In continuation, here is a snippet of the book discussion conducted by The Creative Circle Official for Sambit Daspatnaik’s debut mythological science fiction book ‘The Last War & Other Stories’. Listen to what author Preeti Nayak has to say about the book. A diverse mix of readers and authors came together to discuss their favourite tropes and trends in the genres of scifi and mythological fiction. Author Sambit Daspatnaik, who’s penned the bestselling book ‘The Last War & Other Stories’ gave some unique insights into the intriguing world of mythology and how scifi offers explanations to events. Interactions, Q&A and giveaways made this event an exciting one! The complete video was shared by the TCC group in their subscription channel. Don’t forget to like, share and subscribe to this channel! More parts to follow. You can grab the author’s book at https://mybook.to/TheLastWarAndStories.
The Last War – Book Discussion Snippets
Here is a snippet of the book discussion conducted by The Creative Circle Official for Sambit Daspatnaik’s debut mythological science fiction book ‘The Last War & Other Stories’, where the author spoke about the inspiration, ideas and the making of his debut book.
A diverse mix of readers and authors came together to discuss their favourite tropes and trends in the genres of scifi and mythological fiction.
Author Sambit Daspatnaik, who’s penned the bestselling book ‘The Last War & Other Stories’ gave some unique insights into the intriguing world of mythology and how scifi offers explanations to events. Interactions, Q&A and giveaways made this event an exciting one!
The complete video was shared by the TCC group in their subscription channel. Don’t forget to like, share and subscribe to this channel! More parts to follow.
You can grab the author’s book at https://mybook.to/TheLastWarAndStories
Promotion Partner ‘The Creative Circle Official’ Channel: Website: https://thecreativecircleofficial.com
Monolith, a flash fiction
Monolith, A flash fiction by Sambit Daspatnaik
The giant monoliths stood tall amidst the dry arid desert. In fact, they formed a pair. Unlike the previous ones that disappeared mysteriously within a few days, these stood permanently. Revathi and her team were studying the radiations being emitted from these massive metallic single piece structures from a small lab set-up at a close vicinity. They were clueless though, until Revathi laid her hands on an ancient manuscript, that provided instructions to activate these structures.
The ancient manuscript referred these giant alien monoliths as a portal to the other realm of the Sky Gods. Meanwhile, the scientific community had related this information to be an entrance to a wormhole.
The team finally made the breakthrough after several weeks of research. The two monoliths got charged and emanated a faint light between the two of them to form a portal. The only way to know what was on the other side was to walk through it all by oneself.
Revathi was now standing in front of this portal and took her steps hesitantly; and yet with determination, to make history. But deep within, she was concerned about the technique of teleportation that the manuscript had mentioned, where an object would disintegrate into packets of energy during the teleportation and again get integrated at the other end of the wormhole.
She took a deep breath; and marched right through the frame. As she entered it, she saw events moving faster through a passage. She could feel herself disintegrating until she had no memory of what happened next.
She was then thrown out at the other end on a flat solid ground. She was pleased to see herself intact. She then looked around to find high citadels at a distance, and ancient flying machines hovering on a visibly different sky. As she looked back, the light dimmed out indicating that the portal had stopped. Her heart sank. There was no way to go back to Earth and communicate this historic travel. But then, she looked forward to finding more about the speculated Sky Gods.
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The story was first published in Instagram as part of the flash fiction contest organized by The Creative Circe Official , where I had recited this story.
Copyright © Sambit Daspatnaik. All Rights Reserved.
Image source, Pixabay
Pushpak Vimana
The ten headed Rakshasa (demon) Ravana used his Pushpaka Vimana (The bird shaped flying machine) to traverse across the world. He stole it from his half brother Kubera, who was in turn gifted with this technological marvel by Vishwakarma, the architect of the Gods on the advise of Lord Shiva. Were our great ancestors spiritually and technologically far more advanced? You will find reference of this in my story ‘The Last War’, a mythological science fiction story.
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The ancient magic and technology….
What if the descendants of the Pandavas witnessed the same ancient technology and magic that their great ancestors had witnessed during the time of the great Mahabharata War?
Does war ever stop. Almost in every decade, era and epoch, we hear of a war in some part of the world. These wars are often fought for greed, for heroics, for power and for money. But the one fought to defend one’s land and to stand for righteousness in the society to maintain peace is probably considered the most virtuous act of all, referred to as Dharma Yudh in our ancient Indian scriptures. The Last War & Other Stories is such a story based on mythological science fiction.
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