A Series of Standalone Novels
Antigone effect
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.
woman versus state
The Series Namesake
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.
Brave women transcend genre. Antigone Effect mixes the atmosphere of Gothic tropes with realistic science fiction. The result is the antithesis of cozy.
Themes in this series may not suitable for all audiences.
The Series
Antigone Effect is linked by concept/theme, not the chronology of a specific character or civilization. This is the same structure used by the shows Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone. Any episode is a complete story, and no matter what order you watch them in, the themes resonate.
Each novel in the Antigone Effect series is standalone. You do not need to read them in any particular order. There are minor references (very minor) from one book to another; for example, reference is made to a non-terrestrial colony, but you don't need to know anything about the colony to understand the meaning in context of the current book.
The publication order is Aulisyn, Lorikat, Xochi.