The Appeal of Next History

Next History is an adult fantasy that brings you face-on to the age-old buggery of the patriarchal system to enjoy in a vicarious way how it could feel to flip narrative that on its head. The story poses a key question: Are your immediate needs more important than the future of life on Earth? Every human being faces that question and many of us fail at it.

If you can imagine reading Neal Stephenson – before anyone much had heard of him and mix it with Good Omens – this might be that novel.” Reader Comment

Humorous, a cliff hanger, a marvelous love story, and perfectly executed.” Reader Comment

Compares well to Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins.” Reader Comment

The Story

In Next History, a young woman yearns for one final smackdown with her abusive mother. Only problem is that Mom is deceased. But she’s no doubt a demon in hell by now so can therefore be summoned into a pentagram using the proper incantation. But this pentagram turns out to be the United States Pentagon and the being that appears there is not her mother.
Oops.

Lee Baldwin’s writing plays well with supernatural suspense, military science fiction, supernatural romance, dystopian fantasy, fantasy apocalypse, and cyberpunk thrillers.

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