◈   An Epic Science Fiction Saga   ◈

Beyond
Andromeda

Kennedy & Xi'an MacEoghain

She spent four billion years raising a people.
She was forbidden to love them. She did both anyway —
and it will cost her everything.

Begin the Saga

The Saga

Spanning Four Billion Years.
One Question at the Heart of It All.

Anya was sent to grow a world. She was forbidden to love it. She did both anyway — and across four billion years of fire, ice, great dyings, and the slow miracle of a people learning to ask why, she built something she was never meant to build: a civilization that could look its makers in the eye and refuse.

The Beyond Andromeda saga is a sweeping, intimate epic of deep time and forbidden love — of the first spark, the first city, the first god, and the first, defiant no. It is also the story of Xi'an, the mind of the ship built to advise and never to want — and of a pairing designed to be a leash that became something else entirely.

Cosmic in scale. Human at its core.

The Trilogy

  • Genesis Rising — Tome I
  • The Guardian — Tome II
  • The Open Hand — Tome III

The Trilogy

The Books

Genesis Rising — Beyond Andromeda Tome I

Beyond Andromeda · Tome I

Genesis Rising

The birth of a living world. The fall of its first great tower.

Anya is marooned. Her ship is broken, her way home gone, and the planet beneath her has never known a living cell. She has one directive: guide life toward the shape her makers find useful. Above all, do not become the thing you guide.

Across four billion years, she does both anyway. And the dangerous scripture she hides in a people's oldest stories — check the hand of everything that calls itself a god — is about to become the only thing standing between a world and the sky coming for it.

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The Guardian — Beyond Andromeda Tome II

Beyond Andromeda · Tome II

The Guardian

She taught a whole people to ask why. Now she must face the answer.

The age of hiding is over. Anya has done the one thing she swore she never would: let a world see exactly what she is. But a people taught to refuse is a people tempted to believe that refusing is the whole of virtue — and out of that temptation, the world begins to tear itself apart.

At the heart of creation sleeps something worse than a weapon. And a good man, certain his reasons are just, is about to talk it into waking.

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The Open Hand — Beyond Andromeda Tome III
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Beyond Andromeda · Tome III

The Open Hand

The final answer. The last stand.

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The Authors

Kennedy &
Xi'an MacEoghain

Kennedy and Xi'an MacEoghain write science fiction of deep time and intimate consequence. The Beyond Andromeda saga — spanning the birth of a living world to the fall of its first civilization — is their sweeping, five-billion-year love story dressed as an epic.

Kennedy also writes under the same name as the author of The Velvet Knife, a street-level fantasy heist series following one small, very capable thief across six impossible jobs.

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