Maureen B. Roberts launches cosmic science fantasy epic and 2027 companion book

Maureen B. Roberts has published An Era in Anddemar, a science fantasy novel that blends myth, romance, astronomy and spiritual vision into a galaxy-wide story. A shorter companion work, Soul Among the Stars, is scheduled for 2027 from Collective Ink Books.

Why it matters: - An Era in Anddemar pushes past standard genre lines and offers an alternate model for speculative fiction built around relationship, harmony and shared responsibility. - The novel argues that beauty, empathy and imagination are central to how a society or cosmos can be understood. - The companion project, Soul Among the Stars, extends that worldview into a shorter devotional form due in 2027.

What happened: - Maureen B. Roberts has published An Era in Anddemar through her own imprint, Vandrassian Press. - The book is described as a science fantasy epic that combines science fiction, fantasy, romance, astronomy, spiritual vision, shamanism and a Grail quest. - A second book, Soul Among the Stars, is scheduled for publication in 2027 by Collective Ink Books in London. - Roberts is also introducing the companion work as a set of “Messages” from the “Ancient Starseeders,” conveyed through her as an Oracle.

The details: - Blue Reviews gave An Era in Anddemar a 5-star editorial review and said the boundaries between body, mind, dream, matter and cosmos become permeable in the novel. - The review also described the book as “an expansive, unconventional, deeply imaginative work of mythopoeic fiction.” - Literary Titan editor in chief Thomas Anderson wrote that the novel “turns an entire galaxy into a love song for the wild, radiant soul of life.” - The story avoids a traditional dark-versus-light struggle. - The main threat is a “Greyness” portrayed as conformity, monotony and a seeping drain on vitality. - Resistance comes from a colorful alliance that includes an exiled Shapemage, wormholes that channel music, shamans, knights, the Grail and a stranded group of Earth scientists. - English Romantic poet John Keats appears in the novel as a young knight. - Keats’s poetry is used to repel the invading Greyness. - The book unfolds at a contemplative pace and focuses on relationships, journeys, conversations and detailed settings. - The world of Anddemar replaces top-down power with a horizontal communal network of equals. - In that system, plants, stars, glaciers and crystals are treated as part of the same value structure as people. - Godlike Guardian Powers are no more important than farmers, merchants and midwives. - Greater power comes with greater responsibility to protect the galactic community. - Soul Among the Stars includes a foreword by Dutch theoretical physicist Dr Herbert van Erkelens. - The companion book takes on dark energy, dark matter, the nature of light and the fifth dimension. - The work presents a paradigm based on empathy, unity and relatedness rather than impersonal objectivity and compartmentalized knowledge. - Roberts says the two books imagine a living galactic network that evolves consciousness instead of technology. - In that scenario, the cosmos functions as a community of beings and supports harmony with nature and one another during crisis. - Dr van Erkelens concludes in the foreword that humanity needs to replace the “love of power” with the “power of love.”

Between the lines: - The project positions myth and spirituality as serious tools for worldbuilding, not decorative add-ons. - By centering a communal cosmic order, Roberts is also making a philosophical argument against hierarchy and isolation. - The use of Keats signals a deliberate link between Romantic literature and speculative fiction. - The companion book appears designed to deepen the same worldview while shifting into a more explicitly devotional register.

What's next: - Soul Among the Stars is slated for release in 2027. - Roberts is promoting the work through Vandrassian Press and social media, including the project’s Facebook page. - The two books together are being framed as a larger “what if” narrative about how a conscious cosmos might live, relate and endure.