The Antisense Universe

The Antisense Universe

  • Ashqabad: City of Stories

    Book Zero of the Antisense Universe.

    https://books2read.com/u/3R70gp

    That’s the link to buy this book. Price one dollar, ebook only. Feel free to POD it if you wish.

    Book cover of Ashqabad: City of Stories, showing a hand drawn illustration of a mountain with a river running down it, and a city on its slopes.
    Cover of Ashqabad: City of Stories. All artwork by me.

    This book isn’t quite the plan of the universe, but it does tell you some important things about the world and the way it works. Ashqabad is the place where all stories meet. The fourteen stories in this book are linked in many subtle ways, but you can just enjoy them for themselves. I wouldn’t say they are all ‘love’ stories in the traditional sense, but they are all about love.

    They are keys to the city because in each of them, one of the characters understands something that allows them to solve a soul-problem or progress to the next level of their journey. The keys free you. They give you a way to come to the city whenever you want.

    So far this book has sold about 19 copies and sales are stagnant. This does not bother me, because it kinda contains spoilers for the series, so it’s fine if people don’t read it now. I suspect they will come to it once they have read some of the more contemporary, realistic books in the series. It is definitely a book for fans of the AU rather than newbies.

    The next title, Signal Red: Remounted, is a very different book.

  • The Plan of the Universe

    Hi, I’m Rimi B. Chatterjee, an author of science fiction and fantasy based in India. I write novels, screenplays, comics and shorts.

    I’m creating the Antisense Universe, a storyworld focused on climate action and civilisational redesign. The story arc runs from 2011 to the twenty-seventh century. The core of the story is Antisense, a way of living that replaces law and money with love and happiness using the karma ethical system. Yup, it’s luxury gay space anarchosyndicalism with added sauce.

    Ten books are planned, and I have to write and publish them in the next five years. I’m a cancer survivor and heart patient with a terminal condition. I will not live to see another general election in my country, where many of my friends and colleagues are prisoners of conscience under a fascist regime.

    I’m also aro ace, POC and genderfluid. I’m a Utopia awardee and a finalist at the Hollywood Climate Pitchfest.

    After many difficulties I’ve finally got this site back up again. I’ve lost all my old data, so I will be rebuilding from scratch.

    It’ll take a while, but I should soon have all my content back up again.

    In the meantime, here’s the cover of Ashqabad: City of Stories, Book Zero of the Antisense Universe, due out as ebook only on all platforms on 30 November 2024.

    Book cover of Ashqabad: City of Stories, showing a hand drawn illustration of a mountain with a river running down it, and a city on its slopes.
    Cover of my forthcoming book Ashqabad: City of Stories.