T. Newyear
NewyearMedia.com
2024
For T. Newyear, the past and the future are two pages in the same book. A native of the Midwestern US, Newyear grew up in small towns and fading cities, inspired by nature and culture, tradition and radicalism in equal measure. She lived extensively in Russia, traveled alone across Siberia and Mongolia, and learned how the other side of the world related to her home turf. With a doctorate in history and area studies, she has a profound interest in exploring the details and lived experiences of the past, and imagining how those lost moments speak to our collective future.
She is the author of The Tomb and the Stone, a historical fantasy about the search for the tomb of Genghis Khan, and Starfall, a sci-fi-meets-historical-fiction novel centered on the utopian town of New Harmony, IN. She has written numerous articles about music tech and Siberian history, as well as translated several scholarly books into English.
Starfall: Book 1
There are pools in the forests all fear and avoid. There, something strange is happening.
This curious fact lies at the heart of Starfall, a sweeping tale told in the same place, the utopian town of New Harmony, Indiana, but in two eras–1820s America and the not-so-distant, post-climate change future. In each era, a woman stumbles into a community built to change humanity’s course, founded by eccentrics and scientists, and begins to learn the secrets of what is unfolding in those mysterious pools in the woods.
Exploring American history and our coming adaptation to climate change, folklore and technology, Starfall incorporates elements of romance and sci-fi, horror and natural beauty. It leads readers through a forgotten but vital moment in American progressive experimentation and suggests what might remain valuable to us, as we face one of humanity’s greatest challenges.
Starfall Book 2
Xenia and her AI companion Alt settle into life in Harmonie as she attempts to recover from her journey through the wilds, only to discover that a strange mystery lurks beneath the charming town's utopian exterior. That mystery is guarded by a wily, visionary leader and an infamously scandal-prone artist, who befriend and shock the usually level-headed Xenia. Xenia's ongoing exploration is mirrored by the journey of a 19th-century former resident of the town, reformer Camilla Wright, who is setting off with her famous author sister to establish a utopian community of their own, in hopes of ending slavery.
Both women's worlds are turned upside down by love and desire, and both will have to reckon with what they have seen and felt in the woods outside of Harmonie and all its heart-wrenching twists and turns.
Hyperadamantine
Daughter of a much declined, highly affectionate St. Petersburg family, Irina Morozova senses death before it comes. Her arcane powers can summon the dead into the world of the living.
Yet that is the least of the pretty aristocrat's worries. When her brothers rise up against the tsar, Irina and her sisters lose their good names, their prospects for marriage, and their limited means. Irina's brothers are sent to Siberia, and Irina resolves to stage her own rebellion, diving into the scandalous margins of St. Petersburg Society, until her abilities come to the attention of the conservative but brilliant Prince Pavel Pozharsky, close confidant of the Emperor. The prince's interest leads to an unexpected proposal that enmeshes Irina in terrifying intrigues and pushes her power to its limits.