Thoth: A Romance

The narrative centers on Daphne, who recounts how a hereditary line called Thoth pursues a centuries-spanning scheme to create a superior race by using pestilences and suspended animation. It presents the city's uncanny institutions, including secretive women of royal descent, and examines tensions between cold intellectual designs and ordinary human attachments. As scientific control and calculated planning collide with chance, love and personal loyalty drive transformations that unsettle the architects' purposes, provoking revolt, destruction, and an eventual return to earlier moral ties and the city of Athens.