Welcome

Season One of No Gods or Kings launched in May 2017 with the publication of Episode One – Arrivals. Regular episodic updates were planned on a roughly bi-annual schedule, but life and Covid derailed those plans pretty spectacularly. Work is finally getting back on track, with Episode Five intended to come out in 2023 and Season One anticipated to end at Episode Nine.

No Gods or Kings is an ongoing series of nine prose novels about superheroes. More accurately, superhumans.

Set in the future, it begins with a series of interviews following one person as they begin to collate an oral history about the world around them. How superhumans first arose, the lives they led, the changes they caused…and how they somehow destroyed and rebuilt the world into the paradise it is now.

But as they meet the gods and kings that rule the world, the realisation dawns that paradise… is not all it seems.

 Prologue 0

'Joseph...aren't you afraid of Hierarchy?'

'No. I'm afraid of you'

‘Time to wake up.’

[Wha…where am I?]

‘That’s your first question? Interesting.’

[Who…are you? Who am I?]

‘Ah, more predictable. Good. That’ll be important. We don’t want you going off-script, not at all. Now, can you hear me clearly? Can you see me?’

[I…Yes]

‘Excellent. Listen closely. You are to be called the Recorder. Your name and purpose is the same. You are to create a record, a permanent history which you shall glean from careful interviews you shall carry out in the days and weeks to come.’

[History? A history of what?]

‘A history of the events that changed the world into what it is today. A history of the dawn of the superhuman in the early years of the twenty-first century. We expect you to capture the confusion, the fear and the awe that was present at the dawn of a new era in humanity’s history.’

[To what purpose?]

‘Your role is not to question. It is to serve. To create the most exacting, the most nuanced chronicle of how the world became as it is today.’

[And what is the world like today?]

‘…the world that exists now is a beautiful place. A terrible place. It is a testament to the choices we have made to protect it. The choices that we had to make, and the changes that we had to impose. It is important you remember that. Not that we all make choices but that - in the end - our choices make us.’

To be continued in ‘No Gods or Kings - Episode One - Arrivals’