The Ancient Future

Traci Harding is a Science/Fantasy Novelist, published through HarperCollins/ Voyager Australia, Bolinda Audio, Brio Books, Dragon Circle Publishing and Book.io/Stuff.io. Her work blends fantasy, fact, esoteric theory, time travel and quantum physics, into adventurous romps through history, alternative dimensions, universes and states of consciousness. THE ANCIENT FUTURE SERIES: Since its release in 1996, 'The Ancient Future' has had over fifty reprints! It became an Australian best-seller in its first month of release, made the ABC's list of "the Most Loved Books of All Time" (2010) and "Australia's Top 100 Homegrown Reads" (2013). The trilogy has had three editions and was released as an omnibus in 2014 that shot into the Amazon US top 5 Science/Fantasy books. Every Harding novel since 'The Ancient Future' has debuted in the top 10 on the Science/ Fantasy best-sellers list soon after publication. The 25th Anniversary Edition of The Ancient Future Trilogy was released by Brio Books in Paperback and as a Limited Edition Hardcover Box Set in 2022. The prequel to The Ancient Future Trilogy, 'This Present Past', was released through HarperCollins/Voyager Australia and Bolinda Audio in November 2018. The Ancient Future Series is currently under option to Film Brand Management London and is being developed as a TV series. OTHER ACCOLADES AND OVERSEAS RELEASES: The first book of The Timekeepers, 'Dreaming of Zhou Gong', was selected as one of the "50 books you can't put down - National Get Reading Campaign 2013". The Timekeepers trilogy was released in paperback in UK throughout 2017 via Harper360. 'Dreaming of Zhou Gong' and 'The Storyteller's Muse' were also released in paperback in the US through Harper360. Along with 'The Alchemist's Key', 'The Ancient Future' has been published in Complex Chinese. The Mystique Trilogy has been published in Russian, Czech, Slavic, Greek and Romanian. Traci has sold in excess of a half a million books in Australia alone. AUDIO: All of Traci's works are available as audio books through Bolinda Audio and Traci featured in "Bolinda's Top 200 Bestselling Authors of 2024". WEB 3 & BLOCKCHAIN: A previous release, 'The Twelve Chapters of the Infinite Night' - was published in all the regular formats in 2022-23 - and also released as an NFT collection in May 2023 through blockchain publisher, BOOK.io/ STUFF.io, based in Texas USA. The collection sold out. Traci is the first Australian Fiction Author to publish her work as a Decentralised Encrypted Asset (DEA) E-publication on the Cardano Blockchain. 'The Ancient Future' Cardano NFT collection, released through BOOK.io in December 2024. Traci aims to release more of her best-selling titles into the Web3 market through BOOK.io/STUFF.io in future. LATEST RELEASE: August 2025 saw the release of 'Sorcha - Vindicta', book fourteen in The Ancient Future Series. This book is a second prequel to 'The Ancient Future', that was charting on Amazon first day of release.