Water Wizard

The Berikatanyan Chronicles V2

by John Beresford

Water Wizard - John Beresford - Berikatayan Chronicles

Part of the The Berikatanyan Chronicles series:

It’s raining on Berikatanya. During the day. That hasn’t happened for three hundred years.

Stripped of its time displacement before the Battle of Lembaca Ana, the Valley is once again the subject of dispute. Confrontation between the great houses is disrupted by a daytime rainstorm – unheard of since the creation of the malamajan centuries ago. Suspicion falls on the Elementals, especially Lautan, who has not been seen since the battle. Meanwhile, millions of kilometres out in space, the last Prism ship is preparing to make planetfall.

Where is Lautan, and why can’t he stop the freakish rainstorms? Can Patrick rediscover his father’s lore and unlock the secrets of the Pattern Juggler in time to help? Or will civilisation be submerged under the influence of the malevolent new Water Wizard?

The Elementals continue their adventures in the second instalment of John Beresford’s SF/Fantasy crossover, The Berikatanyan Chronicles. Primordial forces spin out of control in this tale of magic, mystery, and mayhem that will appeal to lovers of Thomas Covenant, Merlin, and Allanon. Get your copy today!

Published: February 9, 2020
Publisher: Independently Published
Genres:

Fantasy, Fantasy - Contemporary, Fantasy - High & Other World, Fantasy - Sword & Sorcery, Sci Fi, Sci Fi - Colonization, Sci Fi - Distant Planet, Sci Fi - First Contact, Sci Fi - Science Fantasy

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author - british, format - book, format - kindle, format - kindle unlimited, format - novel >100K, format - paperback, format - self published, format - series, where - non-Earth planet, who - type - witch, who - type - wizard

Tropes: Band of Misfits, First Contact, Interstellar Travel, Portals
Word Count: 150722
Setting: Berikatanya
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Tropes: Band of Misfits, First Contact, Interstellar Travel, Portals
Word Count: 150722
Setting: Berikatanya
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters

About the Author

John Beresford has been writing seriously since 1968. Eventually some of his work began to appear in public. His first novel, War of Nutrition, was published for Kindle in February 2012 and was soon joined by two volumes of poetry.

Gatekeeper, the first of the Berikatanyan Chronicles series, arrived on June 1st 2015 and the sequels Water Wizard (February 2020), and Juggler (August 2021) completed that first trilogy. The Second Berikatanyan Chronicles, comprising A Dance In The Dark, A Shadow On The Water, and A Flame In The North, was completed in 2024. John is now working on his next project: a series of sci-fi thrillers based on the characters in War of Nutrition. Sign up to his mailing list at https://tinyurl.com/4mn8tcwv for the latest news and a copy of the prequel to the Chronicles: Berikatanyan Dawn.

John is also a songwriter. As "Beresford & Wallace" (with his musical partner Annie Wallace) he has recorded two albums - "Suburban Nostalgia" and "Weird and Wonderful" - which are available for download from Amazon.

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Summary: Another spaceship, another explosion. Harold Galahad would love to wake from this particular nightmare that is so eerily similar to the events that cost him his beloved wife and destroyed his soul. But the only way out is by saving the ship and its entire crew. If you ask Harold Galahad, he isn’t fit to lead a crew or command a ship. But nobody is asking Harry. Instead, he finds himself back on the bridge, on a ship stranded in space, no help in sight, only kept alive by remnants of a gradually failing life support system. His crew? A nurse running out of tentacles and eyes to care for all the wounded, a chief engineer who knows all about her systems but struggles with people, a chief of security who thinks everything can be solved with paragraphs from the Company’s handbook, a cursing chief of logistics, an anxiety-ridden communications officer, and a first officer who stays mysterious and feigns ignorance. This ship needs a captain to avert a complete disaster that includes the death of everyone on board. Can Galahad overcome his trauma? Can he find solutions where there are none? And worst of all, can he unravel all the mysteries surrounding the ship, its crew and the system they all work for? If you enjoy a complex tale that brings a human element to all species that travel space, combined with a multi-layered mystery, and starring a broken hero, Herald Petrel by Strange Seawolf will deliver. Warning: contains adult language and a considerable amount of swearing -- it is a cargo space ship in a desperate situation, after all.