Braiding the Eternal Knot

The Glorious Melancholy of Urgency (Air & Nothingness Press, April 2026), pp. 23-35
Ed. Todd Sanders
Book cover: The Glorious Melancholy of Urgency

Even within humanity’s great history of military bootstrapping—seeking conquest beyond measure, turning backwaters into empires—Gamma-Zandra of Nassatron was a force unmatched. She liberated the mechafauna of Regalon V. She shattered the armies of the Starbright Hegemony. Yet even she was but a twinkle in the eye of courting galaxies: unfathomably vast lovers whose glorious, melancholic urgency would in time give way to a progeny no less restive or headstrong than Gamma-Zandra’s own…

Friendly robot Grandma with owl helmet and flight goggles. Parachuting rhino