Welcome back to the Atlas Friends.
If you have been following The Strings of Us, you know we are dealing with cosmic gravity, space-faring rabbits, and industrial sabotage. But the beautiful thing about building an alternative history of Earth is that we get to explore all of history.
Today, we are jumping out of the sci-fi darkness and into the sun-drenched Agora of Ancient Athens. I am sharing a raw, unedited glimpse into the first act of the book, featuring something you might not expect in a sci-fi epic: an ancient Greek fable.
We are about to meet Demetrius, an impossibly boastful human Olympian, and Philoc, a gravity-manipulating rabbit who just really, really loves figs.
The raw, unedited draft of this fable—along with my Director’s Notes on why I injected a comedy into a sci-fi book, is below for members of the Cartographers Guild.
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Read Raw & Unedited Here: 👉 001, 002, 003
Philoc The Swift
Philoc the messenger was one of the swiftest and most agile rabbits of his time. People assumed he was looked over by Hermes with the way that he could convey messages faster than even the fastest of horseback riders. It was said he had wings on his feet just like the god, and could practically fly along the ground with the way that he ran. Ironically, the humans who would comment as such were often the closest to the truth.
