Para Imminence: Stories of the Future of Wraeththu

Wraeththu

by Storm Constantine (Contributor/Editor), Wendy Darling (Contributor/Editor)

The androgynous and mysterious Wraeththu have risen to replace humanity upon a ravaged world. Is it inevitable they will forget the mistakes of the past wrought by their human ancestors or will they truly evolve to become the guardian, sentient race this Earth deserves?

Based on the world created by Storm Constantine for her Wraeththu novels, the stories in this collection explore different, intriguing aspects of Wraeththu’s possible future. Whether that is leaving the earthly realm to explore the uncharted reaches of the multiverse via the Otherlanes, raising the ancient lost continents of humanity’s myths and legends, surfing the psychic equivalent of the Internet, coming to terms with their race’s human past, or simply revisiting earlier territory where pain and disappointment might still lurk, Para Imminence offers a vibrant and colourful compendium of visions of the future of harakind.

Para Imminence features an introduction by TV producer/writer Brad Carpenter, who is working on a film script based on the Wraeththu novels, and stories from eleven writers, some of whom are well known within Wraeththu fandom and/or have written Wraeththu Mythos novels published by Immanion Press.

Featuring stories by: Storm Constantine, Wendy Darling, Martina Bellovièová, Andy Bigwood, Victoria Copus, Suzanne Gabriel, Fiona Lane, Maria J Leel, Martina Luise Pachali, Daniela Ritter and E S Wynn.

372 pages, Paperback

First published October 19, 2012

About the author

Storm Constantine was a British science fiction and fantasy author, primarily known for her Wraeththu series.

Since the late 1980s she wrote more than 20 novels, plus several non-fiction books. She is featured in the Goth Bible and is often included in discussions of alternative sexuality and gender in science fiction and fantasy; many of her novels include same-sex relationships or hermaphrodites or other twists of gender. Magic, mysticism and ancient legends (like the Grigori) also figure strongly in her works.

In 2003 she launched Immanion Press, based out of Stafford, England. The publishing company publishes not only her own works but those of new writers, as well as well-known genre writers, mainly from the UK.

Reviews

[K.S. Trenten · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wraeththu continues long after Pellaz’s reign as Tigron to a far future when the dehara are laughed at and have to be discovered again. The dehara, magic, and science in the accomplishments of Wraeththu; reaching out to other times and places, whole worlds where new dehara wait for them. Alas, hatred and prejudice take on new forms to stunt and warp Wraeththu as they did humanity. New heroes, thinkers, and hara rise to challenge the distortion into something more promising with the help of somehar familiar. Pellaz becomes a myth for the credulous, mocked by the cynical whom must find the courage to challenge convention. Humanity becomes something rare and precious to be preserved as it vanishes. Some of the measures to keep humanity and its memory alive are surprising.

All of this awaits the reader in the stories in this book. If you loved the world of the Wraeththu, you’re in for a treat with this, as I was.