Reseña del libro "Myrna (en Inglés)"
In an age long before marble temples and emperors, Myrna, War Chief and Myrine of the Makri people, has cast her sword away into the Lake of Limits, retired with her memory of blood and ruined cities. Now her grand-daughter, who has grown up in a world changed by hunger and loss, sets off with new eyes witnesses the land coming to life again as she seeks her own path in life.Sometimes an old story is repeated so often, that it just grows and grows, until the towers are too tall, the cities too large, the monsters too powerful. Then it becomes blurred with our own lives today, and like overgrown weeds, a good myth needs a good whacking down with the scythe again, so that you can see what the actual people were doing, and why we were even talking about these people in the first place. If everything was so grand, why have humans in the tale at all? This is a detailed science fiction world build about a world very much like our own, called Erthe. It jumps between past, present, and future, exploring themes of loss, deception, starting over, and the meaning of keeping memories. Full of experiments, invented words, humor, it explores in a light, earthy way early ideas of philosophy, science and magic. Visit a world in which poetry is a profession that communities rely on, and the way you sing can decide how you live or die. This book teaches critical thinking, the philosophy of knowledge, and questions many things we take for granted, about how things work in human society.Explore a detailed, ground level world build through new eyes. Following a volcanic eruption when she was a child, a chain reaction leads to changed weather, devastated crops for decades and depopulated lands, Conflicts between old allies see a world transformed as whole cities are destroyed, and leading the fight against these ravenous invasions her destiny is chosen for her. Soaked up to her ears in blood, now she is retired, and her grand-daughter is leaving home to discover a world changed by hunger and loss, who will with new eyes witnesses the land coming to life again, as she seeks her own path in life and a way to contribute. There's also the Librarian, time-hopping witness to these events, an early 20th century mark for a shady tangible hologram Dragon, disguised as a human, who takes them back in time to search for clues that will help it leave the planet, and those who travel forward with it may not be any more free from slavery than the ancient people they lurk among.
