My Babylon is going on tour.
To celebrate the release of the Complete edition of My Babylon, both on Kindle and in print, I’ll be writing guest posts for the blogs of some of my fellow indie writers.
Here’s a sneak preview of the post appearing on the website of Charlotte Henley Babb on August 2nd.
Cosmology
I often have a difficult time describing My Babylon to prospective readers, especially ones well-versed in the genres of Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Fantasy, and Magical Realism. Often, I find myself explaining the book by what it isn’t. One way it’s unlike Urban/Paranormal Fantasy is that it doesn’t stop to spell out its cosmology. It seems to me sometimes that writers in those genres only write in order to tell you about their cool take on some critter from popular fiction. These are my vampires, my werewolves, my ghosts, my penanggalan, or whatever monster they come up with, and in the midst of showing you how cool they are they miss the story.
You might call My Babylon, Magical Realism, but it has more overt fantastic elements than you’ll ever find in that genre.
In fact, I won’t lie to you, My Babylon started with the cosmology.
Although, unlike most others, the cosmology is based loosely on an actual religion called Thelema*. I know most of you have never heard of it and I’ve spilled enough ink in other places explaining Thelema. So go ahead and Wikipedia it, or check out my blog scrollofthoth.com. You can even sign up for my mailing list at jameslwilber.com and get the book of commentary on My Babylon, which does some explaining as well.
But since My Babylon never stops to describe the world in which it exists, I thought I’d indulge myself here. Here’s a list of the major players in the story.