In 2017, eccentric tech mogul and cult leader Richard Kryuss revamped an early prototype vessel for a planned recreational line of space cruise ships into a generational starship that would carry a carefully-selected few of his followers to a new world. Human beings had been declared an invasive species upon the Earth by a mysterious entity that sent everyone with a smart phone a digital eviction notice via text.
Effugium is a collection of interconnected short stories spanning over 200,000 years of post-Earth history.
It sets the stage for the full-length novel Exsilium, which finds the same entity that purged the Earth of humankind several millennia earlier threatening to do the same to Galenia, a planet colonized by the descendants of Effugium.
It’s got a giant robot, primitive humans hunting cloned dinosaurs, nanoweaponry that breaks its targets’ molecules down to ash, the resurrection of Kryuss, and a high school bully turned world leader.
Anshar is a space western novella set on the outermost Galenian Colony world of Anshar. It’s a barren, desolate, drug-infested wasteland ruled by ruthless gangsters and nomadic tribes of cannibals who wear human skin as clothing.
The book is a prequel of sorts to Exsilium, as it features the origin story of one of said book’s main characters. It’s a fast-paced, action-packed story that can be read and understood even if one hasn’t experienced the other books in the series.
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And stay tuned for Exitium, coming in 2021!
Patrick Walts 