bottle between worlds) that keeps the evil God outside this universe. The plug had been hidden way, but now it’s been re-discovered.

Ellis gets the job of transporting the plug. The evil guy wants the plug to release the God. There’s also an elderly magician who’s a step behind evil guy and Ellis, an ancient human oracle who just sits there on a stone except for when he randomly spouts wisdom, elf and dwarf princesses both with fathers in need of shoves in the backs, and a hero (brother to evil guy) whose so righteously blind it’s hard not to like him too. Really. The characters are the best.

So why not a higher rating? Well, I waivered a bit on the rating. Love the characters. The writing is solid. The story is fun.

But there were times in the second half of the book that I lost interest. And the reason why is that some of the scenes were too obvious. An example of this would be the scene where the father of the bad guy has just been given information about his son. The father has a multiple page discussion with his Enforcer on what to do about the situation before making a decision. The problem is that I already knew every bit of information that the father goes on about. The decision he needs to make is so obvious that him debating it makes him seem dense. The entire scene would have been better summed up in a paragraph where the Father sent a knowing glance to the Enforcer and gave instructions on what to do.

There were a number of scenes like this in the second half. I just knew the story/characters so well by the midpoint that I didn’t need to be spoon fed quite so much. Having said, that it didn’t stop me from finishing, but I skimmed some scenes to get to the next place where the story picked up the pace.

Then my second issue was that there were a number of things that were relevant to the story which didn’t quite make sense to me. One example is Ellis’s postal service. He lives on a ‘moon’ (I think) and as a courier delivers mail and bills (utility bills are mentioned), but primarily to only other Haffolk (who all live on this moon too) except in rare cases where humans or elves or dwarves call for a special courier. The humans and elves and dwarves don’t appear to use the mail service other than special couriers. There is no internet. So how do they receive and pay their utility bills? And if this is a land of horses and swords, would utility companies really exist?
I know… this is all a bit silly of a complaint… But I kept wondering how the postal service worked exactly as its such an underlying part of Ellis’s story, and there were several things like this.

Another example would be the magic system. Other than vague feelings and the occasional spouting of the oracle, the Magician never seemed to quite know what was going on with the plug/evil-God. Then he produces a vision of what the evil-God was doing in that exact moment. Which left me with a ‘huh?’ If he could do such things, why not do that in the first place and save himself a bunch of time?

Still, even with my complaints (which really are minor in scope), this was a fun read and I would recommend the book. I enjoyed it, and the characters alone are worth it. And did I mention that the cover is gorgeous!!!
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