With J.J. Abrams already having his fingers in so many pies, now comes word on yet another new project for the genre favourite.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, HBO has put in an order for Abrams’ sci-fi fantasy series Demimonde. The cable network managed to beat out Apple in a bidding war for the small-screen effort.

Abrams, of course, has quite the impressive record so far when it comes to his TV work. To date, he’s co-created the likes of Lost, Alias, Fringe and Felicity, not to mention he currently serves as executive producer on HBO’s phenomenal Westworld. For Demimonde, this marks the first time that Abrams will be writing a series since Fringe back in 2008.

So far, the early word on Demimonde has it pegged as focussing on a mother, father and daughter who are in a car crash. The matriarch of the family – who also happens to be a scientist – ends up in a coma due to the accident, and this leads to her daughter going through the mother’s science experiments. Somehow, the daughter ends up transported to another world where she finds herself battling “a monstrous, oppressive force”, and she’s soon joined by her father. The network has already labelled the series as “an epic and intimate sci-fantasy drama”, which well and truly puts Demimonde in STARBURST territory.