“This is like a marriage. You have to be in love with this thing for at least four or five years, and probably for the rest of your life.”
George Lucas, The Beginning: Making Star Wars: Episode I
Hello. I’m Albert Chessa, and today, 1 November 2026, I turn 38. Lucas was describing the years a creative undertaking demands, and how it might remain with you for life. Quantumyth has been with me since I was a boy. For years I have gathered its people, places, images and stories, gradually finding ways to make them accessible to others. I am now concentrating on producing actual books. The next two years are devoted to the first five, while December 2030 is the date I am working towards for their first presentation together at a market stall in Canberra.
The opening five, in their official order, are The Father, The Saviour, The Entity, The Hero and The Maiden. These are Tales 1 through 5, and each will be an illustrated book with its own protagonist, setting and emotional centre.
The Father begins with Daldas and a woodland life whose intimacy matters as much as any epic spectacle.
The Saviour concerns the responsibility carried by someone asked to save others.
The Entity enters an existence unlike our own;
The Hero looks at the person behind an archetypal role; and
The Maiden gives a familiar figure a world and agency of her own.
If this is your first visit, The Quantumyth is a collection of one hundred numbered tales, accompanied by a prelude and the framing story One Special Day.
In that story, a thirteen-year-old kid (who could be anyone, including the reader/player) encounters Eyodi, his Resonant, and enters the Library of Realities. Its books are Mythsources: lives he can experience from within. Eventually he returns to his ordinary world, but the experiences do not return in a tidy sequence. Names, scenes, faces, places and feelings surface gradually, sometimes years apart. Much of the later work consists of recognising the fragments and discovering where they belong.
It also describes my own relationship to the project. Names sometimes come to me with a force of recognition. I hear one, write it down, and feel that I have remembered something rather than invented a convenient name. Sometimes an image appears before I know its story; sometimes a place feels familiar long before I understand its inhabitants. I associate these experiences with 'my time in the Resonant Library of Realities'. I understand that this is an unusual account of creativity, and I describe it as my personal experience and the imaginative frame of the work, without expecting anyone else to share that interpretation. The task in front of me is concrete: turn those recollections into complete narratives and carefully made books.
The banner accompanying this article offers a glimpse of the worlds and beings I hope to bring into view. It is a concept image, not a collection of final character designs. The composition, creatures, costumes and other visual details will continue to develop. I intend to collaborate with artists who can contribute their own craft, perspectives and judgement to the finished illustrations. For now, the banner communicates the scale and feeling of Quantumyth: many different lives and worlds, capable of standing on their own while belonging to something larger.
My immediate production horizon runs from this birthday through 2028. Instead of trying to advance a hundred projects simultaneously, I will focus on complete manuscripts, illustration planning, visual development and preparation for physical publication of these first five. The Father currently has a working format of 160 illustrated pages at 8 by 10 inches, which provides a useful discipline for the series. Schedules can move, and quality matters more than declaring something finished prematurely, but the change in emphasis is real. I am treating this as a publishing programme with specific books to complete, rather than an open-ended collection of possibilities.
In December 2030, I intend to be at Canberra’s Old Bus Depot Markets with a Quantumyth stall and those first five books together. I picture a small, tangible beginning: books that people can hold, open and read, and conversations with visitors who have never heard of these stories before. The physical encounter matters to me. By that Christmas I will be 42, and I hope the table will show the results of sustained work begun well before today. The years between a manuscript being ready and a market appearance will give me room for illustration, production and all the decisions that a finished edition requires.
Beyond that, my plan is to bring five new books to the markets every December. One hundred numbered tales at five per year means twenty annual batches: if the first appears in 2030 and the pace holds, the final group arrives in December 2049, shortly after my 61st birthday. That sequence includes Tales 1 through 99 and Tale 00, whose archival position differs from its place in the framing narrative. One Special Day sits alongside the numbered stories and may eventually need its own publication. I would rather acknowledge the scale openly and give the work a sustainable rhythm: five new lives made available each year, with enough attention to do justice to each one.
This website will increasingly be the public home of that work. I will continue writing about art, film, games, music and the artists whose work has shaped my sensibilities, but Quantumyth will be its central ongoing creative undertaking. I will share selected development material, explain stories and characters, document the making of the books and, when they exist, introduce the completed editions. For anyone meeting me through this article, I am Albert: a husband, a father, an artist and a writer living in Canberra. What you are seeing is the beginning of a long programme of making, informed by a lifetime of looking, remembering, drawing and wondering what might lie beyond a story’s edge.
So that is my update at 38. The Father, The Saviour, The Entity, The Hero and The Maiden come first. I am giving the next two years to their development, and December 2030 remains the first major in-person milestone. Then, if the work and circumstances allow, there will be five more each year. To everyone who has followed Quantumyth or is encountering it for the first time: thank you for taking an interest. I look forward to meeting you among the books.
