My name is Cyrus Janiak, and I've spent the past year writing a new fantasy story in the haremlit genre. The title is The Artificer and the Genie, and it's a love letter to sexy pulp adventures like Flash Gordon, or the John Carter of Mars series, and to Dungeons and Dragons, particularly Spelljammer.
The adventure takes place in a world called Shattered Zemyah, a world that has essentially exploded in an ancient cataclysm, due to a war between the pantheon of Old Gods and the Reaver Gods--a group of powerful, demonic entities that invaded from outside the universe. The war was so destructive that it tore most of the original planets of this world into pieces, known as shardworlds, and killed almost all of the deities of both pantheons.
The Old Gods achieved a narrow victory, and the surviving members of their pantheon used the last remnants of their power to stabilize the shardworlds and bind them together with skeins of magic called astral currents--glittering rivers of magic winding through space. Special astral ships were created to sail through this network of cosmic rivers, and it's here where our story begins.
Our hero, Zain Shamar, is a humble student in the art of artificing--of crafting and using magical items. He accepted a job working on the Crystania, a luxury astral liner ferrying the most wealthy and elite passengers in Shattered Zemyah, in exchange for eventual passage to Xembala, where he might attend the Prima Arcanis, the most prestigious school of magic in the known universe.
Except the greedy owners of the Crystania, the Cydonia Trading Company, lied to him. Once aboard, his passport and all of his possessions were seized as "collateral," and he was forced to work subsistence wages for the company while being charged exorbitant interest and held as a virtual prisoner on the ship, along with all the other Indentured--other workers who'd been suckered just like he had.
Of course, our hero didn't let that get him down for too long. He has a plan to escape, a plan that will bring him across deadly space pirates, sexy young heiresses, extra-cosmic monsters, lusty Amazon warriors, and one very special magical item, a powerful artifact binding an equally powerful genie. Their partnership will set off a series of adventures that will become legend throughout all of Shattered Zemyah.
The book is up for pre-order here.
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