While I’m waiting for support to continue the dystopian, neuropunk novel Nodular, I’ve been working on a scifi novel that I don’t have a genre for. Like McCaffrey’s The Dragonriders of Pern, it’s a science fiction tale couched in fantasy tropes, but the term “science fantasy” implies the opposite: a fantasy story couched in scifi tropes. Like Pern, the world of The Heir of Annihilation, Kampania, is a false fantasy, a scifi setting in which the characters experience the world in a typical fantasy setting way.

In Heir, the people of Laramidia live a simple life fishing off the coast of the Thalassic Ocean, insulated from the politics of the Inner Seas to the east. Bram Swanjamin is the son of a fishing captain and a feather worker, but he’s apprenticed to a wandering sage who teaches him the knowledge brought to Kampania from the First World. After a catastrophic fishing trip with on his father’s boat, Bram is adrift and awaiting his mentor to return from his traveling in the east.

Check out The Heir of Annihilation.