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The Era Before Time

Synopsis

Before Atlantis became a legend, it shared the ocean with powers it could neither conquer nor fully understand.

Nearly a million years before recorded history, Atlantis rises above the sea in magnificent rings of stone and crystal. Its ships cross distant horizons. Its engines draw upon the rhythms of the planet. Its people believe that anything can be mastered if it can first be measured.

But the ocean is not theirs alone.

Below the sunlit waters, the predatory Merrow rule ancient salt empires. Far beneath them, intelligences embedded in the planet’s crust maintain a balance that no surface civilization has the power to command.

As a boy, Budj Bim discovers a hidden underwater chamber where he encounters a young Merrow and a strange visitor from the abyss. For one extraordinary moment, three beings taught to fear one another find something their civilizations have never achieved: peace without domination.

Years later, Budj Bim becomes an archivist in a world moving toward war. Atlantis’s expanding technology disturbs the deep. Fleets vanish, the seafloor fractures, and every attempt to regain control carries consequences beyond the reach of its makers.

With his civilization facing catastrophe, the man entrusted to preserve its knowledge must confront an almost unthinkable possibility: saving his people may require surrendering everything that makes them Atlantis.

A sweeping speculative novel of lost civilizations, unlikely kinship, and the terrible choice between being remembered and allowing a future to exist.

Not yet published.