ANTIGONE EFFECT is a series of standalone novels featuring strong women, futuristic technology, and a Gothic atmosphere of dread. ANTIGONE EFFECT explores the ethics of applied technological advances, with a focus on the social implications for women. Like true crime podcast, ANTIGONE EFFECT is linked by theme, not characters.
The ANTIGONE EFFECT series can be read in any order.
Behind the Series Name
Antigone is a tragedy by Greek playwright Sophocles. The eponymous heroine, snared between the opposing dictates of religion and politics, chooses to defy her father and the state to perform sacred rites. Her punishment is swift and brutal: Antigone is walled into a cave to starve to death.
The Antigone Effect series projects the Sophoclean dilemma of female versus the state into the near future. The heroines of the series are the philosophical descendants of Sophocles’ stubborn, fierce, and ultimately tragic Antigone. Two millennia later, her sci-fi daughters are caught in moral, ethical, and political snares she would find all too familiar.
Aulisyn: A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel
Aulisyn is a dual-timeline novel. It alternates between the Middle Ages and a near-future Earth where young women are raised in harsh, historically accurate conditions to augment virtual reality technology. Descend into mesmerizing psychological suspense with a heroine who is more than what she seems…
Lorikat: A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel
Lorikat uses first-person accounts and official documents to explore the human struggles behind the downfall of FIASCO.
Erzsebet Carmean 