One Destroyer's Dharma

Vivek's 99,000 word novel fuses sci-fi with the Mahabharata (ancient India’s Iliad). It blends the intense character voice of Some Desperate Glory with the unforgiving void and grit of The Expanse—a mythic space adventure where a sharp-tongued warrior defies duty, and a thousand-eyed god weaponizes human guilt.

Ishara is just as shocked as the six-armed, cybernetic demon on her bedroom floor—the one she just fried with her mind.

For twenty years she’d honored her oligarch father’s final command: “Hide.” Be nobody on a back-of-beyond Earth ranch. Shovel manure with only an old AI drone for company. Pretend her universal neural implant was dead.

So much for that plan.

She follows her father’s trail to a crowded migrant spaceship—because of course the bastard’s last safehouse is full of people. When the demons board, and she can't stop them massacring innocents to get to her, she rips the truth from a dying demon’s mind.

He wasn’t just any oligarch; he was Sol’s foremost weaponeer. And his masterpiece? A daughter engineered to invade minds and kill through the neural implants every human relies on. Now his dynastic rivals hunt her, desperate to collar her or vaporize her into the void.

Ishara’s done. He wanted a weapon? She’ll show the oligarchs a real war. Even if it means unleashing the slaughter she couldn’t prevent.