The Paradisi Chronicles Science Fiction Series
One of my favorite forms of recreational reading has always been science fiction––particularly books by those authors like William Gibson, Anne McCaffrey, C. J. Cherryh, and Ursula Le Guin who excel at world building––a process that is very similar to what I do in rebuilding the world of Victorian San Francisco. As a result, in the fall of 2015, I was excited to join a group of authors who were creating an innovative science fiction series that we called the Paradisi Chronicles.
We worked for nearly a year to create a world called New Eden located in the fictional Paradisi System of the Andromeda Galaxy. We shared ideas, hammered out a backstory, drew maps, adapted technology, designed cities, and invented new species. Then we wrote stories about the people and places of this new world we’d created. We wrote in different styles, in different genres, and in different forms, and we had so much fun we have opened up this world to any other author who would like to write their own stories and add to the Paradisi Chronicles canon. More information about this open source science fiction series in general (whether you are a reader or an author who might want to write in this world) can be found HERE on the official Paradisi Chronicles website.
Within the Paradisi Chronicles series I have so far published the Caelestis Series (Between Mountain and Sea, Under Two Moons, Ddaera’s Touch, and Tides of Acerba) and I am currently working on the fifth and final novel in the series, In Ddaera’s Embrace.
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Between Mountain and Sea
Caelestis Series (Book 1)
Mei Lin Yu should have been looking forward to the next stage in her life. As a descendant of one of the Founding Families who led the exodus from a dying Earth and now rule New Eden, Mei’s choices are endless. But she has never felt part of the Yu Family or the world of technological marvels and genetic perfection the Founders created.
All that will change the summer she spends at Mynyddamore, the home her ancestor Mabel Yu built in western Caelestis. Here, living among the Ddaerans, the original inhabitants of New Eden, Mei will discover secrets about Mabel Yu that her family want to keep buried and a truth about herself that will forever change her own destiny.
This is the first book in my Caelestis Series trilogy.
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Under Two Moons
Caelestis Series (Book 2)
Mei Lin Yu, a shy studious young woman from a Founding Family, and Silence, a fierce snowcat running with outlaws, shouldn’t have anything in common. But on New Eden, a world where the native Ddaerans have psychic abilities, a world ruled by the Founders who fled a dying Earth…anything is possible.
When Mei Lin is forced out of the comfortable refuge of Mynyddamore and confronted with a secret from the past that is very much alive, will she be able to save herself and Silence to gain the trust of a man who has no reason to trust anyone from a Founding Family?
This is the second book in the Caelestis Series Trilogy.
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Through Ddaera’s Touch
Caelestis Series (Book 3)
Ddaera, the planet the Founders from Earth call New Eden, changes all she touches, including Mei Lin, the studious daughter of a Founding Family, Silence, a sentient snow cat, and Jaxon, a man displaced by space and time. Can these three find common ground in order to save Ddaera and the people they have sworn to protect?
Through Ddaera’s Touch, the third book in USA Today bestselling author Locke’s Caelestis Series, is an exciting action-adventure novel that tells the story of the emergence of a Resistance Movement that begins to unite disaffected New Eden citizens, the native Ddaerans, and the Reachers, new arrivals from Earth, against the Founding Families of New Eden.
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Tides of Acerba
Caelestis Series (Book 4)
Two moons, too many demands, too little time. In this action-adventure, science fiction novel, Mei Lin Yu, the future Promise Keeper, is thrust into a position of power and responsibility she never wanted as she struggles to determine who she can trust. Is it Jaxon, a man with his own responsibilities and trust issues, Dr. Eleanor, a scientist in the ruthless pursuit of knowledge, grandaunt Anne, the most powerful woman in Caelestis, or Daniella, a young widow with a surprising secret?
As Mei Lin faces one crisis after another, she will finally discover that the person she needs to learn to trust, is herself.
Tides of Acerba, the fourth book in Louisa Locke’s Caelestis series, comes right after Through Ddaera’s Touch, and is part of the Paradisi Chronicles, an open-source, multi-author science fiction universe.
Now available as an ebook and in print!
Where the Glassflowers Grow
Caelestis Series (Book 5)
Mabel Yu, one of the Founders of New Eden, had a dream. She wanted to turn the promises of the Paradisi Project into a reality in the western province of Caelestis. To that end, she built Mynyddamore as a place of refuge for the native Ddaerans who lived between the Mynyddeira Mountains and the Sapphire Sea. Generations later, her descendent Mei Lin Yu is working to bring the promises of that dream to even more people, despite the forces within her own family who are doing everything in their power to oppose her.
Where the Glassflowers Grow, is part of the Paradisi Chronicles, an open-source, multi-author science fiction series, and in this fifth and final book of the Caelestis series, Mei Lin Yu and Jaxon McCaffrey race against time to save the prisoners in the maximum-security prison of Atra. In the process, they discover that whether a Founder, an average New Eden citizen, a Reacher, or a native Ddaeran, they all share a common humanity, and all have been transformed by the planet Ddaera herself.
Where the Glassflowers Grow is now available.
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Aelwyd: Home
In the late 21st century, ten Founding Families fulfilled a nearly century-long plan to escape the dying Earth and travel to the Andromeda galaxy to establish a new society on the planet they named New Eden. One of those first settlers, Kammie Gunther, is finding it particularly hard to adapt. Born on a space station, having never before breathed fresh air, seen a horizon, or felt wind and rain on her face, Kammie finds everything unsettling. It doesn’t help that when she awoke from cryostasis she discovered her mother had remarried and she now has a younger step-brother. As she faces a new life, on a new world, with a new family, Kammie wonders if she will ever find a place in the universe that feels like home.
Aelwyd, a short story, is a work in the open-source, multi-author Paradisi Chronicles and is a good introduction to Louisa Locke’s Caelestis trilogy (Between Mountain and Sea, Under Two Moons, Through Ddaera’s Touch.)
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Caelestis Series: Books 1-3 Plus Aelwyd: Home
Caelestis Series Boxed Set
Mabel Yu is one of the ten Founding Families of the Paradisi Project who left a dying Earth to settle New Eden. Jaxon is Mabel’s friend and a Reacher, the group of men and women who were responsible for the success of the Paradisi Project.
Mei Lin Yu is Mabel’s descendent who discovers a secret about her family and the native Ddaerans that will forever change her destiny. Silence is a sentient snowcat who bridges the divisions between Founders, Ddaerans, and Reachers.
These individuals will shape the future of humanity as it struggles to escape the failures that destroyed Earth and build a new paradise in a far-away galaxy.
This set includes:
Book 1: Between Mountain and Sea
Book 2: Under Two Moons
Book 3: Through Ddaera’s Touch
Plus a short story: Aelwyd: Home
The Stars are Red Tonight
Canistro Series (Book 1)
The year is 2092 and Earth is slowly dying, but Trevor and Saya are holding their own. They have steady work in Seattle and unlike ninety-nine percent of the planet’s residents, they aren’t starving, their city isn’t underwater, threatened by fire, ravaged by disease, or under military rule. Their jobs are boring but at least they are safe. That is until an encrypted flash drive falls into their hands. Suddenly their lives are upended and nothing will ever be the same again.
The Stars are Red Tonight is part of the Paradisi Chronicles series, a science fiction adventure through time, space and generations, brought to life through the creativity of multiple authors. In this romantic suspense novella, Rey Wright and Louisa Locke introduce the Kuttners, one of the ten founding families who escape a dying Earth to colonize New Eden, a planet a galaxy away.
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Chronicle Worlds
Future Chronicles (Book 14)
In the last decades of the twenty-first century, ten families seeking to escape a devastated Earth focus on constructing spaceships to colonize the world they call New Eden, in the Paradisi System. But the world they claim for their own is already inhabited, and the Ddaerans, although human in appearance, possess abilities that the Founders and their descendants do not…
In this latest title in the acclaimed ‘Future Chronicles’ series of speculative fiction anthologies, twelve authors take us on that incredible journey with adventurers, scientists and colonists, as they push the boundaries against the unknown, against alien civilization, and themselves.
Discover Chronicle Worlds. Discover Paradisi.
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