The Symbiosis has Started

So.

It’s out! Poiesis is now available worldwide on Amazon (exclusively, for now), and this means Symbiosis has begun. Which is pretty bad, for me, I guess, because now I have to continue with this thing, and it will finally consume what little sanity was left.

Well. That happens.

Luckily, I’m not alone in this one (and that’s the main reason I finally managed to face it, as the project has been there, waiting, since 2016): Symbiosis is another double-headed project I’m tackling together with my wife, Valentina Kay.

Also, you may have seen that Peter Watts has penned the intro — so you can imagine stoke levels around here. And what an intro it is. Peter says the book is “revolting” and that “the one genre Poiesis undeniably belongs to is Batshit.” Yeah.

But, apart from being (undeniably) Batshit, what’s Symbiosis about? Well, it’s about a bee colony Captain named Petra, who commands a star icebreaker capable of converting into thought to travel through the mind of the universe. It’s a blend of mind-twisting horror and wild space adventure. And you get it in bite-sized episodes, which you can devour in a single sitting. Poiesis is the first installment — a standalone novella of about 70 pages — and it’s about a derelict ghostship and about Resonance Conservation — the principle denying the creation of true artificial minds. And about cyber-zombies. And guts. And a lot of other things as well…