Genevieve Abeille

Genevieve's first novel (1966) was an unauthorized sequel to B.F. Skinner's Walden Two. In it Genevieve examined what a scientific-behaviorist-utopian community might look like 30 years after we left them in Skinner's book. In the book Genevieve's protagonist realizes that behaviorism is a crock, a mechanization of the self, which will eventually lead to cancerous societal forms growing inside the utopia.

The next books written were an alt-history trilogy called The Turning Point Trilogy. (The "N" in Turning on the cover was backwards.) Consisting of three novels released in 1968, 1970, and 1971, each book takes a single divergent point in history—Alan Turing's success or failure in performing codebreaking for the Allies in World War II—and examines the ramifications of different changes to the timeline depending on that. The first volume saw a world where success with computers on both sides of the war created a world technocratic-fascist society, a seemingly effortless and natural union of a post-war technocratic America with Nazi Germany, all ruled over by computers. The second volume posits that Alan Turing lives, does not get dosed with hormones or kill himself, and creates a sort of queer ecotechnological paradise using trinary computing. The third, seemingly the most bleak at first, examines a worldline where the invention of nuclear weapons during World War II by both Axis and Allies led to a full nuclear exchange, but also led to an eventual post-apocalyptic primitivist ecotopia hundreds of years in the future. This setting, seemingly the most bleak in an era of Mutually Assured Destruction, is actually the most hopeful work of the trilogy.

Now Genevieve is onto a new series, the Kinarchist series, which looks at reborn individuals across time in different time periods: (before Earth existed, in the Neolithic, in the 1970s contemporary Earth, in the near future of 2021, and in the far future when humanity has migrated peacefully across the solar system and found harmony with all the indigenous entities therein) linked by their relationship to a giant monadic larval entity being, situated outside of time. The first book which came out in 1972 is about people's past life reincarnations working together over many different periods of human history to achieve contact with this entity.

The new book, second in the series coming out in the next few weeks after the convention, examines that larval entity which all these humans over time have been working for, from the perspective of the humans first experiencing communion with it. It is supposed to be more psychedelic, more concerned with the thoughts and feelings of this alien entity, really digging into the connections between living things of all levels of existence: the common consciousness among all entities in the universe.