The Wind of Venus is now available!

The Wind of Venus, Part I of The Aeoliad, is now available for purchase.

Damn.

Here goes the blurb:

"A crippled airship appears in the southern skies of Venus. Its only occupant and survivor: a child named Aeolia. Her people gone, her origins a mystery, the Cytherean people welcome her in their midst. She learns their way of life, a people's concert of horizontal democracy and utopian ideals. Together, they navigate the stormy skies of their planet as she becomes a young woman who daydreams about the impossible day her people will return to space.

Yet peace can be an elusive thing, for the wind brings rumors of a great threat lurking beyond the equator. There are unknown forces lurking in the farthest reaches of the planet, forces that will stop at nothing to subjugate the world. Aeolia and the Cythereans scramble to put together a response as their way of life is tested to its limits in a desperate struggle for survival.

THE WIND OF VENUS is the first part of The Aeoliad, a series of novels chronicling Aeolia's journey in search for peace and understanding, for answers for the questions that surround her homeworld and the worlds beyond."

Wind is a labor of love and it's incredibly exciting to finally be able to put it out there. It's only Part I of what I expect to be a seven-part saga. It explores so many of the themes I'm interested in: solarpunk, liberatory politics, space exploration and settlement, ecology, utopian science fiction, and too many others to list here.

This is link for purchase (yes, the irony of publishing a book containing strong left-wing themes on a hypercapitalist monopolistic platform is not lost on me -- self-publishing is a bitch), and, if you're on the fence, you can read the first chapter for free here.

Cheers!