Most of you know me as the anthropology and worldbuilding guy. A handful of you have followed the Chronicles of the Great Migration or the Shades and Shapes series.
But for a while now, I’ve been working on a secret project. I didn’t want to share it until I was certain it was something interesting and unique, something worth reading.
Today that changes. Today I want to tell you about my new standalone sci-fi novel, Exegesis.
What if you didn’t know why the world ended?
Seventeen years ago, the entities now known as Ribbons appeared in the sky without warning. The worlds military panicked but every weapon fired at them simply vanished. The day after the attack, they descended, and within a week, 99.9% of humanity vanished, and no one knows why or how or if any of them are alive or dead. To this forced removal of humanity, the ribbons offered only silence as they danced and swirled in the atmosphere, dimming the sunlight, and changing the climate.
The survivors rebuilt quietly, because loud noises wake the Ribbons. No guns. No bombs. No combustion engines. Just quiet analog lives.
Nyx and Solana are scavengers, the best their enclave has. They’ve built their lives in the shadow of a loss they’ve never fully processed. Their parents were taken when they were children, and the guilt of that has followed Nyx ever since. But after a collision with raiders, a pride of lions, and a Ribbon attack they barely survive, Nyx discovers something that might finally explain what the Ribbons are and what they want.
Unfortunately, it might be too late.
What began as a short story, quickly became a full novel. I can’t wait for you all to meet Solana and Nyx and the other members of the enclave. This book snuck up on me in the best possible way, and now it’s almost ready.
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