Gunmetal Olympus / Hades Calculus

Decadent cyberpunk cities. Greek mythology and giant mechs. Hades and Persephone as never seen before.

For generations, colossi have besieged the gates of Elysium. Each day, the city’s fall looms closer.

As one of Elysium’s rulers, Hades has long sought to break this stalemate. In Persephone, a cyborg tailor-made to kill, she finds the key to victory and the perfect pilot for her war machine. She will acquire Persephone at any cost.

Born to wield violence and with the bloodthirst to match, Persephone chafes under her mother’s control. At the first opportunity, she brutally breaks free and seeks sanctuary with the unlikeliest of patrons: the Lord of the Machine Dead, the Master of the Underworld.

All Hades and Persephone have to do to realize their goals is to navigate the city’s treacherous politics—and survive the coming war.

Shortlisted for the Transfeminine Review award for Best Transfeminine Fiction of 2024.

Reviews

The Hades Calculus is invigorating, cathartic, and joyous, and it handles its potentially overpowering themes and subjects with a grace and craftsmanship that makes it something truly special – Ara Reviews

A primal, feral hunger runs through the entire ordeal, animating the pages with a verve that brings to mind Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body. The love between lesbians is ferocious, untamed, and much more than skin-deep, penetrating to the entrails, gripping with a madness that is only comprehensible to those who have wanted to devour as they are devoured. Hades Calculus is a truly lesbian book in text and theme, in every plot beat and minor motif, and is all the more brilliant for it – Talia Bhatt

Readers looking for an imaginative, sexy, action-packed saga blending mythology and cyberpunk will be utterly transfixed by this dazzling and subversive work. While it clearly sets up future installments, The Hades Calculus stands powerfully on its own as a singular piece of speculative fiction magic – Hidden Sci-fi

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The Persephone Effect

Zeus has been struck down, and Elysium stands on the cusp of destruction.

In this tumult, Persephone is wounded but not yet defeated. A presence grows within her that should not be. She has a chance at the goal she’s strived toward all along: godhood itself. But just as likely, she could lose everything. Now she must adapt—or drown.

Hades, head heavy with her sister’s crown, labors to bring the gods to order and keep them united as a killer haunts the city, capable of dispatching mortals and gods alike. Twin gods Artemis and Apollo grow increasingly erratic, hinting at a scheme that may no longer align them with the survival of Elysium.

In the battle for Olympus, the gods must unearth the secrets left behind by their makers—who may not, after all, be entirely gone…

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1. The Hades Calculus
2. Memory of Olympus (short story collection)
3. The Persephone Effect
4. Weapons of Olympus (short story collection)
5. Last book to conclude the “Persephone trilogy”
6. Possibly one more short story collection to wrap up the fates of some of the secondary characters, among other subjects
7. Standalones of varying lengths and interconnections

A lot of readers have asked how many books will be in the series, and the current answer is that it’s very flexible. The “Persephone trilogy” is set in stone: three full-length novels, plus three collections with side stories, taking place at various periods in the timeline and usually about characters with fewer/smaller roles in the novels.

The standalones will be a bit of a wild west in that we don’t have anything planned yet other than that they’ll take place quite a while after Persephone’s story is wrapped up. We imagine them as interconnected in that, while each book will be able to stand alone, characters in one may appear in others with varying levels of significance.