WELCOME TO
MENDELSTOV
IMMERSIVE FICTION
Mendelstov is the first novel of a series of seven.
It qualifies as magical realism or contemporary fantasy. And yet it is timeless. Some say it reads like an epic film.
It can be read, experienced, seen, heard,
tasted, smelled, listened to and followed.
It is a manifest for freedom. An epic, treacherous and symbolic journey accross a continent in the near future.
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‘A HISTORICAL NOVEL, SET IN THE FUTURE. GRIPPING AND COMPELLING,
WRITTEN IN A WARM, EMOTIONAL STYLE.’
'I AM
OXZANA MENDELSTOVA'
Mendelstov is about the power of the human voice in a desert quest to save the world from a deadly allergy.
The Inter Human Allergy, commonly known as The Shun, has struck mercilessly in The Great Assault. Families and villages are torn apart. People are forced to live isolated, 12 meters apart, able to spend no more than two days together at once or their lungs will slowly but surely turn to stone.
In this world controlled by the Azorite army, Oxzana goes on a quest to save her world from annihalation and military control. Disguised as a boy, she sets out on a long and intense journey to find an antidote.
This book is available in book stores in Dutch
(hard cover & ebook)
English ebook coming out soon
‘IT IS THE VOICE THAT TURNS THE WHEEL OF LIFE TOWARDS REDEMPTION AND THE GRAIL
OR TO THE REALM OF DARKNESS AND DECAY’
CURRENT ISSUES
HISTORICAL FICTION
GENDER EQUALITY - AMAZONISM - FEMINISM
Oxzana grew up in a culture where amazonism and shamanism, next to the Orthodox principles of the Old Believers are still honored. Boys and girls get the same upbringing and horses play a big role in their lives.
Here, the amazones from ancient times are still held in high esteem. Not only are they revered as heroes in martial arts, but also as healers. Like Oxzana's grandmother and Onna, the priestess of the Toad Cult. Names of Greek warriors like Atalanta, Penthesilia en Antiope are recurrent.
De Scytian amazones together with the legendary Greek Amazones modeled for The Guards Army in Mendelstov, in a futuristic Novorusky version.
OTHER RECURRING THEMES
Free gender choice, gender expression, gender fluidity and sexual orientation. Free choice of identity.
Oppression of women, discrimination and the stockholm syndrome.
Pandemics and social disruption.
Migration and refuge.
Despotism, moral decay, genocide.
Freedom and redemption.
Legacy for our offspring and world pollution.
THE
GUARDS DIVISION
NEW BOOK
BY MELLIUS
COMING
SOON
NIGHTGLOW
COMING SOON
Esa, a girl from Amsterdam in the 17th century, falls in love with a half-demon. She competes with him in an illegal street race with horse and carriage, but is disguised as a boy to be able to do so.
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In a time that is dominated by greed and speculation, there is one great relief, a drink called Nightglow. It is brewed by Angels and Demons from a rare species of tulip and makes the world glow with a rare blue twinkle.
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This drink also playes a role in the first novel, Mendelstov.