A YA FANTASY FOR READERS OF ALL AGES!
It’s one thousand after the Venables-Hirsch Experiment, which became the greatest ever news and media sensation. Scientists crossed the boundary between life and death, revived the dead brain of a human subject and discovered the reality of an afterlife with angels. Greedy for knowledge, they created the early psychonauts, who explored and investigated the Heavenly realm (2028-33). The result was a war between Heaven and Earth which has lasted for a thousand years.
Our planet is now a ruined wasteland. The Weather Wars have buried half of North America under ice, the landmass of South America has been fissured and broken into blocks, and the fires ignited by the Great Collapse continue to burn across all of Europe and Asia.
In Heaven, the Supreme Trinity has turned away from the devastation and withdrawn to the Seventh Altitude. A War Council of the highest archangels now directs strategy and defence. On Earth, artificially created beings called Humen have taken over the running of the war. Their ultimate goal is to invade and conquer Heaven.
Ferren is one of the surviving descendants of the original human beings. Known as Residuals, the original human beings have been reduced to a state of fear and ignorance, surviving in small, scattered tribes. Ferren’s tribe, the People, inhabit a cluster of ruins on the grassy plain of what was once the city of Sydney in the continent once named Australia.
Ferren is a little less fearful than the rest of his tribe. But all he knows of the larger world are the terrifying lights and sounds of armies fighting in the sky, and the Humen Selectors who come every year to claim someone for military service.
Then an angel shot down in the fighting crashes to the Earth close by. When Ferren sneaks out to investigate, it’s the first ever communication between a human being and a celestial. The relationship that forms between them will change the course of history.
The angels will have to learn not to ldespise the physical world and physical bodies, the Residuals will have learn to stand up for themselves against the Humen, and the Humen … well, nothing can deflect them from their plan to invade Heaven. But Ferren and his friends and followers may be the key to stopping them!
The books of The Ferren Trilogy draw on the old Judeo-Christian-Islamic lore of angelology. It’s preserved especially in the Apocrypha, the Kabala and similar not-quite-orthodox texts. An incredibly vast, rich treasury of facts about angels, fallen angels, Heaven and Hell! We all know bits of it, but most has been forgotten.
The Ferren Trilogy draws on the lore of angelology as many great fantasy novels have drawn on Celtic, Norse, Anglo-Saxon and other mythologies. But Harland’s books of imagination, not religious books, and carry no hidden religious message.
Check out the video trailers for the first two books, Ferren and the Angel and Ferren and the Doomsday Mission.
The global release date for the third book, Ferren and the Invaders of Heaven is Feb 26th, 2025.
PRAISE FROM MAJOR FANTASY AUTHORS
ISOBELLE CARMODY on FERREN AND THE ANGEL
”Ferren and the Angel is that rare thing, a profoundly original fantasy that is at the same time, funny, tender and wise. A lovely gem of a book”
— from the acclaimed author of the Obernewtyn series
IAN IRVINE on THE FERREN TRILOGY
“Captivating, dazzlingly original fantasy!”
— from the creator of the hugely successful Three Worlds fantasy series
JACK DANN on RICHARD HARLAND
“Harland is a wonderful writer … he will take you to some pretty weird and wild places”
— from the, author of The Memory Cathedral and winner of the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards
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