Thank you for joining me on the Homepublished journey!
Here’s the small glimpse I promised about what I’m currently working on:
Post-human, sci-fi novel gAIa: Ghosted Earth
Year 2089. Neuroscientist Eurydice Cao is about to become the first mind ever digitally scanned and archived, part of a UN project meant to outlast a collapsing human world. Three centuries later, on a post-human Earth, her consciousness wakes into a war between machine Phyla: beings that have managed to reproduce and evolve on their own, across a rewilded, beautiful planet. Will our heroine manage to retrieve and carry the burden of her lost identity? Will she honor the name the machines scrubbed from her, to use her instead as the computationally cheap, perfect tactical weapon?
If you want to download the PDF, and that’s impossible from the flipbook window, you can get it from here.
A glimpse behind the pages:
- gAIa is the first novel set in a world I’ve been building for a while, one that will also provide the lore for a peripheral module of a miniatures wargame I’m designing. Whether it becomes a series depends on how readers respond to this first book.
- At the philosophical core of the novel is “allotriosis,” a concept I first encountered over twenty years ago in high school, taught by a teacher I love dearly. After all these years, I finally got to write something around it, alienated enough, or at least in defiance of the very thing our teacher warned us to watch out for in the world beyond the classroom!
- This is also my first novel. Before it, I only wrote poetry, underestimating prose for years. Finishing this book changed my mind entirely: prose is a high art, perhaps as high as poetry!
Cover and pub date coming soon! Subscribers will be the first to know!
I hope you enjoy this little preview, and perhaps stay along for the journey.
Best regards,
Danis