Mekan'stan: A Novel in the Okal-rel Universe

Okal Rel Saga

by Lynda Williams

A Reetion liaison. A Demish rebel captain. A Vrelish feral girl-child. Amel the Pureblood has more to worry about than his penchant for honest polygamy. There's a gun-runner leaking weapons to the Gellak side of the jup and the fallout has Amel captive and Ann bent on rescue. A novella set in the popular Okal Rel Universe created by Lynda Williams and Alison Sinclair.

110 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 2004

About the author

The Okal Rel universe of author Lynda Williams is peopled by larger-than-life characters navigating cross-cultural dramas.

In 2021 the series is the basis of an experimental word-gaming gig inspired by Lynda's own writer's journey and interests.

Originally published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, the series was taken over by its author in 2014, through Reality Skimming Press (2014-2017).

Williams taught applied computing at the University of Northern B.C. for 15 years, where she headed the Center for Teaching and Learning, and ran a web development lab for producing online courses. Since 2012 she has been Learning Technology Analyst and Manager at the Teaching and Learning Centre of Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, B.C. She also teaches introductory web design, part-time, at BCIT.

She was founder and producer of the online journal Reflections on Water, which ran for ten years ending in 2007.