The 1492 Trilogy · Johnny JJ Hernandez

He crossed five centuries. She chose to build a new world with him.

A 1992 expedition into the Sargasso Sea throws NOAA scientist and ex-Navy pilot Dante Vicente Creelson back to 1482. Ten years before Columbus, he meets Keolixani, and together they set out to unite the nations of the Americas into one covenant.

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Born from science. Driven by faith in humanity.


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The 1492 Trilogy · Book One

1492: The Relativity of Tomorrow

In 1992, Dante Vicente Creelson is a NOAA scientist and former Navy pilot charting a strange anomaly in the Sargasso Sea. Then the sea opens, and he wakes in 1482, a decade before three Spanish ships will reach the Caribbean.

He knows what is coming. He cannot stop it alone. Keolixani can see what he can't: the old alliances, the grudges, the ceremonies that bind a promise. What begins as survival becomes a marriage, and the marriage becomes a mission: to bring the nations of the Americas together in a covenant of their own making, before Columbus lands.

A sweeping love story and a bold rewrite of history, where the future is decided by the people who already live here.

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Published
Oct 12, 2025
Genre
Sci-fi alt-history · romance
Series
1 of 3

Meet the characters

The people who would not be conquered

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“Not conquest. Not tribute. A covenant. Let Spain sit at the fire as every nation here has sat at it: as an equal.”
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The world of 1492

What the Americas built when they built it together

The Inti Condor, a sun-powered flying machine, passing over a village by the sea as people wave

Invention · The Inti Condor

A flyer that drinks the sun

Built with the Inca, the Inti Condor rides the warm southern air with its cargo and as many as twenty passengers. On the day the ships arrive, it is already in the sky.

Eyamari, a carved stone pendant with a glowing center

Eyamari · The Stone That Remembers

It fell from the sky. It brought him through time.

Dante's grandfather's Rarámuri firestone, fallen from the sky near Lake Arareko. He was wearing it the day the Sargasso Sea opened beneath him. It may be the reason he survived the crossing.

It still glows blue. It still runs warm.

Free reader gift · 1992

The Sargasso-7 field notes

Before 1482, there was the expedition. These are Dante's own notes from the 1992 voyage, written in the days before the sea took him. None of it appears in Book One.

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  • Prequel material set before Book One
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Book Two · Coming late November 2026

The Gravity of Yesterday

The covenant holds. Now it has to survive the ships. Dante and Keolixani's story continues on Amazon in late November 2026.

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Book Three is planned.


About the author

Johnny JJ Hernandez

Johnny JJ Hernandez

Writer of the 1492 trilogy

Johnny JJ Hernandez writes romantic, richly told science fiction about the history that might have been. His debut, 1492: The Relativity of Tomorrow, asks what would happen if the peoples of the Americas had ten years' warning, and a love story at the center of the answer.

He's at work on Book Two, The Gravity of Yesterday, coming late November 2026, with Book Three to follow. He shares the story behind the books on TikTok.

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