Tales of the Bee Kingdom

The Bee Kingdom is a civilization with a society structured much like a beehive. It is in the midst of a technological boom and on the verge of breaking through the atmosphere to enter space.

The young woman leading the way into the space age is named An Chen.

She was once the Bee Kingdom’s pope.

Or rather, she was the first former pope in history to serve for only seven days.

Notes:

1. Hard sci-fi with a fully developed world, focused mainly on cosmology and biology.

2. A Kardashev civilization ranked between Type 0 and Type 1, with technology comparable to that of human civilization in the early 21st century.

3. The heroine is a researcher, a member of the looks-obsessed club, and someone who can row without oars. The romance is a girl-boy love story.

4. At its heart, this is a story about building the nation through technology and liberating all of humanity after being ousted: “The free development of each person is the condition for the free development of all.”