AQ Saga

Author: Ben Roylance

Publisher: H*d*ng Press (2023)

AQ Saga is a narrative talisman against pain channeled from a future or fictive incarnation of its author. Nautically set, it digests and redirects an armada of points of reference salted in new identity: cybernetics, Philip Jose Farmer’s fictions, the Shaver Mystery, neurology, a pair of early 20th century composers, CIA mind control via cultural programming, sea monsters, boatbuilding and sailing, and the so-called lunar sprite. 

It can be read as a comic-tragic-epic poem, a coded fanfictional anime paranoiopera, or a hypersigil for the cure of a disorder of the trigeminal autonomic cephalgia type.