Description

"There have always been roads."

When the Gods willed themselves into existence, they created pathways, walking the nothingness of potentiality. As they shaped that nothingness into somethingness, they created more pathways: broad boulevards and wide thoroughfares, twisty little tracks and lazy winding lanes.

Bertha Brown is a worldwalker, just like her father. But her father is gone, lost somewhere among an infinity of planets and parallel realities. Bertha carries on, transporting cargo and passengers to support her family. But then she meets Amkhira, a strange and arrogant being who claims to know the location of Bertha's father — information which they will share if Bertha does something for them in return … steal a page out of The Infinite Atlas ….

Asphalt Gods is a 22,000 word science fantasy adventure novella. It stars a daring worldwalker, a strange being of unknown origins, planets wild and familiar, and mysterious Gods with a plan only they can understand.

[Content Warning: mild gore and violence, and threats of violence.]