THE SERIES "MORNING STAR, SON OF DAWN" -

DREAMS OF THE SERAPHIM (2012)
THE THIRTEENTH FUNCTION (2015)
THE GREAT GOD CHANCE (2024)

A trilogy of fantastic fiction, set in a sort of 18th-century like Baroque-punk world. The first part, Serafers drömmar ("Dreams of the Seraphim") was published in 2012 and the second one, Den trettonde funktionen ("The Thirteenth Function") in 2015. The third and final part, "Den Store Guden Slump" ("The Great God Chance") has now been published (2024) together with the two others in an omnibus volume on Nirstedt/litteratur publishing.

All three books are also available individually as e-books.

A tale of archaengels, timelines, moral choices. And Seven Cycles.

Can destiny be changed? Has the future already happened? Are we all born with a purpose, and can the course of history, evolution and religion be manipulated and controlled?

Dreams of the Seraphim and The Thirteenth Function are tales in which an 18th century-like world meets war angels, philosophy and religion. It is a story about the workings of fate, about whether one can predict the future in order to change it, or if that only leads to one’s dark predictions coming true.
The books are set in a “baroque-punk” world, telling a tale of two angelic friends who become mortal enemies. It is a story of what it means to be a superpower in a world of perpetual war, of alchemy, astrology and genetic engineering. Of two angels with burning wings, élite soldiers and defenders of their homeland, finding out that they are, in fact, manufactured products of a doomed humanity trying to recreate their evolutionary future in the present.

The first book is centered on two Seraphim, General Kwanzo and Captain Ambrogael – one older and brooding, the other young and impetuous – who have defended their kingdom for years, never questioning its authority. When they start to investigate their background, their reasons for fighting and the purpose of their very existence, the fate of humanity itself is revealed to rest upon their shoulders – and their flaming wings.

The kingdom of Dômweld is a scientific and artistic utopia, with gables and cupolas, glittering streams and fountains, marvelous works of art and high technology – but also one that zealously controls the lives of its citizens through mechanical surveillance and a repressive secret police.

Kwanzo becomes suspicious when his king orders him and his best friend and captain to retrieve a very strange object as part of their military assignments: a living fetus, encased in a glass container. As the general starts wondering why he was given such a repulsive task, he and Ambrogael, as well as their closest common friend (she is the librarian at the palace library) start an investigation of their own.

These three characters (as well as the one of the leading astrologers of the kingdom, a woman with whom the general shares a sadomasochistic love relationship) will be put face to face with their own morals, with their feelings of loyalty and love, and with the great, unfathomable machinery of the universe. The great world machine is ticking. The Aeon of humanity may be at an end. The metaphysical, astrological clock that rules the word is moving forward towards an inevitable cataclysm – but can that destiny be stopped, or changed? Or is humanity just creating the horror it was trying to avoid?

Possible futures, two-way-mirrors, battle angels, a king at the center of the earth, an archangel crucified in a mechanical world – these are all ingredients of Morning Star, Son of Dawn.

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AAAAAAND:

POETEN OCH CIRKELMAKAREN
("THE POET AND THE CIRCLE DRAWER", 2008)

Written in collaboration with Örjan Wikander

A humorous and adventurous story about Plotius Tucca, one of the editors of Virgil's Aeneid, and a disciple of Choni the Circle Drawer, a thaumaturge known from the Mishnah, set in 37 BCE, as part of the struggle between the underlings of Caesar Augustus and Mark Antony – both in Italy and Jerusalem. One of the heroes gets embroiled in an (historically attested) murder plot against Herod the Great, and the other travels down a river together with the poet Horace – until they both become agents in Octavia's secret service.