Product Description
by Stanley Weaver Jr (Illustrator), Balogun Ojetade (Author)
Set in Freedonia - author Milton Davis' world, brought to life in the "Steamfunk " anthology and fully realized in the Steamfunk novel, "From Here to Timbuktu" - Harriet Tubman and her friend and rival, "Stagecoach" Mary Fields, chase agents of the vengeful Alchemist out of their world and into another, in which Frederick Douglass and a quite different Harriet Tubman govern a country of former enslaved Africans that rivals - and often bests - the United States, England and France in power and technology. Harriet must fight to stop a powerful alliance of British and American soldiers and the elite and fearsome Hwarang warriors of Joseon ("Korea") from invading Freedonia. But a wicked force from Harriet's world has come to destroy Freedonia and all it stands for. Will Harriet and her allies be able to stand against it?
Author Biography
Afrikan Martial Arts Master and Babalawo / Olorisa / Elegbe, Balogun is the author of the bestselling non-fiction books Afrikan Martial Arts: Discovering the Warrior Within The Afrikan Warriors Bible and The Young Afrikan Warriors' Guide to Defeating Bullies & Trolls. He is screenwriter / producer / director of the films, A Single Link, Rite of Passage: Initiation and Rite of Passage: The Dentist of Westminster. Balogun is one of the leading authorities on Steamfunk - a philosophy or style of writing that combines the African and / or African American culture and approach to life with that of the steampunk philosophy and / or steampunk fiction - and writes about it, the craft of writing, Sword & Soul and Steampunk in general, at http: //chroniclesofharriet.com/. He is author of ten novels - the Steamfunk bestseller, MOSES: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman (Books 1 & 2) and The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman: Freedonia; the Urban Science Fiction saga, Redeemer; the Sword & Soul epic, Once Upon A Time In Afrika; a Fight Fiction, New Pulp novella, Fist of Afrika; the gritty, Urban Superhero series, A Single Link and Wrath of the Siafu; the two-fisted Dieselfunk tale, The Scythe, the "Choose-Your-Own-Destiny"-style Young Adult novel, The Keys and the Urban Fantasy epic, Redeemer: The Cross Chronicles. Balogun is also contributing co-editor of two anthologies: Ki: Khanga: The Anthology and Steamfunk. Finally, Balogun is the Director and Fight Choreographer of the Steamfunk feature film, Rite of Passage, which he wrote based on the short story, Rite of Passage, by author Milton Davis and co-author of the award winning screenplay, Ngolo. You can reach him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Afrikan.Martial.Arts; on Twitter at https: //twitter.com/Baba_Balogun and on Tumblr at www.tumblr.com/blog/blackspeculativefiction.
