Purchase Mike's books:
E-Books:
"Pax Magellanica: Reichworld" available through Double Dragon E-Books .
"The Mirror Worlds: The Other Side Of Magik" available through Dragon-Tooth Fantasy
Paper-backs:"The Mirror Worlds: The Other Side Of Magik" available through Galaxy Books, Beattie And Forbes (NZ), Abbeys.
Reviews:
"In recent years there has been a parade of writers following in J.K. Rowling's
enormously successful footsteps. Most of them don't come close, and many of the
books they've produced are a waste of good trees. Happily, The Other Side
of Magik is not among the also rans."
...more
Nathan Brazil - Reviews "The Other Side Of Magik" for www.sfsite.com
Nathan Brazil - Reviews "The Other Side Of Magik" for www.sfsite.com
Current and upcoming releases
| Science-Fiction | ||
| Pax Magellanica: The Axel Van Diemen Trilogy | Available: 2007 on E_Book From: Double Dragon Publishing | |
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Book 1) Reichworld | A colony ship from the Nothern States of Europe leaves Earth
at the end of the twenty-first century.... and disappears. Trapped
in a worm-hole for two years, the ship emerges among the stars
of the Larger Magellanic Cloud. Mankind prospers there, fragmenting into trading empires, semi-regal Houses and free worlds. But there are signs of another species having passed through the same stars long ago, and, unknown to man, they are coming back from the inner region of the Cloud to reclaim them! |
| EarthFinder | Book 2) EarthFinder | Generations after the end of the war, Axel and his fellow survivors
stand upon the threshold of crossing the gulf. Everyone they grew
up with, loved ones, family and friends, are long dead. They are
saved from loneliness and bitterness by the personas created for
them by the Gaeia-world, personas designed to help them cope with
the reality of long life. Earth, meanwhile, has not fared well. The early dreams of expansion into the stars was halted when Earth met the H'rrem Sphere of Influence and fought two bloody wars to remain independent. They failed, and survive as poor relations in a confederation of four races, dominated by the war-like H'rrem. Technology has stagnated and the Earth and its few colony worlds are plundered of resources; yet resentment still burns strong in the human psyche... it only needs to be supported and directed! |
| Crusade | Book 3) Crusade | The reich has coalesced over the ages; a myriad of stars in
the Orion and Sagittarius arms of the Milky Way and the Larger
Magellanic Cloud are at peace and have been for millenia. Massive
trans-mat portals link the human and non-human worlds in a mosaic
of peace and prosperity. The memory of a protective military has
long since faded as automatics patrol the boundaries of man's
domain. Far into the inner stars of the Milky Way, across the great divide between the main spiral arms, a vast, ancient empire seeks room for the races it controls. It looks outward to the stars of man and covets them, and crosses the divide to take them. There is no resistance, only a few people to bring word to the central worlds |
| Fantasy | ||
| The Mirror Worlds | Available: Now on E-Book From: Dragon Tooth Fantasy | |
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Book 1) The Other Side Of Magik | There is an alternative reality to the universe we know and
understand. A very close and similar reality that is almost exactly
the same, almost normal and familiar... except for some minor
deviations. History there took a slightly different path... the DNA spiral is left-handed... dragons are real and not quite what they seem...Sniggering Trees can spot a lie a mile off... werewolves can get the pension... electricity doesn't work... and magik does. |
| The Skeins Of Magik | Book 2) The Skeins Of Magik | In the modern world, where energy and power substitute for magik, Theolonia Crabbe bases her new life in New York where she has found opportunities in the cosmetics industry.... The self-deceit and narcistic focus of cosmetics are perfect tools for her. With a little earth-magik enhancements in the ingredients, the products become almost compulsory. Profits blossom. Fame and power are her rewards.... The fugitive wizard attracts a motley crew of new-age wierdo's and criminal elements that are, literally, under her spell. Theolonia has come to terms with the fact that her dead brothers' mandrake legacy has, in part, survived within her own soul |
| The Third Magik | Book 3) The Third Magik. | On the original dragon world of the Third Earth, there was
no asteroid impact on Yucatan 65 million years ago; ergo, no gulf
stream. Ice caps dominate and the temperate band is limited to the area of Earth between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Dinosaurs continued for a long time and evolved into smaller, more intelligent, warm-blooded animals. Mankind came out of Africa, but his tree had fewer branches, and most did not survive. The heavy-boned types ...Neanderthal ... proliferated. They have larger brains than the smaller folk. Faster, smaller homo sapiens ... us ... faced too many setbacks to establish supremacy: there were no massive plains to spread into; competition is crowded into the smaller land masses |
| Magik In Absentia | Book 4) Magik In Absentia | To Be Released..... |
| Other Titles By Mike Lingaard | ||
| J. Goode: Honorary Witch | Jonathon Goode: Honorary Witch | Jonathon Goode, Jack to his friends, is fifteen years old and
is on holiday with his parents on a river boat. With his cousin,
Lizzie. And her parents. One night, at a country fair, he receives an odd message from a fortune teller... and strange things begin to happen. For one, Jonathon discovers that he is descended from a long and ancient line of witches and that the bloodline has crossed over to the male line. His!! He meets an elf who has a door to a place that's not exactly of this world, and he and Lizzie meet the keepers of the remaining ancient crystals of power. Crystals that once were the source of all power and magic in the world. And these keepers tell Jack that a lost crystal has been found |