Iron Gods: Exclusive excerpts only on The AKB Newsletter
Jun 2nd, 2008 by Ashok
I’m now serializing the first one-third of my first major hard SF novel, Iron Gods, on The AKB Newsletter.
This is the only way you will get to read these chapters–the equivalent of around 175 published book pages–of this particular book for a long while. There are no plans to publish it outside India anytime, and even the Indian publication date is not set, since I haven’t submitted it yet.
Iron Gods is the working title of the book earlier titled Palimpsest: Book 1 of The Ganesa Palindrome. I no longer know for sure if it will be complete in itself or part of a series, but what I can confirm is that it is genuine hard Science Fiction set in contemporary times.
Various synopsis of the plot have circulated–on Wikipedia, on Amazon (which apparently also lists the book’s publication date and publisher, incorrectly), and elsewhere. They are all incorrect.
The premise of IRON GODS is quite simple:
The gods of various faiths are at war. Because their believers are at war.
A small select group of individuals from all the major faiths on Earth (on multiple Earths, in point of fact) are selected by a being that appears to be the Hindu God Ganesa, and put aboard a quantum bullet, headed directly for…the Creator.
The mission: To appeal to the Creator to stop the War before all Creation is destroyed.
But there are saboteurs in the ranks. And intolerance is a powerful weapon. And even Ganesa, Remover of Obstacles, can’t force people to accept one another’s faith and Gods, especially when each religion insists that it is the only true path to God.
As they hurtle through time and space towards the Creator, can they stop the ultimate War of Wars, or will they only help fuel and fan it until all Creation is destroyed?
Only Ganesa knows.
