The Way of Prometheus is a unique online literature project which completes The Promethean Trilogy. TWoP is the most ambitious part to date, presenting the new ideas of Prometheanism in a new way. The Way of Prometheus encompasses experimental fiction, heroic epic, science fiction, alternate history, philosophy, adventure, mystery, correspondence, archaeology, mythology, hermeneutic self-analysis (text analyzing itself), invitational eisegesis (you are welcome to create your own interpretation), character study, short story and poetry — an open genre as diverse as necessary to explore our selves and the complexity of a world.   Finding the Way "Way" refers to both the paths the future can take, and even more to following the path of the Promethean mission. That path takes myriad forms according to individuality, with the shared focus of advancing and strengthening life for oneself and others. The Way of Prometheus focuses on fictional characters within the Promethean movement as they live in one possible alternate future, and shape it with their deeds.   Synopsis What is life? Is it the biological function of living, or is it something more? In the far future, this question some never think to ask is a central one for the being called ADITI. She is asked to explore the past, a past which could be our present and future. In her timeline, the future was changed by dedicated people who led and contributed to the Promethean movement. This is a story of what is possible. In the fullness of it many other questions will be explored, such as: • Who were the Prometheans and what were they like? • How and why did the Promethean movement succeed? • What events changed the world, by chance and design? • What is the world of ADITI's present like? • And, who and what is ADITI?   The Revolution Will Be Serialized The Way of Prometheus is a work in progress. Parts of TWoP uncovering fragments of a future will appear online here periodically. Readers are invited to examine the evidence of a future as it is discovered, and take what meaning they will. Those parts already posted may be revised as well, until the completion of the story.   Evolving Contents • All parts written and designed by Phoenix. • Only some parts are already listed here, many more are in progress also. Prolog(Analog) ADITI's first correspondence from Luna. updated 6.19.2005 Via Promethei future addition Foreshadowing future addition Flesh, Fire and Cloth Burners of cities war on burners of flags. updated 6.19.2005 Volunteers future addition Boy Hero ADITI unravels a liminal lamentation in free(d) verse. new 6.19.2005 Daphnomancy and Dragonslaying Myth, ceremony, and a destiny of three Scourges. new 6.19.2005 The Solstice That Forgets The Sun The final battle with the Void within remains unfought. new 6.19.2005 Dark Before Light future addition All Long Dead future addition Dreamer in the Moon future addition Dreams of the Dead future addition Beings of Metaphor future addition A Sandwich After Bombing future addition Psychout future addition Into the Void (Departure) future addition Epilog(Analog) future addition Travelog (postscript) future addition Appendix: Notes The author reveals the definitive textual exegesis so the reader need not interpret anything. (Facetiously speaking.) Actually, just more to ponder. expanded 6.19.2005   "Anyone who manages to experience the history of humanity as a whole as his own history will feel in an enormously generalized way all the grief of an invalid who thinks of health, of an old man who thinks of the dreams of his youth, of a lover deprived of his beloved, of the martyr whose ideal is perishing, of the hero on the evening after a battle that has decided nothing but brought him wounds and the loss of his friend. But if one endured, if one could endure this immense sum of grief of all kinds while yet being the hero who, as the second day of battle breaks, welcomes the dawn and his fortune, being a person whose horizon encompasses thousands of years past and future, being the heir of all the nobility of all past spirit — an heir with a sense of obligation, the most aristocratic of old nobles and at the same time the first of a new nobility — the like of which no age has yet seen or dreamed of; if one could burden one's soul with all of this — the oldest, the newest, losses, hopes, conquests, and the victories of humanity; if one could finally contain all this in one soul and crowd it into a single feeling — this would surely have to result in a happiness that humanity has not known so far: the happiness of a god full of power and love, full of tears and laughter, a happiness that, like the sun in the evening, continually bestows its inexhaustible riches, pouring them into the sea, feeling richest, as the sun does, only when even the poorest fisherman is still rowing with golden oars! This godlike feeling would then be called — humaneness." — Nietzsche     Subscribe to the Promethea mailing list to be notified of updates.