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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-in-progress is based on the gone-but-not-forgotten TV series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. It picks up at the end of Season 2 and goes in a whole new direction; so it should be especially interesting to anyone who, like me, thought Season 3 was passable and after that everything went to hell in a handbasket. 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.

Anasazi Anthem will contain 22 chapters (plus prologue and epilogue) in emulation of Andromeda's 22-episode seasons, which may cause an episodic and scriptive flavor that doesn't usually exist in material not written for the screen. You'll find some interesting retcon, though. The novel also assumes that the reader is familiar with Andromeda and does not need to be given Seasons 1 and 2 backstory. Unfortunately, the series' own website has apparently expired. However, for reminders of what went on in Andromeda itself, take a look at the Andromeda (TV) Wikipedia article and All Systems University and more than one online fan wiki that have sprung up. Plus, you can catch the whole magilla on streaming services.

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:

Disclaimer

Title Page and Prologue

Chapter 1: In the Beginning

Chapter 2: Home Is the Hunter

Chapter 3: With This Ring

Chapter 4: Perchance To Dream

Chapter 5: Render unto Caesar

Chapter 6: If It Be Hidden

Chapter 7: And the Pride Shall Stand

Chapter 8: In My Father's House

Chapter 9: A Game of Bear and Cat

COMING SOON (expect in April  2025):
Chapter 10: Sealed with a Kiss
Chapter 11: Trap Play
Chapter 13: Honor Bound
Chapter 14: Family Trees

I look forward to your help in enhancing Anasazi Anthem (and especially in catching canonical errors) via your feedback. The first section was initially offered on the 10th anniversary of Andromeda's series premiere on October 2, 2000. Hopefully, the novel will be completed by the 10th anniversary of the series finale on May 13, 2005 (but no guarantees). [Well, that certainly didn't happen. Maybe by the 20th anniversary of the finale, or at least the end of 2025.] Chapters will become available as they are written. Each time a new chapter is added, the previous chapters are reloaded, as they may contain changes that you or I noticed were needed.

Still finding the writing going slower than hoped...although pretty fast in 2025, as the list of chapters to be posted in the pending update will attest. Still plugging away at doing research, maintaining continuity, and IDing and emplacing retcon with the show and my previous chapters. Still amazed at how this story sometimes insists on going somewhere I never expected. Hope you're finding some amazing nuggets in it, too. Please keep my efforts on this work -- which, as noted below, one of my loved ones thought so important -- in your positive thoughts and prayers. Thanx. And look for the continuations of this labor of love in coming months. Inshallah.

P.S.  For those who ask why in heaven's name I'd spend enormous amounts of time (hence the 105,000-plus words already posted, the 45,000+ awaiting post, and the 20,000+ outlined beyond that) 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.

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