About twenty years ago, I donated my collection of books to the local library’s book sale. The entire Perry Rhodan series published in English, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Phoebe Atwood Taylor, H. Rider Haggard, Rex Stout, etc. This has comeback to haunt me as some books were/are out of print. However, I have also lost my small collection of books that I did keep, along with the spiral notebook I kept to prevent me from buying the same book twice or thrice.
One was a series by a woman author dealing with a world where we ultimately discover that the gods were originally 7 or so astronauts from Earth who landed there a millennium ago. If I remember correctly, and my memory is often wrong, each world has it’s own power level, thus if you go to a world with a lower power level, you would appear to be gods or at least super powered like Superman.
Among the gods were a wondrous giant swimming mermaid and an amorphous god referred to as Himher or Heshe. The protagonist was a woman warrior and the antagonist turned out to be their spaceship that was finally becoming self-aware.
I’d like to read these again and I wonder if she ever wrote a prequel or other stories of this world. But I no longer remember her name
Help please!