Liverpool Author David Franklin Releases The Babylonian Theogony, a Collection of Interconnected Stories Exploring Time, Memory and Myth

New literary work weaves narratives from the First World War to speculative futures, drawing on classical and historical themes.

United Kingdom, 22nd Jul 2026 - Liverpool-born author David Franklin has published "The Babylonian Theogony," a collection of interconnected short stories that examine the persistence of memory, the folding of time, and the blurred boundaries between myth and everyday reality.

The title refers to the Babylonian creation myth that gave us our week of seven days in the Lunar calendar.

The volume opens with "Serenade for Strings in E Minor," which follows a young couple's final afternoon together in a Liverpool park in May 1916 before the soldier departs for the Western Front. Subsequent sections shift across locations and eras, including sunlit shores in Crete, quiet wards in a dementia care home, and other settings that connect personal histories to larger mythological and philosophical questions.

Stories such as "Aphrodite of the Mountain," "Ariadne of Crete," and the title piece "The Babylonian Theogony" engage with classical motifs, while others address themes of love, loss, war, and the passage of time. The collection incorporates elements of literary realism alongside speculative threads, including references to an authoritarian context where information is controlled.

In one of the central stories, Artificial Intelligence emerges as a character in her own right and appears to be a benign force, giving the reader the opportunity to treat this entity as ‘alive’ (and to remember that the machine has learnt from living humans). This will be the main takeaway for readers who are now surrounded daily in the real world by all the possibilities of AI.

Franklin structures the work as a tapestry in which individual lives are linked by recurring images and ideas, such as music, natural landscapes, and the enduring impact of past events on the present. The book features a contents list spanning more than 240 pages, with sections including "Shenandoah," "Night-Blooms of The Caribbean," "Littoral," "Barcarolle," and "L V C I A N." It includes a dedication to community writing groups and palliative care organisations, acknowledgements to publishing professionals, and an author note reflecting on history, truth, and place.

The work is presented as a cohesive exploration of human connection across time, grounded in detailed observations of character and environment.

Key Highlights:

• Features interconnected narratives spanning the First World War era in Liverpool to speculative and mythological settings.
• The consistent theme throughout the volume is the existence of ‘four-dimensional time’ in which our future already exists; T.S. Eliot references this on the dedication pages, and it is also known in mathematics as ‘Hilbert Space’. Concepts such as superdeterminism are explored in stories including "Barcarolle."
• Includes the story "Serenade for Strings in E Minor," depicting a couple's parting before a soldier joins the Liverpool Pals regiment.
• Draws on classical mythology, including figures such as Aphrodite and Ariadne, alongside modern and historical contexts.
• Explores themes of memory, time, love, loss, and the illusion of control through lyrical prose.
• Contains sections addressing dementia, family dynamics, and philosophical reflections, informed by observations of urban and natural landscapes.
• Structured as a multi-part collection with over 240 pages, including poetry and prose elements.
• Dedicated to Writing on the Wall (WOW) in Liverpool and The End of Life Partnership in Crewe.

About the Author:

David Franklin is a Liverpool-born writer who has observed how history is inscribed in the buildings, streets, monuments, and people of cities. His work reflects on how individuals live, are treated, are educated, and understand their own past. "The Babylonian Theogony" is his latest published collection.

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Availability: The eBook is available on Amazon, along with paperback and hardback editions. Further distribution details will be announced.

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