Dennis Meredith—Angelians

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Cover of the book Angelians by Dennis Meredith, showing a model-perfect young woman in a white coat with a stethoscope around her neck. A large jellyfish hovers behind her. These images, as well as the book’s title and author’s name are on a blue background with a hazy photo behind them.
Angelians
ANGELIANS
Dennis Meredith
Glyphus, LLC, January 14, 2026
Paperback, $16.95, eBook, $4.99, Audio Book, $4.99
Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1939118349
eBook ISBN-13: 978-1939118332
Audio Book ASIN: B0DWQTYYCK

Meredith reports:

Is my wife Joni an alien? That tongue-in-cheek question inspired the plot of my sci-fi novel Angelians. For one thing, her proximity to anything electronic—from computers to TV remotes—seems to cause them to malfunction in weird ways. And her superior, even otherworldly, intelligence and common sense far outpace me and most other humans. On the other hand, she is clearly human in form and function.

Portrait photo of Dennis Meredith.
Dennis Meredith
Those facts drove me to spin a yarn about science writer Luis Varga who—brain-damaged from an assault—falls in love with Jodi Calvetti, chief of neurology at the world-renowned Poseidon Institute for Neuroscience, while undergoing advanced brain-healing therapy. However, to his utter shock, Luis discovers that Jodi is no ordinary human, but a Resonant. Her body is controlled via quantum entanglement by jellyfish-like creatures who have fled their dying ocean home, the Jovian moon Europa.

Luis finds himself drawn into a desperate battle between two alien factions vying over how to save the Earth from climate change. Jodi’s benign faction, Angelians, seeks to clandestinely persuade humans to save their planet. The opposing faction, which has ironically dubbed itself Saviors, seeks a more nefarious solution: human genocide. Working with the Angelians to thwart the Saviors, Luis finds himself on breathtaking adventures flying aboard the aliens’ sentient, shape-shifting spacecraft and entering their huge, domed undersea bases.

Like any good science writer, I folded real science, technology, and events into the plot alongside quantum entanglement—including AI, virtual reality, deepfake videos, symbiosis, biowarfare, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings, gene editing, stem cells, breathable liquid perfluorocarbon, and fusion reactors. I even concocted a scientifically plausible evolutionary scenario by which intelligent invertebrates could evolve in Europa’s subsurface ocean.

As I’ve published my novels under my imprint, I’ve found the process becoming easier and less expensive. Professionals on Fiverr do my layouts and covers for a few hundred dollars. My cover images are produced using the AI program Midjourney. Of course, self-publishing comes with full responsibility for editing, production, and marketing, and without the imprimatur of a commercial publisher.

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