A. C. Meehan
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2026
A. C. Meehan is the author of the science-fantasy series The New Foundation Project, including A Signal for Redemption, winner of the 2022 National Indie Excellence Award for Cross-Genre Fiction, The Third Age, an NIEA 2025 finalist for Science Fiction, and The Ruins of Certainty. Her work blends speculative concepts with character-driven storytelling, focusing on how people and societies respond when long-held assumptions begin to break apart.
She lives in Northeast Ohio, where she works in corporate communications, navigating the challenge of making meaning clear amid competing perspectives—a theme that carries into her fiction, where language, perception, and trust shape how characters interpret and influence the world around them. She also writes essays on language and the art of fiction.
A Signal for Redemption
A dying ark ship. A feudal world. A scout who must bring them together.
When a generation ship finally reaches its destination, its passengers expect to join a thriving, high-tech colony. Instead, they find a divided, feudal world with its own rules—and its own claims on the future.
Piers Haldon, one of the few people capable of channeling the psi energy the ship needs, is sent to the planet below to find others who share his gift. If he can unite them, they may be able to create the signal Redemption needs to survive. If he fails, the ship—and everyone on it—will be lost.
As Piers searches a world shaped by legend, history, and fear, he discovers that the truth of who he is may be more dangerous than he ever imagined.
The Third Age
He succeeded in his near-impossible mission. That was the easy part.
The story picks up immediately after A Signal for Redemption. With the ark ship finally on the ground, the challenges are only beginning. The Great Houses of Merra must negotiate a new political reality that includes the ship. The Starborn must redefine their future now that their prophecies have been fulfilled. And the settlers of Redemption must learn how to survive on a world without the technology they depend on.
Standing at the intersection of these worlds is Piers Haldon, whose gift of Empathy—and hard-won relationships—may be the only thing holding them together. As he wrestles with questions of loyalty, family, and belonging, a new crisis threatens everything they have built.
The Ruins of Certainty
The future has arrived—and certainty is easier to lose than reclaim.
The ark ship Redemption now stands openly on the soil of Merra, changing the balance of power across the Great Houses. Some see opportunity in forgotten knowledge and advanced technology; others fear the upheaval Redemption may bring. Old rivalries sharpen, alliances shift, and no one agrees on what the future should be. As Piers struggles to bridge two civilizations, the strain threatens to tear him apart. His abilities are changing, and the deeper his understanding of others becomes, the more dangerous his influence may be.
When all certainties vanish, who decides what comes next?