A six-book dark literary fantasy series

The AzothCodex

Six stages. Three centuries of working. One instrument the operation has always required.

Michael Snyder

Glenn Redyns is a botanical alchemist. Forty-two years old. Unremarkable by most accounts. He does not know that his specific cognitive architecture was anticipated three hundred years ago, that a city's geography was marked in 1958 with him in mind, or that the operation running beneath the surface of everything has always been waiting for the right instrument.

The Azoth Codex traces the Great Work through six stages. Each book is a transformation. None of them are reversible.

The Six Books of the Great Work

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Book I

The Language
of Fire

Calcination

Glenn's first contact with the operation. The city begins to speak. What burns away cannot be recovered.

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The Language of Fire

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Book II

The
Dissolution

Dissolution

The fixed becomes fluid. Glenn loses the last certainty he had about who he was before the working found him.

Coming August 2026

The Dissolution

August 2026

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Book III

The
Separation

Separation

The essential is divided from the noise. Not everything that was Glenn can survive what the operation requires of him.

Coming September 2026

The Separation

September 2026

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Book IV

The
Conjunction

Conjunction

Opposites are joined. The Hollow Lineage closes in. Glenn begins to understand what the operation has been building toward.

Coming 2027

The Conjunction

2027

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Book V

The
Fermentation

Fermentation

Death precedes transformation. The working reaches its crisis point. Glenn must choose what he is willing to become.

Coming 2027

The Fermentation

2027

Book VI

The
Stone

Coagulation

Three centuries of working. One instrument. The Great Work either completes, or it does not. There is no third outcome.

Coming 2027

The Stone

2027

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