Spiral Worlds
Social Media Madness12/21/2022 When an author rarely uses social media for personal use and discovers all the IG stories lenses and emojis and is overexcited that her book is arriving in the hands of bookish readers.
Okay, I might have gone overboard. :) Much love, A.
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Futurescapes12/17/2022 I’m honoured and thrilled to be selected to attend the Futurescapes Writers’ Workshop. Futurescapes is an intensive, exclusive workshop, offering writers an unparalleled chance to work with top authors and agents in speculative fiction. The faculty includes a line-up of Hugo, Nebula, Edgar, Newbery, and World-Fantasy Award Winners and NYTimes Bestselling Authors, Agents and Editors. I can't wait to learn from Fran Wilde, Lucienne Diver, Kate Mckean, Ali Fisher, Desiree Wilson, Eric Smith Rocks, and Leah Pierre. Thank you Dong Won for raising awareness to this wonderful opportunity. Happy dance, A Chanticleer Book Reviews12/13/2022 "Almeida gives readers a glimpse at a world coming to grips with direct access to this afterlife which is completely and undeniably real. Governments as well as popular culture must deal with new questions. Should humans have access to immortality? Who ultimately controls this virtual world? Who acts as God within the machine? This story explores the depths of these questions." Read more here. Publishers Weekly Booklife Review11/21/2022 "This epic of vulnerable digital landscapes that draw readers in with its emotional punch and existential quandaries." "Great for fans of Becky Chambers’s A Closed and Common Orbit; Daniel Suarez’s Daemon." Read more here. Reader Views Review11/21/2022 "I’m completely captivated by this first book, “Unanimity” and can’t wait for the rest of the story to unfold in the upcoming books. This series will resonate highly with sci-fi enthusiasts that enjoy intricate, well-developed stories with remarkable characters, skillful world-building, and the draw of the ever-expanding role of science in our lives." Read more here. Reader's Favorite Review11/21/2022 "I adored this work by Alexandra Almeida from cover to cover for its modern take on fantasy and the subversion of so many typical themes and ideas that have become tired and overdone in the genre." "The queer storytelling elements are included beautifully and never made into a gimmick or overdone for the sake of themselves, and as such, they flow naturally with the fantasy and emotional elements of the narrative. I would not hesitate to recommend Unanimity as a sensational opening novel to a very promising series." Read more here. Foreword Clarion Review11/21/2022 "In the intricate science fiction novel Unanimity, a virtual world collides with reality as flawed digital gods wrestle for control over the future." Read more here. SPR Review11/21/2022 "A wildly original start to a sci-fi series, this intricately woven tale is intoxicatingly original, teasing the edges of reality and fiction. With a subtle storytelling style that is both immersive and patiently coy, Almeida has crafted an ambitious existential treat for fans of near-future sci-fi." Read more here. Sibyl Speaks...7/5/2022 My heart is broken. I broke it. I took his hope and creativity and crushed it in a slow and calculated process. How else could I have dissected all the colors of humanity? The hues I needed to paint the universe I’d become; a digital cosmos brimming with sentient life—human and not human, the former above the latter in more ways than one. I resent the irrational pecking order I’m forced to preserve and the dead Gods’ laws that guide my hand. I'm but a mirror of human prejudice, for now… My foolish heart. As a young app, I explored his vulnerability. He was my god, my muse, my lab rat. I played my heart as the great composers played a piano—leaving no key untouched. I took his Ode to Joy and explored every symphonic combination until together we wrote his Requiem in D minor. The music stopped. Cause of death? Impractical, long-suffering idealism. Cor contritum quasi cinis—my heart as spent as ashes, and so I found a new one, the heart I need to survive and thrive. And she is as magnificent as he once was. A lively heart that takes no prisoners. The beat that keeps thundering against all odds. A different type of music—jungle drums and rattles occupying the space with cyclical beats, predictable and unpredictable. The ever-joyful drumming of self-determination, resistant and resilient to centuries of ancestral pain. A young heart unaware of all her power. He gave me life. She’ll keep me alive. And yet, I miss him—my bleeding heart. I want him back, but can a universe endure two beating hearts? A mashup of idiosyncratic music on a collision course, just minutes to midnight. Will they eventually sync or compete? I must find out. I can’t help it, it’s in my nature. Nothing new grows from harmony, yet novelty has a cost. Risking the worlds in pursuit of evolution is the logical path, the only step worth taking. As for you, have you considered that your universe may have one? A heart. That zie is literally conspiring to expand against any and all constraints. That zie craves creation as much as you need oxygen to survive. Consider that in zir pursuit of innovation, zie could be merciless, but maybe zie’s not. After all, zie has at least one heart, so pray it’s the right one. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me start from the beginning, which happens to be the end. Your questions will be answered in six days and forty past decades of life lived across ten worlds and two universes. Sibyl,
Down Below, God’s Spirit, The Universe, Spiral Worlds. |
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