ABOUT
THE AUTHOR:
Mike
Philbin (born 1966 in St Helens, Merseyside) is an artist, editor and author
residing in Oxford in the United Kingdom. He spent the late 1980s and early
1990s exhibiting his brand of psycho-realist paintings in one-man shows
in St Helens, Liverpool and London.
Philbin's
'genreclectic' novel-writing career began in 1989 when Creation Books published
his psycho-erotic novel Red Hedz (under the pseudonym Michael Paul Peter).
Since then he has had five novels published in the independent press and
has worked with many other collaboration-friendly writers.
According
to a Philbin-penned spoof science article in issue 14 of Dementia 13 Magazine,
the Hertzan Chimera Unit is a fundamental particle (equivalent to a free
neutron) that predicts that gravity is the driving force in the universe
via something called Universal Equilibrium. Light travels backwards towards
the source as U.E. fills in, and matter is the true repulsive force. For
the last fifteen years since the Dementia 13 article, most of Philbin's
writing has been published as Hertzan Chimera.
Philbin
is the editor of the Chimeraworld anthology, an advocate of collaborative
fiction and the death of genre.
For
more information, please visit: http://www.mikephilbin.com
S I L V E R
T H O U G H T P R E S S
independent publisher of speculative fiction
PLANET
OF THE OWLS
by
Mike Philbin
[read
excerpt]
The
world is coming to an end, and the angels don’t give a damn.
Oxford,
England: Marcus (who works part-time at the falafel kiosk in town) awakens
to find a giant black and white bird at his window. He’s sure that’s
what he sees: a giant bird with feathers that throb with sinister portent.
He shakes himself awake and gets ready for work, unaware that his world no
longer exists.
Beijing,
China: Su-Ki Chin (a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl) stands at the bus stop
with her schoolmates, but their bus never arrives. Returning home, she finds
the family chickens have gone berserk, chasing her brothers around the yard
and leaving her parents for dead. It’s like she’s in a dream—the
chickens tower over her terrified brothers. She will soon become one of those
hybrid birds.
Planet
of the Owls, a new genreclectic novel by UK-based artist/writer Mike Philbin,
is a split-narrative story that tells of the time-and-space traveling powers
of the Gods who have finally arrived on planet Earth in the guise of birds:
robins, crows, magpies and owls. An age-old political conspiracy is revealed
among the angel clan, and mankind becomes its innocent victim.
The fate
of the Earth lies with Marcus and Su-Ki Chin—only their extra-species
love can save a planet about to be abandoned by the Gods.
Planet
of the Owls is a radical new interpretation of ‘spirituality’
as seen from a higher dimension.
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PLANET
OF THE OWLS
by
Mike Philbin
Publisher: Silverthought
Press
ISBN-10: 0-9815191-4-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-9815191-4-2
172 pages
paperback: $13.99
$14.99 + S/H
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