My Friend is an Earthling

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Sword & Sorcery, Wizards, Young Adult, and Novels

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Violence

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Publication Date

Feb 26, 2026

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209 pages

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My Friend is an Earthling

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Blurb

A boy wizard and his Earthling friend fight to save both planets from the evil Council.

When his parents disappear, Slavik, a human boy wizard from the planet Krasny, must save them. He follows clues that lead him to Earth, where he meets Rita, an apprentice psychic. Meanwhile, the evil Council of Krasny sends its Elite forces to Earth with a magic bomb powerful enough to teleport entire planets, hoping to blackmail Earth into submission. Slavik and Rita must rescue his parents and work with their allies to save both planets. Can they decode the bomb and find the right spell in time?

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Genres

Sword & Sorcery, Wizards, Young Adult, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Violence

Type of Ending

Series

Not part of a series

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Amazon

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Publication Date

Feb 26, 2026

Page Length

209 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

Mark Budman is a refugee and writer blending the magic of other worlds with the reality of Earth. His fiction has appeared in Abyss & Apex and Virginia Quarterly, and he is the author of several books, including the novel My Life at First Try. Frequently mistaken for Kafka by an AI, Mark now spends his time writing about immigration, be that on this planet or on others.