Plenum

Vanu Francoeur is a gender-neutral novice in the Kinship of the Suffering God, whose mandate is to seed new stars within a stellar nursery, where jonahs (living ships descended from the whales of Old Earth) roam wild. An intimate encounter with an exotic outsider stirs up a storm of conflicts within the usually quiet religious order, and triggers a spiritual awakening in Vanu that forever changes hir relationship with hir community and hir sibs. In rebellion against the Kinship's heavy-handed sanctions, zhe hurtles towards a resolution-touched by a haunting mystery-deep within the fires of a star.

Geoffreyjen Edwards planned to be a full-time writer from an early age. They took a long detour, however, through a successful career as a scientist, and returned to their aspirations as a fiction writer only a few years before retiring from their university position. Since then, however, they have been writing and publishing steadily. Plenum: The First Book of Deo is not only their first published novel, it is the first installment of a 15-book saga currently in development called The Ido Chronicles. They live in Quebec City, Canada.