Lamentations Of The Flame Princess: A True Relation Of The Great Virginia Disastrum, 1633

Virginia 1633. Beinge an account of the rising of a new star to the West of the Virginia Colony, and its derangements of space, The Engines of a Second Creation, rains of fishes and burninge Coales, the Mazement thus brought to Heathen and Christian, and the prodigies, sports of nature, and invasive creatures from spheres beyond, now disportinge upon the Earth

After years of raids and massacres, the Powhatan Confederacy and the Virginia Colony find themselves in an uneasy peace. The people of Jamestown and outlying plantations again trade with Powhatan neighbors, and English planters again ship tobacco to markets across the Atlantic.

Then the land to the west of Powhatan territory seems to rupture skyward, a new star rising into the sky. Down the James River soon come reports of strange happenings, strange beasts, and stranger people.

The English were not the only ones seeking a New World.