Alien Power Struggle
It starts with two teenagers discovering they inherited powers from opposite sides of an alien conflict. That remains the simplest thing about it.
From there the story detonates outward into Hell, gods, demons, fae courts, cosmic monsters, resurrected dinosaurs, conspiracies, pirates, vampires, time travel, impossible bureaucracies, historical figures and an increasingly large group of people who respond to impossible situations by making them substantially worse.
The premise survives. It just stops being in charge.
What begins as a teenage fight between two half-alien lovers becomes something much, much bigger.
After a violent clash reveals that the two lovers may be connected to opposite sides of an ancient alien conflict, everything starts to unravel. A blood mage intervenes. Hell gets involved.
And that’s only the beginning.
Soon there's bargaining with devils, stealing impossible motorcycles, surviving infernal family drama, and stumbling into a world populated by demons, fae, gods, monsters, dinosaurs, historical figures, cosmic horrors, and people who are somehow even more dangerous than any of them.
Told through the journals and diaries of an ever-expanding cast, Alien Power Struggle is a sprawling, absurd, profane, unexpectedly heartfelt descent into chaos where every bad decision leads to a larger one, enemies rarely stay enemies, and reality itself eventually stops being a meaningful limitation.
The original alien power struggle is still in there somewhere.
It just stopped being the biggest problem.
A rotating-POV epic disguised as a stack of journals.
The entire story is told through diary entries, journals, logs and other first-person records. The narrator keeps changing, so the same universe is filtered through wildly different personalities.
Science fiction, technically
Alien ancestry and superhuman powers start the story, but science fiction quickly shares the stage with fantasy, mythology, horror, history and whatever category resurrected T. rex skeleton politics belongs to.
Absurdist on purpose
The book takes consequences seriously while refusing to take the universe seriously. Cosmic horror can coexist with Hooters, infernal bureaucracy, drunk gods and a lawn mower that has no business being that fast.
An ensemble that keeps growing
Googlia opens the door, but she does not own the book. Helsik, Cirrus, Fina, Mephistopheles, Thessalia, Norris Chuck, Chronos, Betty, Cora and many others become protagonists in their own right.
Characters drive the chaos
The plot expands because personalities collide. Pride, loyalty, jealousy, stupidity, affection, revenge and curiosity produce most of the disasters long before any cosmic force gets involved.
Real places, impossible events
Reno, San Francisco, Oakland, Lake Tahoe, Louisiana, Amsterdam and other recognizable places sit beside Hell, the Abyss, fae realms, Tortuga, Jotunheim and dimensions that obey their own rules.
Still growing
The current manuscript is not presented as a finished, polished novel with a final ending. It is a large ongoing story whose latest entries are still opening new doors.
Without attempting to explain all of it.
There are too many turns to reduce this to a conventional plot synopsis, but the book moves through several broad phases.
Googlia and LeShawn’s rivalry exposes the supernatural world, Helsik kills Googlia, and her attempt to escape damnation introduces the infernal cast.
Raphael, Inferna, Lilith, Levistus, Glasya, Mephistopheles and the Devil turn the afterlife into a combination royal court, dysfunctional family and weapons-grade social disaster.
Threats stop staying dead. Reincarnations, transformations and increasingly dangerous variations turn personal grudges into battles that threaten Hell, Earth and reality itself.
Fae politics, Gaia, resurrected dinosaurs, Chad, Betty’s empire and other Earthbound catastrophes push the story from supernatural crisis into full absurdist world history.
Chronos and the expanding cast begin moving through eras and realities, crossing paths with pirates, vampires, historical figures, gods, angels and places that should never connect.
By the later entries, the central pleasure is watching this huge collection of incompatible personalities form friendships, vendettas and alliances while each new problem makes the universe larger.
Enter at your own risk.
The reading page contains the complete current draft as supplied, in its original entry order and wording. It is very long. This is not a warning so much as a statement of fact.
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