Updated August 2023
A new series of science fiction space opera novels, “The Unwinding,” by Juliana Rew, continues to unwind! Book 1, “Gin’s Story,” appeared in 2019, from Sophont Press. A sequel, “Extremophile: Violet Rain,” was published in 2020. And a standalone prequel appeared in 2022!
Early reviews were great:
“A sci-fi romp that’s vast in scale yet thoroughly playful.” —Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus featured “The Unwinding: Gin’s Story as one of its “17 Great Indie Books Worth Discovering” (June 2020)
The novel has also garnered a Top 10 finish in the annual Critters Workshop Readers Poll for SFF novels published in 2019.
The Unwinding: Gin’s Story
A woman is shunted through time and space as two universes go to war.
Virginia Sun-Jones would be the first to tell you that riding a Korean water dragon through the cosmos is not for everyone.
But ever since the Unwinding scattered her family, she’s followed a trail of clues, hoping to find them. Gin can’t shake the feeling that the universe has a personal interest, as she discovers special quantum abilities and ventures away from the tiny haven of Earth.
With the aid of a time-traveling civilization known as the Watchmen, she fights a despotic galactic emperor seeking to destroy our universe. Gin’s Story is an exciting mystery adventure full of twists, disappointments, and triumphs.
The e-book’s available on Amazon. Free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers. Also available on Smashwords.
Also available in paperback at Amazon or Barnes and Noble (ISBN 978-1-7322189-9-4)
Book 2: Extremophile: Violet Rain
Book 2 of The Unwinding Series is out! Available on Kindle (free on Kindle Unlimited) and paperback at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Ebook’s also available on Smashwords.
Violet Rain, a homesick survivor of the devastating war between universes (the Unwinding) joins the time-traveling Watchmen and helps monitor the
truce boundaries in an Extremophile body, but she is forced to flee to
Earth’s past to escape an android assassin with a familiar face.
When a strange new universe bent on avenging the atrocities of the Unwinding awakens, the new family of Watchmen must forge a lasting peace–before history repeats itself.
Book 3: Lucanus: Prodigal Son
Part prequel, part sequel, the third book in the Unwinding series is here!
After years away testing wormhole space technology for the Masquat Empire, Calaneris’s unacknowledged son Lucanus returns victorious—but feeling unfairly exploited. The rebellious Luqas collects his impoverished mother and pet “Dog” and seeks a new home planet, inventing an advanced artificial intelligence to aid in the exploration.
They encounter alien survivors of a destructive cosmic event (The Unwinding) and bring them to safety on the newly discovered planet Fortuna. Arriving settlers include the genetically enhanced young albino woman, An-Bai, an assassin agent of the emperor, who falls in love with Luqas. Despite An-Bai’s warnings, the adventurous Luqas returns to the capital planet, where he discovers his father is plotting to destroy the time-traveling Watchmen civilization and unravel our universe. Disavowing the empire entirely, Luqas leaves his AI in charge of a space outpost and prepares for war.
The Watchmen ally with Luqas’s AI to cement a truce between universes, ending the Unwindings. Luqas starts a new family on Fortuna, but recalls he was happiest when he was wandering the galaxy, while his AI sidekick finds a new calling in helping the Watchmen forge a new future.
Available on Amazon.
Lucanus: Prodigal Son had a Top 10 finish in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels category of the Critters Readers’ Poll for 2022