Rick A. Mullins

Universal Magic Rick A. Mullins

The book Universal Magic, is a twin book. The universal half is named, UPLINE, DOWNLINE, while the magic half is named, MAI 'JX. Upline, downline is about parallel universes. It is a story of a simian race of beings called the Golden, who have a repressive government run by the Church of the Golden Way. The Church has displaced the historical ruling family and forbidden its citizens from learning anything concerning higher technology, while using the knowledge accumulated by the Imperial Family to enslave their own people. One of these technological marvels is the cross-universe gate. The gates are links to the linear universes that bind the cosmos, with one line of worlds going upline, and another in the direction known as downline. The last surviving member of the Imperial Family and her two children are rescued by dissident scientists, and along with the genetically similar natives of another world enslaved by the Church, flee downline. It is during the cross-universe escape that they encounter the world of humans on a farm in West Virginia. In exchange for cross-universe technology, Mike Miller and his family agree to help the golden and their former slaves and now allies the Gorr, defend their new Empire against the revenge of the Church.***The second book, Mai 'JX, is about energy beings who inhabit the Oort cloud around Earth's sun. The Mai 'JX have an affinity for carbon and can pack the energy of their bodies within the spheres of carbon-60 molecules for greater strength to their energy matrix. They can also tap into the miniscule amounts of energy created by a biologic entity as a sort of food source. This ability and affinity allows them to use what they call 'mobile carbon' as a suit of armor. The Mai 'JX of the double Centauri stars do not have this source of mobile carbon and have raided the Sol system for hundreds of millions of years for their own mobile carbon specimens. Every time the specimens they obtain through periodic raids begin to wear out, they ag