The Oracle

Novella

As if Ra didn’t have enough trouble with his new competitor Jahwe, now a Persian scholar named Tao even feels obliged to utter serious doubts about the functioning of the scales used to weigh the souls of the deceased in the netherworld. An expert group of over 2,500 mathematicians is supposed to help the Gods of Egypt, among them Alan Turing, who starts to build a huge computing machine. But events soon come thick and fast and lead into a battle of almost biblical proportions…

With “The Oracle” Leon Lubing has created a thrilling fantasy story which combines mathematics with mythology and religious history with eroticism in an intelligent but none the less entertaining manner.

Translated from Chinese by Frank Meinshausen.  ♦  (eBook) – 60 pages – Language: German  ♦  £ 4,40

 

The Land of Forms

Novella

The Golden Stool, the sanctuary of the Ashanti, must be brought back to God in heaven to secure it from Dutch colonizers and a hostile neighboring tribe. But at the top of the self-built cloud-ladder Kambo, the young Ashanti woman, comes across a strange land of geometrical forms and its no less peculiar inhabitants. Together with her two friends Tima and Dunu she soon becomes the last hope of her village. But can the imminent doom really yet be stopped?

Set in Ghana’s colonial era “The land of forms” tells of a world in which imagination and magic, together with rationality and logic form an inseparable whole. In this way even the most surprising turn of events still appears plausible.

Translated from Chinese by Frank Meinshausen.  ♦  (eBook) – 55 pages – Language: German – £ 4.40