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 “First rate sci-fi novels. Atrium’s worlds compel both in their alien detail—and what they reveal about our own world.” -- BookLife 
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HOME RULE was named a finalist in the Book Excellence Awards announced in April 2024.
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The Bush Clinic
The Tribal Wars Book 1
by Stella Atrium
Genre: Science Fiction, Space Opera 

A space colonization story about seeking independence and home rule in the face of corporate greed. Tribal women bind together in a war zone where they are discounted as not important enough to save or keep safe.

On Dolvia, Lt. Mike Shaw demands Dr. Greensboro’s doctoring skills at the hospital, forcing the closure of her bush clinic. She witnesses forced labor, forced migration, and the threat of an epidemic from bad water. She sees how tribal women–often wearing burkas–find solutions for saving the children in a conflict zone, and she commits to the their cause for Home Rule.

Brianna Miller is an isolated girl–a mixed-blood orphan–among the Dolviet tribes. With the lessons from Dr. Greensboro, the abuse from soldiers, the sisterhood among victims, Brianna prepares for a future she will choose for herself. But first she must travel offworld.


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The Body Politic
The Tribal Wars Book 2

Brianna Miller returns to Dolvia where tribal women protest the oppressive rule of Rabbenu Ely by self-torchings in the Cylay Square. Brianna re-establishes her tribal schools and takes on assistant Kelly Osborn who is mixed blood and also a poet.

Kelly visits a neighboring planet Cicero where her aunt Carline Bryant takes over her education. While returning to Dolvia, Kelly meets the Australian adventurer Hershel Henry who has signed on for a tour of Dolvia as a photo-journalist. Henry takes an opportunity to interview the khalif on the opposing side of the tribal wars.

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I should give my confession here. Not for me so much, or for the record: more so young people know the reasons for our actions. I’m Kelly Osborn and I was part of the Battle of Iamida Shores. Arrivi won the river conflict but with heavy losses. I was nineteen and assigned to stay with the children of those in leadership since there was no time to evacuate. As the betrothed of Rufus, I was to watch over Colonel Sector’s girls and the other children in the village schoolroom.
Our station was overrun by Borabean warriors of the Gora clan. We heard them outside our hiding place; running footsteps and bursts of gunfire, the sound so different from a karkar’s report. My heart was beating too fast and I felt 12-year-old Millie trembling next to me, not knowing if we would be dragged onto the street for rape or hacking off our arms. Tears marked her face while she huddled with her sister Anna.
The door was flung open. A bearded man in galabia and boots stood with lowered gun and a bloody knife. In my memory, the blinding sun behind him was tinged blood red. His dark eyes surveyed us, assessing what treasure he had found. Children whimpered and hugged the walls. A knot formed in my throat. Sweat moistened the hair at my temples.
The Gora man slung the weapon’s strap over his shoulder and reached for Millie and her sister. He cuffed Millie by the neck of her tunic and dragged them outside, clinging to each other and limp against his rough gestures.
“Kelly, Kelly,” Millie cried. “Help us!”
I bolted after him. I had a large kitchen knife and nothing else. But it was wrong what he was doing, just plain wrong. Before he was aware of my move, I sliced across his liver from behind. His back arched and he blindly reached behind, but I jumped away. I jabbed under his ribs with my graceless knife where he was exposed due to his own gesture. Thrust in-and-up as we had learned from Omiibuk. His brow furled while he stared at me. He looked down at his galabia quickly soaked with blood.
He still grasped Millie’s tunic when his knees buckled and he collapsed in the doorway. The girls were pulled down on top of him, but they screamed and scrambled away. I wasn’t actually thinking; I mean, forming thoughts. I remember kneeling beside the body before I balanced his automatic across his round shoulder, and the girls gathered behind me. I pulled off my glasses smeared with blood and worked the trigger many times sending a spray of bullets. Millie grabbed plastic ammo clips from the fallen and handed them to me to fit into the weapon. Tat-tat-tat-tat. I saw bearded men fall and did not care that I wounded them from behind; I was uncaring about that.
Finally the gun was empty, the long barrel hot and smoking.

Home Rule
The Tribal Wars Book 3 

​Brianna Miller and rebel leader Karlyhi emerge as leaders uniting the tribes against the offworld mining cartel. Reporter Hershel Henry opens a local newspaper to report a more honest version of events leading to regime change. But will bringing down Rabbenu Ely only stir more violence and unrest?

Unity starts at home. How can the tribes bind together as a nation-state after fighting among themselves for generations? Inspiring leaders are needed, and a flashpoint act that binds individuals to a single cause. When Henry witnesses (and broadcasts) the ninth death-by-fire, this one by respected teacher Kecouroo, all the tribes feel the outrage and call for Rabbenu Ely to step down.


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Tribal Logic
The Tribal Wars Book 4 

From Paris, Jesse Hartley jumps back to Dolvia in the galaxy's Westend. A bloodless coup on Stargate Junction interrupts her travel plans and sends her in a different direction. Hershel Henry is tasked with rescuing abandoned conscripts after the abusive Company withdraws from asteroid mining.

A change in leadership on Stargate Junction makes all characters question how the future will shape. How to survive the shifting loyalties among the city-states? Will my home even be there when I return?

While on a deep space rescue mission, Hershel Henry misses karsci on Dolvia the Abydian khalif steps down. Within the turmoil, will Henry connect with Jesse Hartley, or is that romance lost forever?


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Stella Atrium presents planet stories about female protagonists of diverse ethnicities who encounter obstacles relatable to our lives today. How do women in a conflict zone gain voice in the public square using the few tools available to women?

THE BUSH CLINIC received an Editor’s Pick from BookLife, a 2022 Artisan Book Review Award, and a 2023 Independent Press Award for Science Fiction.

The second novel titled THE BODY POLITIC also received an Editor'sPick from BookLife and a Artisan Book Review award.

HOME RULE debuted in the Top Ten Amazon rankings for the genre category in August 2023, securing an Editor's Pick from BookLife, a Literary Titan medallion, and another coveted Artisan Book Review Award for Science Fiction.

TRIBAL LOGIC: Book IV of The Tribal Wars was released in January 2024.
Also be certain to pick up Atrium’s standalone novel SEVEN BEYOND that won a 2014 Reader’s Favorites Award in Science Fiction.


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Can you, for those who don't know you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author?
Thanks for asking. We are thrilled that HOME RULE was named a finalist in the Book Excellence Awards announced in April 2024. All books are half price at $1.99 for this promotion.

We’re proud to announce the March release of Book 4 in a sci-fi series titled TRIBAL LOGIC. The first trilogy was written over a decade, and the several narrators make us think differently about current events as Americans experience them on TV, like unrest in the Middle East and famine in Africa. The characters are well-received with awards (see list below) and stellar reviews.

With the release of TRIBAL LOGIC, the new storylines take place in an expanded world for Dolvia in the galaxy’s Westend. Several returning characters are growing out of their teen years and taking on adult roles in careers and family. Some characters who were sidekicks in the earlier books step forward as narrator or as a hero of the action.

When did you first consider yourself a writer?
In my teens, I announced to my four brothers that I would become a great American writer like Fitzgerald and Hemingway. They fell over laughing.

Which of your novels can you imagine made into a movie?
The Tribal Wars series is easily imagined as a Netflix series with otherworld locations, diverse characters, mechanized fighting, and unique animals.

Along with medallions awarded by reviewers, THE BUSH CLINIC received:
* an Editor’s Pick from BookLife,
* a 2023 Independent Press Award for Science Fiction,
* a Honorable Mention in 2023 Readers’ Favorite for Young Adult Sci-Fi category, and
* a 2022 Artisan Book Review Award.

The second novel titled THE BODY POLITIC also received:
* an Editor's Pick from BookLife, and
* a 2023 Artisan Book Review Award.

HOME RULE debuted in the Top Ten Amazon ranking for its genre category in August 2023, and received:
* an Editor's Pick from BookLife,
* a finalist in the 2023 Global Books Awards in Space Exploration category
* a finalist in the 2024 Book Excellence Awards for Science Fiction
* a 2023 Artisan Book Review Award for Science Fiction.

TRIBAL LOGIC: Book Four of The Tribal Wars was released in March 2024.

Also be certain to pick up Atrium’s standalone novel SEVEN BEYOND that received:
* an Editor's Pick from BookLife,
* a Bronze Medal from the 2023 Global Book Awards in Space Exploration category, and
* a 2014 Readers’ Favorite Award in Science Fiction.

What inspired you to write this series?
For THE BUSH CLINIC, I wanted to focus on how women survive and thrive in a conflict zone. The men are away fighting, and women have little access to capital to open a business. Do they ban together to provide safety and hope for the children?

For THE BODY POLITIC, the female characters chose to protest oppressive rule of their rabbenu by immolation. Characters who the reader has come to love take turns going to the public square to light herself on fire. The protest changes attitudes and even makes the news in Paris, France.

In HOME RULE, the primary narrator is an Australian photojournalist named Hershel Henry who witnesses the regime change for the tribes and how they begin to assume leadership roles in a new democracy. Many story threads are satisfied in this book of triumph.

With Book Four titled TRIBAL LOGIC, we return to Dolvia in the galaxy’s Westend when Jesse Hartley jumps back from Paris, France and greets her father General Hartley who was a leader at Stargate Junction.

What did you enjoy most about writing this series?
Ha, ha… everything. The characters are real to me. I enjoy placing them in uncomfortable situations where they must solve problems and learn to become adults. Some characters surprise me when they stand up to lead the narrative, like Stuben el Cylahi in TRIBAL LOGIC who is just experiencing the world beyond Dolvia’s savannah. His ideas for what is right and who needs punishment are delicious.

Where did you come up with the names in the story?
There’s a pantheon of characters since they come from several tribes that must ban together to organize a city-state. My idea was that tribal names are similar, all boys named after war heroes and girls named after an earth mother.

Siibabean names often have a long vowel sound like in Oriika, Fiirodan, and Omiibuk. Madquii names often start with a softer vowel sound like Aegiv the lawgiver and his sons Aeolis, Aeton, and Aensilius. The action is localized for each tribe, so the names become familiar and easy to follow for which side of the conflict they support. Plus, there’s a glossary.

Can you tell us a little bit about the characters in THE BUSH CLINIC?
Readers start the series with Book One, so THE BUSH CLINIC carries many themes and terms that are later used for standards of behavior, such as the warrior way, or the policy of civilitas.

Dr. Greensboro has a university grant to research native diseases on Dolvia to develop vaccines for travelers. She opens a bush clinic to conduct daily rounds with the tribal women who cannot travel to Cylay. And of course, she steps into their troubles right away.

Brianna Miller is a mixed-blood orphan who studies at the bush clinic school and becomes a companion to Dr. Greensboro throughout the refuge crisis and later during exile from the planet. They aren’t friendly so much as learning about cultures from each other.

Have you written any other books that are not published?
The next book in the series titled UTCAN’S TALISMAN is set for release in August 2024. The reader sees characters’ reactions to foreign cultures that use hedge magic in daily life. The savannah tribes are skeptical but see the benefits to some wards and charms.

And the third book in this second trilogy titled THE MATRIX OPAL is ready for the proofreader and scheduled for release in January 2025.

What can we expect from you in the future?
Let’s put out a good word for a Netflix series based on the adventures of diverse and multi-faceted characters.

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