Origins are always constructs, always contouring ideological agendas. - Samuel R. Delany

Bear in mind that the novel—no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective—is always a historical projection of its own time.

I confess, the Amnewor is new to me. Yes, I’ve heard the name—as a minor fact in some other god’s story. Precisely what it did, though, I can’t remember. That, of course, makes it more intriguing. Death. It was associated with endless, mindless, pointless death. But which of them isn’t?

“Gods are nothing but low blood sugar,” I said. “St. Augustine, Peyote Indians…you know how it works—