His book\u00a0is a sprawling fantasy epic mixed with science fiction elements, and a fantastic cast of characters. It echoes shades of\u00a0Dune and Lord of the Rings, but at the same time is its own story\u00a0with a unique voice, setting, and plot. The author doesn’t try to\u00a0hide his use of common tropes, and instead, puts a unique twist on each of them.<\/p>\n
After finding the body of a dragon in a metallic desert, Red finds out that he is the reincarnation of a messiah worshiped by an insectoid alien race bent on invading his star system. Swept into a dangerous adventure across glacial swamps, cloud cities, and dead stars \u2014 Red must evade his true purpose in the world, to summon a forsaken deity trapped in another realm.<\/p>\n Phantasia keeps\u00a0readers engaged throughout, with plot twists and new elements that never stop surprising you.<\/p>\n You can find Riyadad’s excellent new tale here <\/a>on Amazon. \u00a0You can also reach out to him on his Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love the juxtaposition of different genres. \u00a0When you find out that the world that you’re in, which feels like it is some kind of biblical era, is actually the future. \u00a0Or when you throw a little bit of urban in your fantasy. \u00a0My personal favorite is medieval superheroes, but I’m a little biased there. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[463,462],"tags":[464,723,669,817,816,613],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Phantasia1-e1427109638484.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-xX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Phantasia\"](\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Phantasia.png\")
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