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Anasazi Anthem
by
Lucki Melander Wilder

I have to admit to being so thrilled that you are still working on Anasazi Anthem!  -- Tamara Bond, New York
It kept me wanting to read; I think you have a winner here.  -- Diane Neill, Ontario

This free online novel - the completed manuscript of which was posted on October 20, 2025 - is based on the gone-but-still-not-forgotten TV series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. It picks up at the end of S2 and goes in a whole new direction; so it should be especially interesting to anyone who, like me, thought S3 passable but after that everything went to hell in a handbasket. This work does not riff off the "Coda" by Robert Hewitt Wolfe.

Anasazi Anthem has 22 chapters - plus prologue and epilogue - emulating Andromeda's 22-ep seasons. That may cause a scriptive, episodic flavor seldom found in material not written for the screen. But you'll find some cool retcon. And you get extra points for IDing "winking references". The novel also assumes you're familiar with Andromeda and don't need to be given a detailed S1 and S2 backstory. Sadly, the series' website apparently expired. Still, for reminders of what went on, look at Andromeda (TV) Wikipedia and/or online fan wikis, such as the one at Fandom.com, that have sprung up (but do watch out for some inconsistencues in all of 'em). Plus, you can catch the whole magilla on the stream, or buy the CDs.

I want to sincerely thank my fellow FourFen - Tamara Bond  (Queen Tiye), Catherine Hill (Caitronia), and Lillian Wolf (Una Salus Lillius) - for their energetic encouragement, scintillating storystorming, and constructive criticism. I also look forward to your help in enhancing Anasazi Anthem (and especially in catching canonical errors) via your feedback.

BTW, the first section was initially offered on the 10th anniversary of Andromeda's October 2, 2000 series premiere. I'd hoped the novel would be completed by the 10th anniversary of the series May 13, 2005 finale, but that didn't happen. So, maybe its 20th anniversary? Well, I didn't make May 13, but I did make 2025 (less than 6 months late).

P.S.  For those who ask why in heaven's name I'd spend enormous amounts of time (hence the 234K words posted) on something that won't earn me a dime, I can only invoke the hoary old phrase "labor of love". Oh, plus which, when my late spiritual mother Rezvanieh Collestan - an equally avid Andromeda fan, senior citizen or no - heard what I was aiming at in tying the Anasazi story to Progressive Revelation, she exclaimed, "Lucki joon, you have GOT to write that!" Yes, Mom. Did it! Thanx for keeping me going.

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