Make-Make Machine: A Historical/Sci-Fi Novel

By Mr. Deke D. Wagner

Miss Eva Rutledge is an attractive young woman and a noted English archaeologist, and along with her aging father Sir Clive Rutledge, an eminent archaeologist in his own right, travel to Easter Island on a archeological exhibition. Once established on the mysterious Pacific island, a local priestess named Angata shows Eva a strange, petrified skull, supposedly that of "Make-Make," the Creator, which is enshrined in a volcanic cave dating back to ancient times. The skull is small and its cranium large and elongated, unlike any she's ever seen before. Later, after a minor earthquake rocks the island, the crater lake of Rano Kao, a dormant volcano, is suddenly drained revealing the crash site of a "fallen star," as the natives call it. Upon closer inspection, Eva Rutledge and her father realize it is an ancient flying machine made of some strange, metallic alloy-perhaps a spaceship of alien origins? Then Admiral Graf Spee and the East Asia Squadron arrives on Easter Island, and soon discovers the hidden "Make-Make Machine" and seizes it in the name of the German Empire. Alas, the world has been cast into chaos after the cataclysmic events of June 28, 1914.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B096C461JY
• ISBN13: 9798721952791
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"