Author: Drew Briney

Drew Briney builds speculative worlds that combine science fiction, fantasy, and questions about how societies respond to extraordinary change. Moon 514 is the shortened form of Moon 514: Blaze and the White Griffon, a novel illustrated by Grant Hansen. Its setting imagines a damaged future in which technology and magic develop together. Blaze has been trained to protect a surviving community, but a devastating attack forces him to reconsider his preparation, his mentor, and the larger forces shaping his world. Briney describes the project as an effort to make magic foundational to a science-fiction framework rather than treating it as an incidental ability. That blend gives the book a science-fantasy identity and supports its young-reader classification. Grant Hansen supplies the credited illustrations, making Hansen’s visual contribution a clearly defined element within Briney’s fully realized book. Moon 514 therefore belongs to Briney’s broader interest in invented worlds while carrying a fuller title that identifies both its protagonist and the white griffon.