About Festivals & Trials

Festivals & Trials is a science-fiction universe built around one question:

What if Earth was never home?

The story begins with a conspiracy to banish two alien generals who threaten a universal system of power—one capable of controlling the identity and memory of every living being.

Can the conspiracy be exposed before the generals are condemned? Can their war end universal assimilation—or will their resistance become the instrument that completes it?

About the Author

G.A. Giddings is the author and creator of the Festivals & Trials science-fiction universe. His work explores memory, identity, institutional power, and the ways civilizations manipulate the past to control the future.

About The Mnemonic Wars

Earth was never ours.
It was a prison.
And humanity was the lock.

Nearly twenty-seven thousand years ago, General Siēshay was condemned to Earth.

The conspiracy that brought her there began on Etredal during the final campaign of the Mnemonic Wars.

On this occupied world, the Zenitharians manufacture the material used to strip minds of memory, identity, and choice. Siēshay’s mission is simple:

Destroy the refineries.
Neutralize the Recursion Node.
End the war.

But Etredal’s defenses yield too easily. The enemy appears to be drawing her army deeper into the planet. When an enslaved drone remembers who she is, Siēshay discovers that the invasion is part of a design reaching far beyond Etredal.

Someone intends for the planet to fall.

And for Siēshay to bear the blame.

The Next Recursion

G.A. Giddings is currently developing the next recursion of Festivals & Trials as a three-volume series.

Volume I: The Mnemonic Wars
The initial draft is complete. Developmental and line editing are underway.

Volume II: Transference
The initial story architecture and portions of the manuscript are complete. Active drafting will resume after the current editorial pass on The Mnemonic Wars.

Volume III: Telarus
The concluding volume will reimagine material originating in The Skyfire Pair while expanding the story through new characters, conflicts, and the Infinity Coffin sequence.

About The Skyfire Pair

The Skyfire Pair exists as an earlier possible recursion of the known universe. Its account may have been altered—or corrupted—by the power capable of manipulating memory and truth.

The Aëtherean proverb warns us.