Mage of Fools, Eugen Bacon
Mage of Fools, Eugen Bacon
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Mage of Fools

Author: Eugen Bacon

Narrator: Kofi Boakye

Unabridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/15/2022


Synopsis

In the dystopian world of Mafinga, Jasmin must contend with a dictator’s sorcerer to cleanse the socialist state of its deadly pollution …

Mafinga's malevolent king dislikes books and, together with his sorcerer Atari, has collapsed the environment to almost uninhabitable. The sun has killed all the able men, including Jasmin’s husband Godi. But Jasmin has Godi’s secret story machine
that tells of a better world, far different from the wastelands of Mafinga. Jasmin’s crime for possessing the machine and its forbidden literature filled with subversive text is punishable by death.

Fate grants a cruel reprieve in the service of a childless queen who claims Jasmin’s children as her own. Jasmin is powerless—until she discovers secrets behind the king and his sorcerer.

About Eugen Bacon

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of several novels and fiction collections as well as Writing Speculative Fiction. Her books Ivory's Story, Danged Black Thing, and Saving Shadows were finalists for the British Science Fiction Association Awards, and she has been nominated for, or has won awards, including the Foreword Indies Award, Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant, Otherwise Fellowship, Nommo Award, and others. Bacon's creative work has appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing, Fantasy magazine, Year's Best African Speculative Fiction, and Fantasy & Science Fiction.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nuzo

When the final chapter of a book ends with the heading “DENOUEMENT” you know instinctively that you are in the presence of a master—or in this case, a mistress of words! Armed with her all-conquering sword for carving unforgettable, lyrical and magical prose, Dr. Eugen Bacon has, yet again, delivere......more

Goodreads review by Alison

Jasmin is the mother of two small children living in Mafinga, a country where all the men have been killed by the sun and the King has decreed a socialist state where everybody is equal (though some more than others) and everybody must contribute to the whole by working in their assigned places. But......more

Goodreads review by Jen

A dystopian world where women function nocturnally to escape the harmful effects of a brutal sun, a unified society reaches a breaking point in Mage of Fools by Eugen Bacon. To read this, and other book reviews, visit my website: [URL not allowed] In Mafinga, a place ruled by th......more