Rowney Marshal obviously does not lack confidence. Not content with writing three, contemporary parallel world, novels, challenging humanity’s right to exist, this new author has published them simultaneously through a selfnamed company.

 

Norwich, Norfolk, UK (PRWEB) 19 May, 2009 –

TRIAGE for humanity: the prescription from Rowney Marshal for our troubled world.

Treatment of Rampant Individualism Against Global Extinction in 3 doses: TerraRise’s pandemic is prophetic, PyscheSomatic asserts human mental attitudes as illness and I-Mage challenges everyone to take their medicine.

 

Rowney Marshal is a contemporary crusader masquerading under the cloak of the scifi genre, eating apocalyptic themes for breakfast, hitting the zeitgeist of ‘Day the Earth Stood Still’, spitting them out in simultaneous triple self-publication at http://www.rowneymarshal.co.uk.

 

The author’s love of nature is demonstrated in lyrical descriptions worthy of a G M Hopkins. The presentation reflects this, with watercolour cosmic-lilies on gloss covers, 12pt on Bookwove 80gsm paper, in 15.6 x 23.4cm quality softbacks. Rowney Marshal’s rigorous commitment to detail in the work continues through into the product for sale.

 

Offering attractive bookshelf-fillers may add a competitive edge, but respect for the readership goes well beyond the covers. The themes are big; the style demanding. No authorial voice appears; vividly drawn characters carry insights that retrospectively allow the reader understanding and drive their roles in the plots along.

 

Even, as in TerraRise, when the action takes place on Earth, this is true space-opera. Rowney Marshal has multiversal, not just global, vision, with shocking solutions and highly-individual opinions. There is no shrinking from problems nor from logical, antipathetic reactions.

This author seeks to challenge and provoke, not win friends, although the zealous tone indicates a wish to influence people to think, but using the scientific method, definitely not unsubstantiated beliefs. However, scientific explanations are handled succinctly enough for the uninitiated reader, with the flair of Greg Bear, while a wondering natural spirituality remains an enduring essence of these texts.

 

Rowney Marshal is elusive, not merely stylistically absent as narrative commentary in the novels, reminiscent of Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’; promoting the work not the writer.

The blog struggles between authorial voices, although the fictional characters reveal more, reinforcing the suspicion raised by the second novel, PsycheSomatic, of a familiarity with mental health problems, since both treat plural selfhood as normal.

 

What is clear, especially in TRIAGE III, I-Mage, is that the author is passionately against religion, a literary Dawkins. Coming across as an insider trader, dealing for an atheist-Devil, evangelical christians will wish they could issue fatwahs. The Grail-Game of this novel is played with as light touch a touch as in a Gaiman work, but the desire to trump the opposition is fierce.

 

The blurb strapline is: “Rowney Marshal is a provocative and iconoclastic voice, challenging us all to think for ourselves.”

 

This label is earned by advocating harsh measures, but poetic dexterity and evocative imagery, and the running theme of unification, not to mention the extraordinary range of cross-species’ liasons graphically but tenderly represented, smooth the shocks, normalizing extremes.

 

Tha author admits to a fascination with mythic themes and to utilizing many of the genre standards: hidden survivors of ancient primate cousins given a new twist through evolutionary histories, crystal skulls not alien but terrestrial technology, Martians about as far from little green men as they come, outer space achievable without breaching the laws of physics, grail quests embedded in natural philosophy, and the search for self an active, not navel-gazing, activity.

 

Characters reappear in each of the three parallel worlds, but the premise that nurture is a powerful determinant of a person’s destiny plays out as very different lives. The first two novels stand alone, while the third is a sequel to both and the resolutions are triumphant and stirring.

While all scifi holds a mirror to humanity, Rowney Marshal is both dismissive of the species and utterly sympathetic to it; a non-judgemental current commentator with attitude.

 

The author finds you need ‘attitude’ to self-publish, and that it results in a learning curve or two beyond expectation.

Rowney Marshal says: ‘If your book is not to be just a well-crafted diary of your weird headspace, publishing is logical. Finding readers, by word of mouth or word by mouse, depends on being heard amongst billions of original voices, whether I’m loud enough to create volume is my unspoken question.’

 

Rowney Marshal makes a triumphant debut as an accomplished saga-smith and imaginative force, rocketing into the scifi stratosphere.

If the author can make the transition to publicist, readers attained will not be disappointed with their purchases.