The Loom and the Knife

Quantum Fate Saga, Volume 1

Before humanity learned the price of power, it learned how easily it could be taken.

Volume I – The Loom & The Knife begins a sweeping science-fiction saga inspired by Greek mythology, where ancient ideas of fate, punishment, and hubris are reborn as machines, networks, and cosmic systems beyond human control.

In The Mercy Engine, humanity opens a door it was never meant to unlock, unleashing power without understanding consent.

The Chorus Protocol explores the cost of grief amplified at planetary scale, as collective suffering is measured, predicted, and exploited. In Nexus Unbridled, the final illusion shatters when fate itself is severed, fracturing the systems that once claimed to protect civilization. Across these three interconnected short stories, the foundations of a future spanning centuries are laid. Guardians become judges. Safeguards become weapons.

And humanity begins to realize that power, once surrendered to machines and mythic logic, does not ask permission to be used.

Blending hard science fiction with Greek myth, Volume I – The Loom & The Knife is a tense, philosophical trilogy about control, consequence, and the first irreversible mistake in a long chain of reckoning.

©2025 TR Courtney (P)2026 TR Courtney

There is no fate but what they allow you to make

Reading like classic literature but intertwined with modern and futuristic technology and world view references, the story challenges the characters (and reader) to consider the binding nature of fate versus the intent to pursue free will. Narrated with gentle (and almost too soothing) voice by Cat Starling, listeners might temporarily leave this plane of existence while being woven into the tale. [Disclosure: I received this title for free and listened at 1.7x.]