Books by Anthony R. Smith
Speculative fiction, science-fiction satire, corporate dystopia, and survival stories about power, systems, and the strange ways people behave when everything starts to fail.
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Current Projects
The Thirteenth Mirror
The Thirteenth Mirror is a multi-story series that weaves together modern professional life and ancient mysticism through the concept of “dream translation.” At the heart of the series lies a mysterious, evolving codex that connects disparate lives, from corporate strategists and trauma therapists to archivists and journalists, each grappling with how their dreams bleed into and rewrite their waking reality. As the series progresses, the scope shifts from deeply personal “dream journal” reckonings to broad institutional and ontological mysteries. Each book functions as a self-contained exploration of a specific “trope,” ranging from temporal time-loops and body-swapping rivalries to ancestral curses and corporate sabotage, all while maintaining a cohesive, underlying tension between medieval ethics and modern societal pressures. The series builds toward a capstone synthesis where the final translator closes the chain, confronting the ultimate truth of the codex.
Working titles of the The Thirteenth Mirror story series:
- The Dream Journal
- Forbidden Codex Translator
- Lunar Lovers
- The Sisterhood Dream Circle
- The Ancestral Dream Inheritance
- A Feral Wellness Experiment
- Demonic Dream Gatekeeper
- Her Astrological Dream Time-Loop
- The Body Dream Book
- Hidden Translator
- Corporate Dream Sabotage
- A Multi-Gen Dream Chain
- My Dream Bleeds Reality
- The Translator’s Moral Reckoning
- Enemyship Dream Swap
- Lunar Fertility Ritual
- Who Let the Codex Judge Friendships?
- A Dream Possession
- Prophecy Loop
- The Thirteenth Mirror