Daniel Lukacs
Focus Project:
THE JOURNEY
(working title)
A series of historical fantasy books taking us back to the myths of the early medieval North. My very first project idea that I have nurtured into a personal mission in the past decade, something that I am bound to accomplish.
Projects Ongoing
All that happens in the meantime
The Cold Dark Within
2021
Having been associated with the black metal band Vég, came up the idea of an album concept with a science-fiction theme. The Cold Dark Within is originally the background story idea for the album, but it was also published as a short story for a writing contest by Mensa HungarIQa. The world built for this story has been developing ever since and it may form the setting of something bigger in the future...
Coral Spawning
2021
Originally a biographic short story for the 2021 Mensa HungarIQa writing contest, ending up at 7th place, that will form the basis of a future screenplay. The script will unfold as a coming of age story with a touch of 1990s nostalgia and a bit more thrill than an average teenager needs.
Prince Wasteland
(working title)
Fantasy cycle project in development
The idea for a fantasy world came when I was walking in the snowfall listening to the album Winter Thrice by Norwegian black metal band Borknagar.
Worldbuilding started in 2018, after a sentence just popped out of my mind in one of the fictional languages of this pseudo-medieval land. The core substrate of the language had been developed that year.
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The biggest catalyst for this project was the urge to write my own mythology – I had this since my teenage years. I have been working on the mythologies of the people inhabiting the core continent since 2019. Eventually it might end up filling a book itself but I doubt that it may come out as the first piece of this universe.
However, the story of the planned cycle has a strong mythological backbone and the storyline is strongly connected with the myths about the fate of the world.
Divine Fantasy
(working title)
Novel in development
An entertaining fantasy-comedy not for the sake of making fun of cliches of the genre but not for completely avoid them either. Unique characters and stock heroes set free to torture the population of a semi-authentic world with an interesting take on religion. This may sound like Small Gods so far but it will be an entirely different book, I promise.
The Desert
(working title)
Novel in development
The story of a journalist cracking under pressure, set in an alternative present. Loosely based on my experience as a journalist, massively based on my feelings when facing anxiety, depression and burnout.
Albano
(working title)
Sci-fi/fantasy books in development
A fashionable time traveling science-fiction and still not. The occult meets modern physics, with a character in the middle that is very close to my heart. I seriously fear that things will get out of his hand...
These are the projects that I am currently working on. A few others may also be added gradually when reaching development phase and I will also tell about them in the blog section and more.