Everyone on the first voyage to planet Éiruna went mad. Ten years later, passengers on the interstellar cruise ship Star Dreamer found out why: the planet’s magnetic field activated dormant telepathic genes in some passengers and crew. Theo Montrose, a restaurant manager and himself a new telepath, witnesses a woman use her new powers to heal people’s traumas. He resolves to learn how she did it, so he can cure a disease afflicting his wife, Carol. But Peter Cardinal, a resident-passenger on the ship whose genes activated years earlier, believes everyone will resent and fear the new telepaths. He recruits Theo and several others into a secret society, to prepare for the war he is certain will come. Amid conspiracy theories, supply shortages, and a quarantine order, Theo struggles to stop the war before it starts: a war that will divide his marriage, the ship, and all humanity.

ÉIRUNA is a high-concept science fiction novel about a restaurant chef on a cruise ship in space who struggles to keep his marriage together, while an outbreak of telepathy causes almost everyone around him to descend into conspiracy theories and fear.

It’s a story of identity, otherness, human nature, finding one’s tribe, and healing hidden pain.

“On one hand, Brendan Myers’ Éiruna is set on a cruise liner in space, afflicted by an outbreak of psychic powers. On the other hand, Éiruna is set right in the here and now, in our social-media era of ego, paranoia, conspiracy theories, and tribal politics…. Éiruna is Myers hitting his full stride.”

–Damien Walter, science fiction critic, filmmaker, and writer.

The author, cover designer, and publishers affirm that no AI was used in the composition of the text, nor in the creation of images and other graphic elements used on the cover, interior, or in promotional materials.

Éiruna enjoyed a successful launch on Kickstarter, from December 2023 to January 2024. (Click here to view the campaign page.) The publisher and I wish to thank all the contributors for making this book possible, and for supporting small independent Canadian publishing.