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

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 cont...

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