I’m currently 88,873 words and 216 pages into No Other Gods, my first novel.
The first question when someone hears that, of course, whether in person or in social media, is: what is it about? That’s been a difficult question for me to answer, mostly because it requires boiling down the work of months and months into a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph.
But it’s a critical question, not least for when I start marketing the book, which should be fairly soon. So here’s what I’ve come up with so far:
No Other Gods
“You shall have no other gods before Me.”
Exodus 20:3“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C. ClarkeNo Other Gods is a Pinocchio story in a cosmic science fiction setting.
A man exists. He is a warrior. He knows little but to fight and to die, at different times and places, to impose the will of the gods. But while he fights, he does not die, and over time, comes to understand and remember that it was not always like this. That he was not always like this. And that those he sees as gods are not divine … they are men like him. And that he has been betrayed, altered, used.
With a warrior woman who also is beginning to awake to herself, this man must learn the truth to save his life, and his soul. And find a way to remind the gods that they are only human, after all.
His name is Geno.
I’ve just finished the twelfth chapter, and I’ve got three more chapters to write, but the progress is definitely downhill now, and the remaining chapters are not the largest ones on the book, either. In other words, it’s getting exciting!