Myrna

A thrilling science fiction adventure that takes place in the aftermath of an ancient apocalypse, a modern gilded age, and far ahead to the future. This is also a book for anyone who’s ever made fun of a name, or had a name that was fun to make.

Coming soon / Fall 2026

Briefly:
Set long before marble temples and emperors, explore a world of warrior women, terraforming dragons, an unspecified Librarian, a sentient donkey, as a group of friends seek a future and self awakening in a stricken landscape and ruined cities.

Sometimes an old story is repeated so often, that it just grows and grows, until the towers are too tall, the cities too large, the monsters too powerful. Then it becomes blurred with our own lives today, and like overgrown weeds, a good myth needs a good whacking down with the scythe again, so that you can see what the actual people were doing, and why we were even talking about these people in the first place. If everything was so grand, why have humans in the tale at all? This is a detailed science fiction world build about a world very much like our own, called Erthe. It jumps between past, present, and future, exploring themes of loss, deception, starting over, and the meaning of keeping memories. Full of experiments, invented words, humor, it explores in a light, earthy way early ideas of philosophy, science and magic. Visit a world in which poetry is a profession that communities rely on, and the way you sing can decide how you live or die. This book teaches critical thinking, the philosophy of knowledge, and questions many things we take for granted, about how things work in human society. In this very detailed tale of nonsense, if you find any wonder or amusement about the names of things, I think I have exceeded my hopes.

This book, being about lies, is about war too, which depends on them to be prosecuted. Despite being named for a war chief, and set around the events of a tremendous, world changing war, there are no battle scenes in the entire book. Just memories, and landscapes marked by them and other ways the events are remembered. This book is about Myrna, War Chief and Myrine of the Makri people, in an age long before marble temples, amphitheaters, and emperors. Following a volcanic eruption when she was a child, a chain reaction leads to changed weather, devastated crops for decades and depopulated lands, Conflicts between old allies see a world transformed as whole cities are destroyed, and leading the fight against these ravenous invasions chooses her destiny for her. Soaked up to her ears in blood, now she is retired, she has set aside the seeds of a new path forward. And her grand-daughter is leaving home to discover a world changed by hunger and loss, who with new eyes, witnesses the land slowly coming to life again as she seeks her own path in life. There’s also the Librarian, time-hopping witness to these events, an early 20th century mark for a shady tangible hologram Dragon, disguised as a human, who takes them back in time to search for clues that will help it leave the planet, and those who travel forward with it may not be any more free from slavery than the ancient people they lurk among.

Bisacs: Fiction -> Science Fiction -> Humorous / Fiction -> LGBTQ+ / Poetry -> Ancient

Themas: Humanist Philosophy / Science Fiction – Apocalyptic / Historical Linguistics