It is done! The last volume of the Apotheosis Trilogy, Messiah, has just wrapped up at 103K words. (About 3000 words over my mark, which means the final revised draft is going to be even longer.) We have officially capped off the series I began back in 1993 with Forests of the Night. A series that has run to ten novels now, three trilogies plus a single one off novel, that cover a time-span of half a millennium, and range from near-future noir thriller to apocalyptic transhumanist space opera.
I’ve also just written what I think may be the most over-the-top climax of anything I’ve ever done. This in a series where I’ve already eaten a star, blown up a network of 100 wormholes, and assimilated the Earth. I was sort of running out of ways to top myself. I got everything here, the villain eating the Vatican, space battles, transhumanisim, civil war, all hell breaking loose on a space station, eschatology, and the second most transgressive sex scene in the series.
