Vraeyda Literary.
This Cosmos is Ours
Cerebral, emotive, visceral & immersive Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels
By Hayden Moore, Sapha Burnell, Sacha Rosel, Elana Gomel, Łukasz Drobnik, Siobhán Clark, Söphie Edwards, Val Votrin, & RL Arenz III.
Current Catalogue
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Vraeyda Literary
Sci-fi & fantasy to combat apathy & reignite the search for beauty.
We focus on works with an intense, pugilistic and emotional bent.
This isn’t your kid’s sci-fi stop. Prepare for explosive plots, vivid imagery and often pugilistic prose doused in the aura of poetic and pristine writing. The Vraeyda work is not for the faint of heart.
The novels
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Sky Tracer (Fungal Realm 1)
In the eternal darkness of the fungal realm of Ūmfalla, two women from different worlds, Mena the warrior and Ruthy who fell from the sky, form an unlikely bond and use their newfound powers to try and topple an empire.
Will their secrets topple them?
Genre Action/Adventure Fantasy, Sword & Sandal Fantasy, Dark Fantasy
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My Heart is The Tempest (The Tempest Trilogy 1)
In a land of oppression where light is stone cold blindness and snow and ice claw all form of resistance to pieces, darkness is waiting to arise, rage bubbling from the embers of the earth to meet its fire embrace.
Young human Sycorax boils to find a space beyond the ice.
Genre Dark Fantasy, Feminist Coming-of-Age, Shakespearean Fantasy
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Char & Ash (Judge of Mystics Saga 1)
The Mystic Realms keep a tenuous peace after centuries of war. Forged into the Realms’ only Judge, Caleb Mauthisen is both peace maker and executioner of the Mystic Truce. When Caleb is called to a scorched Sacred Grove, rumours reignite tensions as Ares warns of war’s whisper. Queen Selyka is hiding something in the roots and petals of her Fae Courts, and it smells of rot and ash.
Genre Mythpunk, Godpunk
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Girl of Light
A voice through Svetlana’s mirror guides her beloved MotherLand from behind its’ electric tower. The war with Wulfstan is not going as well as Sveta hopes, but she trusts the Voice. Sveta’s beloved MotherLand unravels in a war-torn adventure through monsters, missing eyes and broken mirrors. Girl of Light is a Slavic punch based on an even darker history.
Genre Sovietpunk, Dark Fantasy, WWII Alternate History
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The Saga of Ádís Rauðfeldr
The Saga of Ádís Rauðfeldr is deeply rooted in the mythology, legends, and folklore of the Norse and the Sámi at the advent of the Viking era. It is the story of women, mortal, enchanted and cursed, who survive and free those who have been doomed. This tale though dark at times concerns the enduring nature of those who survive, and whose voice can still be heard today.
Genre Norse Fantasy, Norse & Sáami Folklore
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NEON Lieben (Lieben Cycle 1)
AI meets gene-splicers, when the Idless & the Conglom fight to define artificially intelligent android Lieben and thus, the world. Seven decades later, Aderastos sets the human race against its’ next stage in evolution, if he can survive long enough to rescue his fellows. Two interconnected storylines intersect.
Will Lieben help, or hinder?
Genre Cyberpunk
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Vostok
Poznań, Poland. The middle of a harsh winter.
Weronika is in love with her best friend Wu, who told her about his new boyfriend. They spend most evenings drinking away their problems with a bunch of like-minded pub-goers. There’s been a terrorist attack. A girl murdered with a war scythe. The reality reveals a whole new layer when the friends mention a place called Vostok City.
Genre Cyberpunk, Espionage, Thriller, Gay Romance
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Aegis
Not all shields are unbreakable. Some shatter.
All Kyle Ross wanted to be was a superhero. Like the mythological shield of the gods, Kyle became Aegis, a shield against evil. Journey with Kyle 'Aegis' Ross through triumph and failure, with allies against super powered foes, and the emotional upheaval of love and loss. A hero deconstructed, then built back up.
Genre Superhero, Mythpunk
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The Bottom Line
Release Date 2024
What gives human life value after artificial intelligence and robots take over their jobs? When Canada starts ‘Bottom Lining’ humans in favour of robots, people lose their jobs but maintain their income.
What brings meaning? How do people continue exist when we’re Bottom Lined?
Genre Solarpunk
PRINT | DIGITAL
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The Oracle Seller
Release Date 2024
Dam Inspector Merten De Roovere lives in Grooterdam, a city reclaimed metre by metre from the swamplands and the sea. When he refuses the prediction of one Seer Merten navigates around con-men, prophets with side gigs and the god of Dragonflies, who swears his pretties see the future.
Genre Absurdist Fantasy, Godpunk
PRINT | DIGITAL
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Son of Abel (Judge of Mystics Saga 2)
Release Date 2024
"I want out."
The entire cosmos hiccups around Finnegan the Fae. Mystic Judge Caleb Mauthisen desperately clings to the journals of a 7th Century Catholic Cardinal, obsessed with a magical tattoo that threatens to crumble the Mystic Realms to wrath and war.
A place they know and fear too well.
Genre Mythpunk, Godpunk
PRINT | DIGITAL
The Authors
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Hayden Moore (Sky Tracer)
Sky Tracer is Hayden’s debut novel, a kick-ass fungal fantasy with powerful femme fatales & women warriors.
Hayden is the author of over 50 published short stories.
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Sacha Rosel (My Heart is The Tempest)
Sacha has a summa cum laude degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures majoring in English and a Master’s degree in Chinese Languages and Civilizations. She writes both in English and in Italian. My heart is The Tempest is her first project in English, a dark fantasy inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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Elana Gomel (Girl of Light)
A prolific author & academician, Elana writes papers on cyberpunk and novels gazing clearly at the complexity of humanity’s dark side.
Elana is the author of Girl of Light, Little Sister, and a myriad other intense stories.
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Siobhán Clark (The Saga of Ádís Rauðfeldr)
Siobhan is a historical fiction writer in Glasgow, Scotland, where she lives with her husband.
From a young age, she was introduced to many fictional works by family who encouraged her interest in history, not only of her Scottish and Irish roots, but that of her wider heritage stretching as far back as the Viking era.
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Sapha Burnell (NEON Lieben, Char & Ash)
Cyberpunk + Mythpunk
A true -punk, Sapha defies norms and focuses on cerebral & emotionally passionate works of cyberpunk + mythpunk/godpunk fiction, like NEON Lieben & the upcoming Char & Ash: Judge of Mystics Saga 1.
Sapha is the voice of Vraeyda, hosting the MacroMicroCosm, Magdalene Feast Reading Series & We Aren’t Dead Yet Podcasts.
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Lukasz Drobnik (Vostok)
Łukasz Drobnik is a Polish writer writing mostly in English. His favourite pastime is taking literary fiction and blending it with other genres, and he’s a huge flash fiction fan (though he doesn’t shy away from longer forms). He lives in Kraków, Poland.
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RL Arenz III (Aegis)
The art of science fiction. While five kids scream in his ears.
R.L. Arenz III brings fiction with bite, the way only a moody, hilarious pugilist can… while homeschooling the kids.
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SB Edwards (The Bottom Line)
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Val Votrin (The Oracle Seller)