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Stella Atrium is a five-time award-winning science fiction writer whose planet stories follow female protagonists of diverse ethnicities facing obstacles that mirror our own world. Her Tribal Wars series (THE BUSH CLINIC, THE BODY POLITIC, HOME RULE, TRIBAL LOGIC, and UTCAN’S TALISMAN) has earned BookLife Editor’s Picks, Global Book Awards gold, silver, and bronze medals, an Independent Press Award, Artisan Book Review awards, and a Chick Lit Cafe first place. Her standalone novel SEVEN BEYOND won a 2014 Readers’ Favorite Award. THE MATRIX OPAL opens her new series, The Duchy Wars.
Bybiis can commune with animals, and Ariseng can make and charge wards of every kind. An uneasy escape built around a powerful opal turns into a fight for resistance when a foreign power that exploits women of talent tears them apart. Book One of The Duchy Wars, and a BookLife Editor’s Pick.
Stella Atrium · October 20, 2026
A five-time award winner whose Tribal Wars series swept medals across science fiction returns with a dystopian epic about two young women, a stolen opal, and the price of power in a world that undervalues them.
By DORX Chronicle Staff · October 20, 2026
