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    The Magical Earth
    The Magical Earth
    The Magical Earth
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    The Magical Earth

    By Donald H Sullivan

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    IInventor Jason Devlin and his nephew/assistant,Stu, are stranded in an alternate universe when his teleporter malfunctions. They are on an alternate
    world where it's a 14th century Earth and magic is real. A beautiful sorceress thinks Jason has been sent by fate to save her people from an evil sorcerer and his barbarian hordes.
    Her younger sister becomes involved with Stu, however romance between mages--the ruling class-- and non-mages--commoners--is forbidden in this world.
    Jason and Stu must rely on scientific knowledge and their wits to survive. However things are complicated when Stu mysteriously develops magic powers...but he lacks the skills to handle his powers.

    The two men get caught up in a war when seemingly endless hordes of barbarians led by evil sorcerers invade the civilized lands.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDonald H Sullivan
    Release dateApr 1, 2011
    ISBN9781458124081
    The Magical Earth
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    Donald H Sullivan

    I'm a native Floridian, retired from the US Army, I started writing in the army, mostly training and tech manuals. Boring stuff, but it whetted my interest in writing. I've written sci-fi, thrillers, mysteries, humor, fantasies, horror, and more. I'm now living in NC. While in the army, I served in air defense artillery, military intelligence, and psychological operations. I also worked in Federal Civil Service as a quality assurance specialist, ammunition surveillance. I love writing, reading, most kinds of music, and animals--especially dogs.

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      The Magical Earth - Donald H Sullivan

      The Magical Earth

      By Donald H Sullivan

      Copyright 2011 Donald H Sullivan

      Smashwords Edition

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      Table of Contents

      Title page

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      About the Author

      Chapter One

      Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

      ~Arthur C Clarke

      If Jason Devlin's tests were successful, he would not only be realizing the greatest invention of his life, it would be one of the greatest inventions of all time.

      Jason already had a number of inventions to his credit, and the royalties from those inventions earned him more than enough to quit his job at Astro Instruments and allow him to devote full time to his greatest love: tinkering and experimenting with just about anything that struck his fancy.

      In a few moments, he would know if this was to be the invention that would bring him fame and fortune. He would attempt to teleport a rabbit from booth A on one side of the lab to booth B on the other side. He opened the door to booth A and placed the rabbit inside. After many long hours of mental and physical toil, he was finally ready.

      He thought of the movie, The Fly, and checked the booths for the presence of any unwanted insects. He chuckled to himself. Why am I worried? Even if I do end up with a monster in booth B, I should be so lucky it works at all.

      He double-checked all his settings, and held his breath as he grasped the handle and pulled the switch out and up to the ON position. His pulse quickened as he watched the rabbit in booth A vanish. His gaze jumped to booth B, expecting to see the rabbit sitting there. Booth B was empty.

      What in the devil...this is crazy. The rabbit had to go somewhere.

      He rechecked the two booths carefully, and then he searched the lab. There was no sign of the rabbit anywhere. The rabbit did not cease to exist; it had to be existing somewhere. There was a space of twenty feet between the two booths. Could the rabbit be trapped in some nebulous limbo in that space?

      He pulled the switch down to the OFF position. He stared at booth B in amazement, for as the power switched off, the rabbit materialized in the booth--and sitting atop the rabbit's head was a bright blue grasshopper. Wherever the rabbit had been, it had picked up a hitchhiker. He was relieved to see that the two creatures hadn't meshed together or exchanged parts, but were two separate entities. He chuckled inwardly as he pictured a rabbit-grasshopper monster appearing in booth B.

      He'd never heard of a blue grasshopper, but bugs weren't his field. Probably a common insect, he mused, but where the devil did it come from?

      The next day Jason placed a potted plant, with the blue grasshopper perched on a leaf, into Booth A. He threw the switch. As with the rabbit, the plant vanished from Booth A when he activated the switch, but did not reappear in Booth B until he deactivated the switch. The plant was in booth B but the grasshopper was gone.

      He reasoned that when the switch was activated, objects were teleported to an unknown third location. A field was energized at the third location, and when the switch was deactivated the field collapsed, teleporting whatever chanced to be inside the field to the final destination…in this case booth B.

      When he teleported the rabbit, the grasshopper at the third location had jumped on the rabbit's head. It was caught there when the field collapsed, thus teleporting it to Booth B along with the rabbit. The next day the grasshopper was teleported along with the potted plant, and when it reached the third location it jumped from the plant before the field collapsed.

      He concluded that the teleportation of objects from Booth A to Booth B was working, but in the process, the objects were taking a detour through the third location--wherever that was.

      But he hadn't a clue as to where it might be. It could be nearby, or it could be halfway around the world. He could think of only one way to learn where the blue grasshopper came from--by going there himself. But how could he pull it off? He was reluctant to ask a friend to operate the switch; he preferred to keep his invention a secret until it was perfected.

      He was tired. He needed to rest his brain a while and try to figure out a solution to his problem. He went into the kitchen and made a pot of fresh coffee. He poured himself a mug of the steaming hot coffee and sat down at the kitchen table.

      Maybe I could rig up a timer to the switch…

      ***

      The timer switch worked,

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