Books of OMAI
OUTLINE OF THE SERIES
Book One Outland Exile
The world is getting younger; the Unity retires everyone at forty—just before they disappear.
The world is getting older; in the hardscrabble outlands, everyone expects to work hard for most of their doubled lifespan.
Lieutenant Malila Chiu, as an unknowing pawn in the stealth coup d’etat of General Eustace Jourdaine, is sent to the lawless outlands as punishment for her manufactured and real misconduct only to discover, to her dismay and revulsion, that her arrival is part of another plot by the savages. Jesse Johnstone, the oldest man she has ever met, captures her, humiliates her and drags her away. Malila’s education and enlightenment in the barbarous outlands “show her the stars.” Recaptured and returned to the hi-tech and short-lived Unity life, Malila is again a pawn of General Jourdaine. Her bravery and pluck are lauded–that is until Alpha_Drover drives her to the brink. (Published October 2015, iUniverse, pp394)
Book 2 Exiles’ Escape
Malila is forced into a moral dilemma when she learns that the Unity controls only by illusion. Escaping the dilemma of her illusion and the illusion of her society, Malila goes to ground and joins forces with her childhood friend, Hecate Jones, in an attempt to return to the outlands. She and Hecate discover a wounded and lamed man, Will Butler, who is also trying to escape. Despite his grievous injuries, he is capable of navigating the trackless underground passageways. They had better hurry. Jourdaine is pursuing them all–and gaining– even as he finalizes his plans for the conquest of the outlands. Jesse takes to the air to dodge assassins. (Published February 2018, Indigo River, pp 366;)
Book 3 Malila of the Scorch
Malila, lost in the Scorch, is hunted by Jesse Johnstone–until she allows him to find her. Things have changed, she has become an ambassador for the sentient plants of the Scorch, some of which are old friend/enemies of Jesse’s. He accompanies her to a peace conference with America, designed to forge a new alliance in light of the coming Unity Invasion. Meanwhile Will, Hecate and their computer entities delve deeply into the secrets of the Unity’s CORE to find the secrets that will save American lives. The peace conference ends with the invasion of the drones. (Published Indigo River November 2019; pp398)
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A New Trilogy: The Silence and the Gods
Book 1: After The Fall Was Over
The Unity is in trouble—half of the army lies dead, captured, or eaten in the outlands after the debacle of the Day of Ice. Jourdaine is probably dead, and only Fettwap Aliende has escaped, incidentally murdering a skimmer load of wounded to cover his cowardice. He recruits Blanche (nee' Riley) Woods, a TranTran (directed Transitioned Transgender) to cover his substantial bahookie.
The openCORE entities take their own counsel. If the Unity falls, they and the openCORE die. They see themselves as "babes on the floor of a bar fight" and decide to bite available ankles.
Book 2: Silence Within the Light
The Demarchy, ruling from "the seas to the stars" in blissful isolation from its less fashionable neighbors to the east, has gone silent. After almost a century, the automated weather reports ceased. Curious and hopeful of some military assistance, the newly triumphant Restructured States send a mission to find out. The embassy ( including a disgraced general, a troubled diplomat, and her estranged geologist husband, a plant nerd, and a Unity spy) discovers that the Demarchy, now ruled in the name of Enlightenment by the all powerful yet doomed Demarch, is a teetering colossus. Things are not as they seem. (late 2026)
Book 3: Marriage and Revolution
The Cernas, the discarded flotsam from the Unity's adventurism, are becoming a force to be reckoned with. Led by Red Ben (Professor Nortvengler of the Syntopia, with substantive alterations) the Cernas are flexing their muscles and demanding their inalienable rights--or whatever Ben tells them to say. Only the Green scarves oppose him. But for how long?
The Touloi, the remnant of the hereditary underclass of the Demarchy, are decimated, leaderless, aimless after the failure of enlightenment, and live hidden within the snowbound Sierras. But for how long?
America was broken in 2052, some of its pieces crushed with the Day of Ice and the Demarchian collapse. Can the continent be healed?
