Passingsands

Rules. Discipline. Tuku Genja lived by those two principles until a disaster wiped out her species in the Great Swirl Galaxy. A mercenary now, Genja wanders across the quadrant with her droid-swarm companion, living on the edge. The appearances of Zhiva, a space pirate, and Trey, a kidnapped human from another galaxy, who thought reality was an online virtual game, flipped her life upside down. Swept up in the storm of galactic political intrigues, criminal syndicates, bounty hunters after their prison-break stunt, the fugitives and their allies struggle to survive in the hostile quadrant. By accident, the group discovered the secrets behind the origin of a recurrent cosmic extinction-level disaster and a way to stop it. Can this group of anti-heroes save the galactic quadrant? Or will they do a runner?

Alex Fu-Tales, a nerd, never believed in the supernatural, only science. A prolonged death at a young age of 25 led him to the hidden dimension, where the supernatural beings live in parallel to the human world. Stuck with a mentor who is the forgotten Chinese serpent god, Kanghui, Alex falls into the dangerous web of afterlife politics, and the unsavory company of other destructive gods. His first allies are a shape-shifting spider and a strange group of Japanese serpent ‘gods’ obsessed with Kentucky fried chicken. With crappy fighting skills, Alex is forced to rely on his wits and knowledge to survive the afterlife. Will his luck in the afterlife worsen or turn for the better? Are some of the notorious gods villains or just misunderstood? Is there a higher purpose in his continued existence? Graphics (book cover): shutterstock.com. Font from canva.com. Modifications: own.