Logos & Perios: A Novel of Beyond & A New World
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Beyond & A New World:
Logos & Perios
History was only the beginning.
After journeying through the birth of the universe, the rise of life, and the unfolding story of humanity, Tod and Zoe believe their long pilgrimage is finally over. Paradise lies just beyond the bridge.
But the Lady of the Garden has one final request.
The Archon—the ancient adversary whose shadow has fallen across worlds, civilizations, and countless lives—has disappeared into hidden realms beyond history itself. Rather than condemn him, she asks that he be found.
Their journey first carries them through the great civilizations of Earth—from Neolithic villages and Pharaoh's Egypt to Rome, medieval Europe, colonial America, and the modern world—where they must rediscover one another across the barriers of time, power, and memory. Yet history proves to be only the threshold of a far stranger adventure.
Beyond it lies Perios—a mysterious realm where memory, illusion, and reality intertwine. Guided by the Angel of Time, Tod must enter worlds unlike any before, confronting temptations that cannot be overcome by strength alone. There, the greatest question becomes not how to defeat evil, but whether even the most fallen being can freely choose redemption.
Blending epic romance, philosophical fantasy, and spiritual adventure, Logos & Perios completes the final movement of Beyond & A New World—a story that stretches from the dawn of civilization to the borders of Paradise, asking whether love can endure not only through time, but beyond time itself.
(Perios is an ongoing work. New chapters are being regularly added.)
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About the author
Michael Susko is an independent scholar and writer whose work bridges cosmology, biology, archaeology, history, and literary imagination. He has published across multiple fields, from evolutionary theory and Neolithic studies to cultural history and symbolic anthropology. His creative vision unfolds through parallel epics—Cosmos, Bios, Mythos, Logos, and Perios—alongside companion works of research, bringing together science, history, philosophy, and story.
Across both his scholarly and imaginative writing, the author explores the meeting place of myth, history, science, and the inner life. His work gives particular attention to perspectives often overlooked in traditional narratives, seeking patterns of meaning that unite the evolutionary, historical, and spiritual dimensions of human experience.
