So I started writing Lady of the Horde…

 So I started writing Lady of the Horde. It’s set decades after Collider, after Seven Thunders, which features the origins of the character I used to think as the lead character of the story, until I settled on that title. As such it concludes a trilogy, a direct sequence of events surrounding the second Danab War.

But the title character is a Danab. 

The Danab are humans who were plucked off of the planet Earth during the Viking age, resettled on an alien world, and returned somewhere in the vicinity of modern times, a little into the future, sparking what humans variously call the Calamity but certainly the Danab War, which resulted in humanity joining the Galactic Alliance. A clever human cracked the code for faster-than-light travel, an equation that opens access to something called the Pasear Field (since I love comic books this was probably borrowed from Johnny Quick).

Anyway, the trilogy that opens the Danab Cycle, as I said, hinges on the Second Danab War, when humanity has settled into the galactic community, and as such are trying to figure out how they can coexist with the Danab. Obviously there are complications.

By Lady of the Horde, the second war has already occurred (in Seven Thunders), and tensions have reverted back to where they were in Collider. 

And so a human who experienced pivotal moments in the second war is thrust into preventing a third from happening, despite every possible difficulty arising to make it all but inevitable…

And he finds as his most unlikely ally the lady of the horde. A Danab. 

Writing the prologue, which is something I include in all of these, I took a very different tack than I have previously (usually simply a statement on what’s to come), very much digging deep into the mythology of the Danab Cycle…And now I will have to write the story itself, how our Danab lady experiences these events. They are hardly kind to her! At one point she’s presumed dead, only to return with cybernetic implants that only provoke further doubts in her mind as to how she fits in either world…

So it should be interesting, to write. I hope there are readers interested in this stuff. I published Collider in February, about a year after I wrote it. I will probably publish Seven Thunders later this year, more than a decade after I wrote it. In April I wrote a whole month’s worth of supporting material on this very blog. There are always stories to tell. If I start a mailing list, if I find real interest in this stuff, I could very easily write a new short for each mailing. I don’t have a problem writing. I have a hard time finding readers.

I do intend to keep providing updates, here, all the same…