Chen Tzu is the pseudonym of Stephen Chensue, a physician, scientist and writer with interests ranging from shamanic healing to nanotechnology. He has authored numerous scientific publications in the field of Immunology. His non-scientific works include poetry and novels. Some of which are available here. His thematic interest is the collision of the mystical-fantastic with the material-scientific. His first novel, THE ZAMA CODEX, was inspired while investigating shamanic practices in Mexico and Central America. See Blogger News Network and The Siren Reviews for independent book reviews, Blogger News. My website is at Chen Tzu Creations features other written works as well as a multimedia creations.
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Print: $17.95 Download: $5.00 The Zama Codex is a fictional novel set in Central America and structured as alternating chapters describing parallel stories, one set during the fall of the Mayan classic age and the other at a present day archeological excavation. The reader is drawn into the life of Zama, a scribe and noble living in a highland Mayan city-state (circa 800 A.D). When the city’s high priest prophesizes the demise of Mayan civilization, Zama becomes apprentice and scribe to Chaco, a sorcerer with an ambitious plan to save the best of Mayan mystical knowledge from oblivion. The parallel story follows events surrounding the discovery of Zama's codex containing instructions for the acquisition of mystical power on a cosmic scale.
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Print: $18.49 Download: $2.50 In the foothills and mountains of the American northwest, the deaths of a lamb and a pregnant teenager bring together, Jodi Higheagle, a beautiful veterinarian of Nez Perce descent, and Fred Wong, a half Chinese medical examiner with unusual talents. Their strange discoveries lead them on a dangerous journey into the bizarre world of a rising technoreligious sect known as the Temple of New Life. Together, they face off against the powerful and charismatic Reverend Baxter T. Drummond, a man obsessed by a childhood vision and haunted by a blighted past, whose creations will alter the fate of humanity.
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Print: $19.99 Download: $2.50 Set in the sacred valley of Shambala, the rich culture and myths of Tibetan Buddhism are brought to life in this tale of an epic battle for spiritual freedom which traverses the Buddhist realms of existence. Torn from his life as an Asian art historian in San Francisco, Gesar Despa awakes in the realm of Asura on the eve of a war between the defenders of Shambala and its rebel god-demons. There, he meets the beautiful dakini captain, Ane, whose comatose body is hunted in the Human realm by a demonic assasin. Caught between realms, Gesar struggles to save Ane and Shambala with the aid of his doctor and a group of mysterious Buddhist monks.
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