WIP: Myrie Pliers (English version)

Warning!
This translation is not finished. There is a risk it never will be.

Myrie Pliers is an 11 year old child with social anxiety who lives with her family in a small village named Byrglingen in the mountains. She avoids social company apart from her beloved family. She likes to hike alone in the nearby mountains. Almost alone: her Educational AI Gramantra is always with her. When she becomes 11, Gramantra suggests that Myrie may try to visit an unconventional school. Due to her negative experiences, Myrie is frightened but nonetheless dares to go there.

In our world, she would be a person who would have to deal with discrimination but that is not focus of the story. Instead, the story tells us how she finds friends despite her fears. It is a story about friendship, adventures and the bond to nature and freedom. My aim was to tell a heart-warming story that is sensitive about an autistic character, without having too much of the focus on that part.
It is an Utopia with vague roots in the Lord Of The Rings universe.
The story will be written in six volumes.

Feedback is always welcome as far as it is not insulting. One exception here: Please refrain from commenting on my English if your main native language is German. Exception of that exception: I chose you for that matter.

Cover of volume 1, Myrie Zange, the symmetry of snowflakes. It shows a person climbing up a rock and from there looking down into a green valley with a small village. A narrow stream flows through the village. There is an asymmetrical snowflake left of the title.

In the first volume Myrie mainly is an eleven years old child with social anxiety. She lives with her family in the village of Byrglingen, and loves to go on excursions to the surrounding mountains alone.
The book is about her first year at a school that is rather unconventional in her world.
The story strictly filters everything through her perspective and introduces us into the fantasy and science fiction setting and makes us familiar with the cast.

The first volume is complete. There might be some minor changes, but nothing of importance. It will be translated piece by piece and I would be really happy about a native speaking autistic beta reader who likes playing around with language and feeling words in their mouth.

MyriePliersTheSymmetryOfSnowflakes.pdf

MyriePliersTheSymmetryOfSnowflakes.epub

"Myrie Pliers", Volume 1, html-version

Link to the cover in original size


The image shows a map with elevation and depth lines and a color profile that shows mountains. Registered cities are Fork, Nyanberg, Thale, Aalsund, Rumpf, Schleshorn, Elmshacht, Brewen and Mørdorf. Byrglingen is the only registered village. In the west, the country borders on the sea or ocean. The land line in the north is a little reminiscent of Sweden and Norway in some places.

A map showing parts of the continent Maerdha where the story takes place.

link to the map in original size


Same map in grayscale.