Our Publications
Russell Street Press publishes military fantasy and structured worldbuilding works set within the wider framework of Panimálay — a fully realised secondary world shaped from planetary physics upward. Continents, currents, climate belts, and seasonal cycles are not aesthetic choices but governing systems. Geography precedes narrative.
2026 Release Schedule
- March - May - July: Foundations of Edrass trilogy (Isenwynn sequence)
- June: World Building With AI series + Patreon launch
- 2027: Explorer Chronicles Book One
Most of the fiction to date is set on Northern Yerp, a western continent defined by upland ridges, harsh winters, narrow growing seasons, and fractured political landscapes. Its settlements rise where rivers allow them to. Its trade routes follow terrain rather than ambition. Its conflicts are shaped as much by distance and grain stores as by ideology.
Across the catalogue, Panimálay is not backdrop. It is infrastructure.
The fiction is built on logistics, climate, politics, and consequence. The non-fiction documents the systems that make that fiction possible: orbital modelling, ocean currents, settlement logic, and the disciplined integration of narrative with environment.
Each series explores a different layer of the same long-form project:
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Foundations of Edrass examines state formation and military organisation within Yerp’s upland holds.
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The Explorer Chronicles extends beyond established regions, testing how expansion interacts with geography and maritime risk.
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World Building With AI records the method behind the construction of Panimálay itself, demonstrating structured creative development supported by artificial intelligence.
All works share a single principle: worlds must function under pressure. Climate shapes culture. Terrain shapes authority. Systems shape story.
The result is a catalogue where narrative, exploration, and method are not separate endeavours, but different expressions of the same world.
"Imagination is disciplined by structure. Environment sets the limits within which culture, settlement, and story take form. What lasts does so because it is supported by systems designed to hold."
Russell Street