D.A. Murray's Dominion Ascension: Turning the Gender War Inside Out

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory · Apr 9, 2026 · 1h 3m

The 35th episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory features Mookie sharing the mic with debut novelist D.A. Murray to break open her provocative novel Dominion Ascension: a dystopian world where men are reduced to tools, women run everything, and control becomes the real antagonist.Her set-up is sharp, a post-war society reshaped by chemical damage and role reversal. The result is an authoritarian matriarchy that inverts the old system and then exposes it. Through Donnie, Linda, and Robbie, Murray builds a character-driven story that refuses to hide behind worldbuilding. Her story is…