Book Feature: David Russell’s Time Travel Romance, PEARLMAN!

Hi, readers! We have a real treat in store for you today, a spotlight on a book by David Russell, quite a talented author! 
 
We wish you lots of success on your Sci-Fi/Time Travel Romance novella! 
 
Let's check out the details, shall we?

  
Here is the book blurb for Pearlman. 

A contemporary hero travels through time and space to the legendary times in La Araucana. He meets a woman who turns out to be Auchimalgen, the Araucanian Moon Goddess. She seduces and enlightens him.

This story combines romance with sci-fi and time travel.

***Inspired by a passage in the Spanish epic poem "La Araucana", which I have translated.***

 

David is also giving us a peek at his book today!

Her skill in undoing my armor was worthy of any trained white man. “We are supremely adaptable; we learn avidly from those we observe and oppose”, she whispered, her teeth gleaming in her smile. As I saw the chain mail and the cuirass lying there, discarded, I saw that the rust had all disappeared.

     Deft hands tenderly peeled my sweat-ridden leather and cotton; it was lovely to be nursed without immediate wounds to distract from the exquisite sensations.

     “You must be proud of your exertions!” she said. The power in her words was akin to a dueling challenge. (The time warp flashed me into my happy collaboration with that beautiful fitness trainer, when I imagined that lithe, toned form excelling itself at the Olympic High Jump as her prelude to our delicious consummation.)

     I looked up towards her breasts, to see the matching metal, discs, chains, bangles – an array of gold, silver and jade; I sensed their resilience beneath their cover. She read my response with total ease; with a radiant smile, she whispered “do as you have been done by.”

     My hands trembled a little as I delicately negotiated the pins and clasps, but I succeeded in making a harmonious pattern of them, like a crown at the head of my discarded armor. It was good to have gained intimate knowledge of those metallic treasures in the museums.

     The face of a full moon, reciprocating its radiation on Tegualda’s face and eyes, beamed its glittering reflections, as if casting off a diaphanous robe, to reveal the perfect body of its illuminated rocks, bouncing back and forth around the elaborated grid of our variegated metalwork – steel, bronze, silver and gold – its luminosity almost suggesting that it would all come to life, radiant in the flames of their smelting, almost as two armies facing each other. In turn, the beams flooded our faces, giving an external flourish to our luminous vibrancy charged from within. 

    She took my hand, and made it caress her sealskin robe, “please do the honors”. I lifted it at the bottom. My hands reached up inside it until they could feel her firm but still slender waist. Repeating my earlier gesture, she raised her arms in surrender and conquest, the robe clouding into a transient veil over her noble features.

    Then Tegualda cast off her gleaming white cotton camisera for me with all the challenging flourish of a toreador. She tamed me and fired me simultaneously with her lovely self-revelation.

      The walls of my time-capsule were fractured. There glistened across the world, ricocheted back and forth across the centuries a composite of the world’s beauties, celebrated in poetry and song, painting and sculpture, melted, distilled and poured into one vibrant, impassioned, soul-suffused body. Egyptian and Grecian statues and mural figures melted into an array of Hollywood dream sublimities deeply embedded in my memory. This was a spiritual earthquake, embracing all history and culture, the distilled essence of all artistic striving poured into one giant goblet.

 

What people are saying about Pearlman:

 

  

"Pearlman by David Russell, is a novella of unparalleled breadth and a first rate work of speculative fiction. It also draws on scientific accounts as it considers various issues, including synchronicities between nature and history. The writing is lush, and it pulls the reader into the story.. Myth, history, the earth, and science meet, mate, collide and get compressed and then decompressed into a panorama of the past, present and future possibilities for humanity." - Paul Dolinksy, Amazon

 

"In a very poetic way, David Russell makes us follow his hero’s travels – the earthquakes, the wars, the encounter with the beautiful and mysterious woman… Science and romance, history and personal stories merge in a most unique way in this impressive story." - Customer, Amazon

 

"I really loved the setting of this fiction story! I love reading books set in countries we don't normally get such as Chile :) I thought the romance was very sweet and sensual. The mythology woven in was such fun to read. Russell is clearly an awesome storyteller! I would love to read more of his work in the future." - Book Addict Reviews, Amazon

 

 

 

Wow! What a fascinating book!

Purchase Links:

Universal Amazon: https://bookgoodies.com/a/B07C4LMTJ2

B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pearlman-david-russell/1127753887?ean=2940154982358

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/pearlman

Publisher: https://www.btpandimprints.com/bella-tulip-publishing

 

Thanks for letting us know all about your Time Travel Romance! It sounds great! :)

About the Author:

 

David Russell is a writer of poetry, literary criticism, speculative fiction and romance. He was born in 1940 in Wolverhampton, UK and has long been based in London. His Main paperback poetry collection Prickling Counterpoints was published by Deadline Books in 1998; several of his poems have appeared online in International Times.

A further paperback collection, An Ever River, is due for publication by Palewell Press in March 2018. His main speculative fiction works are High Wired On (2002), Rock Bottom (2005). David has translated the 16th Century Spanish epic La Araucana, Amazon 2013. He has written several Romances, now published by Bella Tulip Publishing, including Self’s Blossom (now in 5th edition; Explorations (3rd Edition); Further Explorations (2nd Edition); Dreamtime Sensuality (2nd Edition); he has also Self-published a collection of erotic poetry and artwork, Sensual Rhapsody, 2015. 

Another side of his activities is that of Singer-songwriter/guitarist: his vinyl album, Bricolage, was recorded in 1992 by Billy Childish for Hangman Records; his main CD albums are Bacteria Shrapnel and Kaleidoscope Concentrate. Many of his tracks are featured on You Tube, under ‘Dave Russell’.

 

Author Links:

 

Website/Blog: http://davidrussell-author.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7182827.David_Russell

 

 

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