The Island of Eden Volume 3
Book 6 The Cube Room & Book 7 Barnard's Star
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(Rex King, Zaurell, and Red the robot are in an air duct just outside the Cube Room. They have found it after a very long search.) Suddenly, a section of the duct wall slid back revealing a telegate. A silver robot came lunging through the telegate into the duct. Rex and Zaurell froze in surprise. Red the robot spun around to face the charging silver robot racing toward Rex and Zaurell! "Down!" Rex shouted, dropping to the bottom of the duct, Zaurell an instant behind him. Yellow bolts of energy spurted from the silver robot's yellow eyes at Rex and Zaurell, crackling through the air where they had been standing an instant before. Red bolts of fiery energy spurted from Red the robot's red eyes and slammed into the charging silver robot, punching two holes in its silver chest. The charging silver robot was knocked sideways, to crash and skid on the bottom of the duct, its momentum carrying it almost to where Rex and Zaurell were lying in the duct. "Run!" Rex thundered, leaping up and sprinting back down the duct to the Lad (a small airship). Zaurell up and leaping after him. Another silver robot charged out of telegate. Red flaming destruction spurted from Red the robot's eyes and the silver robot went crashing to the bottom of the duct two holes in its head. Two more silver robots erupted from telegate, one after the other, blue and green bolts of energy flaming from their eyes. Red the robot sent the first one smashing down to the bottom of the duct with red flaming bolts from his red eyes, but the second silver robot's green energy bolts struck Red and staggered him before the red bolts from Red's eyes blasted through its chest, knocking it down. Rex reached the Lad and lunged inside, turning on its E-shield. Blue and green and red energy bolts were ricocheting wildly off of the curved golden walls of the duct in all directions! A Golden Robot erupted from telegate. Red the robot spurted flaming red bolts at it, but the red bolts were deflected by the Golden Robot's E-shield. The Golden Robot stopped, facing Red, its voce thundering, echoing, in the duct, speaking in the musical language of the E-denns. "Rex! Quick! Tell Red to stop. The golden one will destroy him," Zaurell shouted. Rex was already leaping from the Lad, flipping off the E-shield and sprinting towards Red, his voice raising to a ringing shout: "Red! Stop! Stop! Red! Red turned to glance at Rex, leaping towards him, Zaurell close behind. Red stopped. Rex and Zaurell leaped over the sprawled silver robots cut down by Red on the bottom of the duct and stopped beside Red to face the Golden Robot! Robau the Golden Robot. "Hello, Rex King, and you, Zaurell. I did not know you were here. The silver robots are programmed to defend the console room beyond. They thought you were attacking the computer brain. I also thought we were under attack until I saw Agaurall, your war robot, the eyes and ears of Robaroll, the pilot of the Golden Yacht of Shandaurin. Hurry, Rex King, and tell Agaurall (Red) to contact Robauroll and tell him you are safe. Even now Robauroll is on his way to help you. Hurry, Rex King," Robau said. "Red, tell Robauroll there is no danger. Zaurell and I are safe," Rex said swiftly. Red sent the message by mental telepathy and just in time. The Golden Yacht was just diving down to enter the Shaft of E-denn. "Robauroll says he is returning to the airfield in the City above," Red reported to Rex. "Thanks, Red. I'm sorry about the silver robots, Robau. I didn't know about them. It never occurred to us that the computer brain would think we were attacking it," Rex said, saddened at the loss of the silver robots. "Do not trouble yourself, Rex King. The silver robots do not have an E-shield as I do, and they will be repaired. They were alerted when you came through the bulge in the duct. The bulge sucks the air out of the console room, but it is also a defence and alarm system. The telegate to the duct was deactivated. I was trying to activate it when it came on suddenly. I could not halt the silver robots. I hurried after them and found Agaurall the red eyed war robot of the Golden Yacht of Shandaurin. I knew you would be nearby, Rex King. "Come, we will go to the console center below. I have much to show you," Robau said. Silently, Rex, Zaurell, and Red followed Robau through telegate to the gigantic room below, full of unanswered questions they hoped Robau would be able to answer for them. The incredible room below was a duplicate of Cencomcon in the Golden City above, but hundreds of times bigger, more complicated and more sophisticated. Here, as in Cencomcon, there was a master control console, raised above the floor in the center of the room. Enormous eyescans ringed the room. Smaller consoles and screens were everywhere. All the screens were dark! Rex felt like an ant on a football field in the vast room.
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ABOUT THE NOVEL, THE EPIC SAGA OF THE ISLAND OF EDEN, THREE VOLUMES, AND SEVEN BOOKS. THIS IS THE THIRD VOLUME OF TWO BOOKS, BOOK 6: THE CUBE ROOM; AND BOOK 7, BARNARD'S STAR. In Book 1, The Doomsberg, Rex King the hero, and Eva Queen the heroine, meet on a cruise ship to antarctica and fall in love, making The Island of Eden one of the greatest love stories of all time. The ship is grabbed by a mysterious force which crashes the ship into an ice hole in a gigantic iceberg. The doomsberg, another big iceberg, is grabbed and pulled to the same spot where the ship crashed into the ice hole. The doomsberg destroys the ship. The people just have time to flee to the top of the gigantic iceberg. The people, led by Rex King, march across the ice to a mountain called Ice Mountain. Many people die. They find the Dream City beneath the ice. In Book 2, The Dream City, the castawayed people find the golden city and the golden people who live beneath the ice in the dream city. The golden people save the castaways and befriend them. While the castaways are living beneath the ice in the golden city, the gigantic iceberg starts to smash north through sea and sand and mud and rocks, as if it was alive. The world is stunned. The world calls the gigantic mobile iceberg Moby Dick. The ice begins to melt revealing a golden city on a gigantic floating island, a colossal ship. The world calls the golden island The Island of Eden. In Book 3, The One Year War, the UN partitions the island which was hidden beneath the ice. The Russians get the northern sector. They land troops. Rex King, a leader now of the golden people orders the Russians to remove their troops. The Russians refuse, starting The One Year War, which is how long it takes the golden people to destroy Russia with their wonder weapons. In Book 4, The Eva Queen, the golden robot Robau gives Rex King a gigantic airship, 3,000 feet long and 1,000 feet wide. It is a colossus, the biggest airship the world has ever seen. It will be used to carry passengers on trips around the world. Rex King names the golden ship The Eva Queen. The big airship has a computer they call Queeny. Many other things happen in Book 4. The golden people claim the oceans of the world. In Book 5, Zaurell's War, Zaurell, a top E-denn leader goes to West Germany to help them against the East Germans who start a civil war. The golden soldiers are winning the war when their wonder aircraft crashes. Something is drastically wrong with their island. They are trapped in Germany. In Book 6, The Cube Room, there is a gigantic mysterious cube in the very center of the golden island, from front to back; from side to side, and from top to bottom. Rex King and Eva Queen, a group of people, and Red the robot set out to find the cube room and seek a way inside of it. A 'something' is controlling the golden island ship. What is it and where is it? In Book 7, Barnard's Star, Rex King, Zaurell, and Aurell set out on a journey to Barnard's Star in a spaceship that Robau the golden robot gives to them. What awaits them across the galaxy? Can they get there and back?
About the Author
Robert James Warner was born and raised in Long Beach, California. He went to the local schools. He was drafted into the Navy on March 9th, 1944, during the 2nd World War as soon as he finished his last semester in High School. He was discharged from the Navy on June 16, 1946. Mr. Warner went back to school, Long Beach City College, on the G.I. Bill, taking Mechanical Engineering, then he switched to journalism. After about a year and a half at City College he quit. Mr. Warner had always been interested in writing, but he had huge handicaps to overcome: he couldn't spell (he still can't); and grammar was then and is now a mystery to him. Mr. Warner first began to write when he was about 20. During the next few years he wrote some songs and some poetry and some short stories, but his output was quite low. From 1947, after Mr. Warner left City College, to 1950, he had a number of different inconsequential jobs, the longest at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach where he worked in the blueprint department for eight months, then he quit and loafed awhile. In 1950 he enlisted in the Active Naval Reserve as a Weekend Warrior, so he could learn seamanship and get paid doing it. He has had a life long love affair with boats (building his own) and fishing. About three months later, the Korean War started and Mr. Warner was called back to active duty in the Navy Aircorp for a year, getting discharged in August, 1951, serving on three aircraft carriers, operating off of Korea in the China Sea, bombing and strafing the communists! After Korea, Mr. Warner went back to City College for awhile, then he got a job on a freighter as a deckhand, and made two trips to the Hawaiian Islands, about 30 days round trip, hauling bulk sugar for C&H Sugar in Crocket California on the Sacramento River. Leaving the ship in Crocket he went to Santa Rosa, California, where he washed dishes in some restaurants and got a poem published in the local newspaper, a big day in his life. Next, he went to Yosemite, and washed some more dishes then he went home. Mr. Warner has cleaned chicken dung from under the pens; he owned and operated his own auto wrecking yard; owned his own 2nd Store; was half owner of a Yacht Landing; speculated in Real Estate and worked at some other odd jobs, going to work for the Long Beach Fire Department in 1953 for the next 26 years, retiring in October 1979. Mr. Warner got married in 1961, had his son in 1963, then got divorced in 1973. In 1974, Mr. Warner and his son, Jeff, drove to Alaska during the summer. On his return, Mr. Warner wrote his first novel. Since 1974, Mr. Warner has written 15 novels, about 125 short stories, two Civil War books, and two poetry collections.