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“First rate sci-fi novels. Atrium’s worlds compel both in their alien detail—and what they reveal about our own world.” -- BookLife
HOME RULE was named a finalist in the Book Excellence Awards announced in April 2024.
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The Bush Clinic
The Tribal Wars Book 1
by Stella Atrium
Genre: Science Fiction, Space Opera
A space colonization story
about seeking independence and home rule in the face of corporate
greed. Tribal women bind together in a war zone where they are
discounted as not important enough to save or keep safe.
On
Dolvia, Lt. Mike Shaw demands Dr. Greensboro’s doctoring skills at
the hospital, forcing the closure of her bush clinic. She witnesses
forced labor, forced migration, and the threat of an epidemic from
bad water. She sees how tribal women–often wearing burkas–find
solutions for saving the children in a conflict zone, and she commits
to the their cause for Home Rule.
Brianna Miller is an
isolated girl–a mixed-blood orphan–among the Dolviet tribes. With
the lessons from Dr. Greensboro, the abuse from soldiers, the
sisterhood among victims, Brianna prepares for a future she will
choose for herself. But first she must travel offworld.
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The Body Politic
The Tribal Wars Book 2
Brianna Miller returns to Dolvia
where tribal women protest the oppressive rule of Rabbenu Ely by
self-torchings in the Cylay Square. Brianna re-establishes her tribal
schools and takes on assistant Kelly Osborn who is mixed blood and
also a poet.
Kelly visits a neighboring planet Cicero
where her aunt Carline Bryant takes over her education. While
returning to Dolvia, Kelly meets the Australian adventurer Hershel
Henry who has signed on for a tour of Dolvia as a photo-journalist.
Henry takes an opportunity to interview the khalif on the opposing
side of the tribal wars.
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Home Rule
The Tribal Wars Book 3
Brianna
Miller and rebel leader Karlyhi emerge as leaders uniting the tribes
against the offworld mining cartel. Reporter Hershel Henry opens a
local newspaper to report a more honest version of events leading to
regime change. But will bringing down Rabbenu Ely only stir more
violence and unrest?
Unity starts at home. How can
the tribes bind together as a nation-state after fighting among
themselves for generations? Inspiring leaders are needed, and a
flashpoint act that binds individuals to a single cause. When Henry
witnesses (and broadcasts) the ninth death-by-fire, this one by
respected teacher Kecouroo, all the tribes feel the outrage and call
for Rabbenu Ely to step down.
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Tribal Logic
The Tribal Wars Book 4
From
Paris, Jesse Hartley jumps back to Dolvia in the galaxy's Westend. A
bloodless coup on Stargate Junction interrupts her travel plans and
sends her in a different direction. Hershel Henry is tasked with
rescuing abandoned conscripts after the abusive Company withdraws
from asteroid mining.
A change in leadership
on Stargate Junction makes all characters question how the future
will shape. How to survive the shifting loyalties among the
city-states? Will my home even be there when I return?
While
on a deep space rescue mission, Hershel Henry misses karsci on Dolvia
the Abydian khalif steps down. Within the turmoil, will Henry connect
with Jesse Hartley, or is that romance lost forever?
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Excerpt
from THE BODY POLITIC: Book Two of The Tribal Wars
I
should give my confession here. Not for me so much, or for the record: more so
young people know the reasons for our actions. I’m Kelly Osborn and I was part
of the Battle of Iamida Shores. Arrivi won the river conflict but with heavy
losses. I was nineteen and assigned to stay with the children of those in
leadership since there was no time to evacuate. As the betrothed of Rufus, I
was to watch over Colonel Sector’s girls and the other children in the village
schoolroom.
Our
station was overrun by Borabean warriors of the Gora clan. We heard them
outside our hiding place; running footsteps and bursts of gunfire, the sound so
different from a karkar’s report. My heart was beating too fast and I felt
12-year-old Millie trembling next to me, not knowing if we would be dragged
onto the street for rape or hacking off our arms. Tears marked her face while
she huddled with her sister Anna.
The
door was flung open. A bearded man in galabia and boots stood with lowered gun
and a bloody knife. In my memory, the blinding sun behind him was tinged blood
red. His dark eyes surveyed us, assessing what treasure he had found. Children
whimpered and hugged the walls. A knot formed in my throat. Sweat moistened the
hair at my temples.
The
Gora man slung the weapon’s strap over his shoulder and reached for Millie and
her sister. He cuffed Millie by the neck of her tunic and dragged them outside,
clinging to each other and limp against his rough gestures.
“Kelly,
Kelly,” Millie cried. “Help us!”
I
bolted after him. I had a large kitchen knife and nothing else. But it was
wrong what he was doing, just plain wrong. Before he was aware of my move, I
sliced across his liver from behind. His back arched and he blindly reached
behind, but I jumped away. I jabbed under his ribs with my graceless knife
where he was exposed due to his own gesture. Thrust in-and-up as we had learned
from Omiibuk. His brow furled while he stared at me. He looked down at his
galabia quickly soaked with blood.
He
still grasped Millie’s tunic when his knees buckled and he collapsed in the
doorway. The girls were pulled down on top of him, but they screamed and
scrambled away. I wasn’t actually thinking; I mean, forming thoughts. I
remember kneeling beside the body before I balanced his automatic across his
round shoulder, and the girls gathered behind me. I pulled off my glasses
smeared with blood and worked the trigger many times sending a spray of
bullets. Millie grabbed plastic ammo clips from the fallen and handed them to
me to fit into the weapon. Tat-tat-tat-tat. I saw bearded men fall and did not
care that I wounded them from behind; I was uncaring about that.
Finally
the gun was empty, the long barrel hot and smoking.
What inspired
you to write this series?
For THE BUSH
CLINIC, I wanted to focus on how women survive and thrive in a conflict zone.
The men are away fighting, and women have little access to capital to open a
business. Do they ban together to provide safety and hope for the children?
For THE BODY
POLITIC, the female characters chose to protest oppressive rule of their
rabbenu by immolation. Characters who the reader has come to love take turns
going to the public square to light herself on fire. The protest changes
attitudes and even makes the news in Paris, France.
In HOME RULE,
the primary narrator is an Australian photojournalist named Hershel Henry who
witnesses the regime change for the tribes and how they begin to assume
leadership roles in a new democracy. Many story threads are satisfied in this
book of triumph.
With Book Four
titled TRIBAL LOGIC, we return to Dolvia in the galaxy’s Westend when Jesse
Hartley jumps back from Paris, France and greets her father General Hartley who
was a leader at Stargate Junction.
What did you
enjoy most about writing this series?
Ha, ha…
everything. The characters are real to me. I enjoy placing them in
uncomfortable situations where they must solve problems and learn to become
adults. Some characters surprise me when they stand up to lead the narrative,
like Stuben el Cylahi in TRIBAL LOGIC who is just experiencing the world beyond
Dolvia’s savannah. His ideas for what is right and who needs punishment are
delicious.
Where did you
come up with the names in the story?
There’s a
pantheon of characters since they come from several tribes that must ban
together to organize a city-state. My idea was that tribal names are similar,
all boys named after war heroes and girls named after an earth mother.
Siibabean names
often have a long vowel sound like in Oriika, Fiirodan, and Omiibuk. Madquii names often start with a softer vowel
sound like Aegiv the lawgiver and his sons Aeolis, Aeton, and Aensilius. The
action is localized for each tribe, so the names become familiar and easy to
follow for which side of the conflict they support. Plus, there’s a glossary.
Can you tell
us a little bit about the characters in THE BUSH CLINIC?
Readers start
the series with Book One, so THE BUSH CLINIC carries many themes and terms that
are later used for standards of behavior, such as the warrior way, or the
policy of civilitas.
Dr. Greensboro
has a university grant to research native diseases on Dolvia to develop
vaccines for travelers. She opens a bush clinic to conduct daily rounds with
the tribal women who cannot travel to Cylay. And of course, she steps into
their troubles right away.
Brianna Miller
is a mixed-blood orphan who studies at the bush clinic school and becomes a
companion to Dr. Greensboro throughout the refuge crisis and later during exile
from the planet. They aren’t friendly so much as learning about cultures from
each other.
Have you
written any other books that are not published?
The next book in
the series titled UTCAN’S TALISMAN is set for release in August 2024. The
reader sees characters’ reactions to foreign cultures that use hedge magic in
daily life. The savannah tribes are skeptical but see the benefits to some
wards and charms.
And the third
book in this second trilogy titled THE MATRIX OPAL is ready for the proofreader
and scheduled for release in January 2025.
What can we
expect from you in the future?
Let’s put out a
good word for a Netflix series based on the adventures of diverse and
multi-faceted characters.
Stella Atrium presents planet stories about female protagonists of diverse ethnicities who encounter obstacles relatable to our lives today. How do women in a conflict zone gain voice in the public square using the few tools available to women?
THE BUSH CLINIC received an Editor’s Pick from BookLife, a 2022 Artisan Book Review Award, and a 2023 Independent Press Award for Science Fiction.
The second novel titled THE BODY POLITIC also received an Editor's Pick from BookLife and a Artisan Book Review award.
HOME RULE debuted in the Top Ten Amazon rankings for the genre category in August 2023, securing an Editor's Pick from BookLife, a Literary Titan medallion, and another coveted Artisan Book Review Award for Science Fiction.
TRIBAL LOGIC: Book IV of The Tribal Wars was released in January 2024.
Also be certain to pick up Atrium’s standalone novel SEVEN BEYOND that won a 2014 Reader’s Favorites Award in Science Fiction.
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