David Major

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The Strange Voyage of Máel Dúin

DAVID MAJOR
Paperback

This is a new edition of one of the great stories of Irish mythology. It is extensively illustrated in full color by Midjourney, at the time of publication the leading AI illustration tool. The text is by David Major, author of The Day of the Nefilim and Air for Fire.

The Strange Voyage of Máel Dúin is a legendary tale from Gaelic literature that holds a significant place in the traditions of myth and history. It recounts the extraordinary maritime journey of the heroic Máel Dúin and his companions as they embark on a perilous quest.

This collaboration between human authorship and illustration by AI begins with Máel Dúin seeking revenge for the death of his father at the hands of raiders. He gathers a crew of seventeen warriors (plus three stepbrothers who decide to tag along) and sets sail in a currach. Their voyage takes them through various mystical islands and encounters with fantastic beings, testing their courage, wit, and resilience. […]

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Louis Pasteur, a vaccine, and fake numbers; a familiar tale

Some creative number-crunching that worked like a charm in the 1880s is being used again.

When his new rabies vaccine was killing too many people, Louis Pasteur moved the goalposts, by declaring that for 15 days after being injected, people were counted as ‘unvaccinated’; thus removing an important subset of cases from the statistics.

The same trick is being played out today, allowing the myth of the ‘epidemic of the unvaccinated’ to be spread by a compliant media.

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Air for Fire

DL MAJOR
Paperback, Kindle & epub

A collection of nine short stories and miscellaneous poems by David Major, author of The Day of the Nefilim. While the Nefilim was a meandering trip through some of the world’s great conspiracy theories, Air for Fire is a collection of short tales that happen in every timeline but this one. Shameless historical revisionism.

Air for Fire • The Princess Aslauga • The Tower • Berthezene • The One a Dog Runs To • All That The Thunderer Wrung From Thee • Rhakotis • Feeding the Beast • The Serpent & the Horse
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The Day of the Nefilim

DL MAJOR
Paperback, Kindle, epub.

Most of the world’s conspiracy theories are true, and here is the SF novel that shamelessly capitalizes on the fact…

“Scanning over the reviews of this book which you have already received, I see that all the good superlatives have already been ably employed; the richness of praise so opulent and resounding that even a great big word freak like myself is hard put to say anything that would glitter for an instant in the clamouring tide.

So, all I can say is that I love this book as much as I love all of my favourite science fiction books, and that’s a quantity that defies quantifiers. Everything in this book is perfect. The ending is perfect; the villains are perfect; the characters and images and settings are perfect.

I, too, could barely put it down. And I want to also say, thank you.” — P. Deering

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