Monica Smit – författare

Mystic is in his element, as he and his sister, Sage, land in a futuristic world, on the AI ship, Sofia, where spaceships are controlled by Artificial Intelligence. In their fifth adventure, the two mages cross over to the universe of the Landrys. They encounter five cousins, the children of the original Landrys, on their way to a Comic Convention, held on the planet, Sapphire. Sage is at a distinct disadvantage as her memory stone had been lost in their fourth adventure. To her dismay, Ashe asks to take a break, just as she's ready to move forward with their precarious relationship. Go figure! Mystic is sent on a separate mission, to the ship, Maximus, where the arch-enemy of the Landrys, space pirate captain Tomas Salvinski, is still up to no good. Salvinski veers off-course, to uncharted space. What heinous crimes will the pirate commit and will justice be served this time around? And who knew the Landry universe had aliens all this time?

In this second adventure, sibling mages Mystic and Sage still find themselves in the year 2002. They meet up once again in our world, as strangers in the laundromat, from where they are swept away to a steampunk version of Victorian England. They face danger in the air, on Lord Upton's airship, deal with the real Typhoid Mary in the city of New York and help solve a deadly cholera outbreak in London, and geese. Don't forget about those vicious geese. Join them as the clock is ticking in their race against time, to beat this level of the game. In the little Karoo town of Murraysburg, they have to fix an actual clock in a church steeple, before they can return home - and all of this, without the use of electricity.

In their fourth adventure together, Mystic and Sage take their half-brother to Cornwall, where the two mages vanish before his very eyes. Now, Cecil has no choice, but to believe their tall tales. The siblings are transported to an elven realm, where they meet Ashe's family for the first time. Lord Upton wants his anti-matter canister back, but there is no safe way to give it to him. Neither the elves, nor the fae have electricity, to recharge the battery of the canister, so how will they manage to overcome that obstacle safely? Zola takes a leave of absence and the mages sorely miss her psychic input. Along the way, the mages manage to acquire a new companion, are duped by a changeling, trick a unicorn and meet the evil fae king, Oberon. Why are they in the elven kingdom in the first place and their gracious hosts have ulterior motives, which are yet to be uncovered.

In their third adventure, ten years had gone by in the real world for sibling mages, Mystic and Sage. Neither have any memory of their previous two adventures. When Mystic visits the Rollright standing stones in Penzance on a whim, his memory stone is charged once more. Zola, their psychic gecko, frantic by this time, is now able to speak to Mystic at last. Plunged back into the gaming world, the mages dodge flying dinosaurs and discover that they have another sibling - or a half one, anyway. Sage learns something profound about herself, putting her whole life in a new perspective. On their main quest, to complete this broken level, hunting for the canister, containing a single particle of anti-matter, they have to compete with stone-age hunter-gatherers, to win it back. Will they get it back in time, before the battery runs out, or will it go boom, obliterating the whole world and all of them with it? Who exactly is Upton, and who said taming a dinosaur was easy?

In their sixth, penultimate adventure, sibling mages, Mystic and Sage arrive in a post-apocalyptic gaming world. It is contaminated with radiation as well as biologicals and everything is out to get you. Sage manages to corner Upton, for some long-overdue talks. This world has little ambient magic and the Mages are forced to rely on their wits to stay alive. Mystic finds out the hard way, that "e;fireball"e; is not a universal solution to their predicaments. Ashe has problems of his own, as the games start spilling over into the real world. Will the adventurers survive the perils of level six, where humans prove to be more dangerous than the resident monsters? Or is this the end of everything, as the name of the World's End Wishy Washy suggests?