M.C. Planck | Author Reader Match: BLACK HARVEST

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

I was born in the USA and spent a good four decades there,
studying philosophy at the University of Arizona and co-founding a small scientific instrument
company. After that I spent a few years convincing missiles to fly but that was never really
satisfying, so when I met an Aussie girl in an on-line debate forum I packed up and moved to
Melbourne. We now have a brilliant daughter and two lazy cats, but sadly no kangaroos.

Readers who want to read about heroes, who care as much
about the side characters as the main, who want a world they could imagine living in, who
want to see happy endings even while they know that the real world does not sell its victories
cheaply.

Realistic, believable worlds with real human characters even
while they are zooming around in spaceships or raising the dead. Protagonists who always try
to do the right thing, who always make the most intelligent choice, even though they live in
worlds where good intentions and clever actions are not always good enough. Characters who
worry about how their actions affect others, who view privilege and power with suspicion, and
justice as the proper work of mankind. Worlds which are built on tragic truths and yet
nonetheless leave room for bright flowers and sunny days.

Black Harvest is the final volume in Christopher Sinclair’s
story. A mild-mannered mechanical engineer from contemporary American society finds
himself in a fantasy novel, complete with stone bowls and wooden spoons, swords and
crossbows, kindly priests and wicked wizards, and more monsters than you can shake a stick
at.

But Christopher is not a fantasy hero. He just wants to go
home to his wife. The people around Christopher, the servants and soldiers of heroes, are also
ordinary people trying to carve out a living in a world where the nobility rule because they are
more dangerous than tigers and harder to kill than elephants.

In this world, magic comes from consuming the brains of the
dead. And magic is the only way he can go home again. Christopher has to find a way to gain
immense power without losing his soul in the process. The tricks of modern engineering only
get him so far; trying to juggle his duties to his friends among the common people and his
desire to return to his wife forces him on a path that ultimately leads to a destination beyond
his imagination.