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Digital Frontiers

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SHELL is now available in eBook format!

If you’re still on the fence, pop on over to the product page and check out the first 7 plus chapters or so in the eBook “Look Inside” feature. (Yes, the chapters are short and snappy, as befitting the tale.)

Physical, concrete objects are in our opinion far superior–they are safer, let’s say, from corruption. They’re easier on the eyes, and there’s nothing quite like assembling your own library in your home.

That said, digital formats take up infinitely less space, are received instantaneously, and are more convenient for the majority of people in this day-in-age. In this case, they are also much cheaper and more “economical” (if slightly less, in our opinion, pleasurable).

So SHELL has broken into the digital space, as will Lamp Land when the time comes.

This spring, yes, as we turn the final screws…

Shell: Now Available

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The task was to establish a foundation. To create something truly unique. Niche. Experimental. Well.

Deep, deep in the cosmos, in the core of some inconspicuous, hollowed-out asteroid, sleeps the Subject. Comatose. Seemingly inaccessible. And yet within her mind dwells a great fabrication, architecture stitched together from bits and pieces of her past into a (more or less) hospitable environment: the City. It is inside this City the mystery unfolds.

The laws of physics are failing. There’s a death. There are bad actors :.smile.:. There are those pulled in from afar tasked with making sense of things. There’s an insidious godlike substance driving everything along.

Uncover the godlike substance that makes up our universe. Accompany the inquisitors trying to put things right. Search for a semblance of Home・Place・Normalcy. And experience the dissolution of the City.

Enter the City. Enter Shell.

Get Shell HERE!

On the Horizon

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Prototype soon to be in hand, we are on the final stages leading up to the release of Shell — August 8, 2021. That’s 8 / 8 / 21. Significant? Significant in the way that 8s are upright infinities and shell has a tendency toward such a form.

Shell will be available exclusively in PRINT for the foreseeable future. The reasoning behind this is partly due to the time required to learn and implement the E-book formatting process, but mostly due to a deeply-rooted belief in the importance of physical media.

Once Shell goes live, our focus will turn toward our second novel set–ideally–to release in Q4 of 2021, Lamp Land. More on that later.

On SHELL (1)

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Revisions and revisions. The process that began back on–excuse me while I consult the original, handwritten manuscript–August 9, 2016 is slowly coming to fruition. Each pass through the text, stitching, eliminating, altering, infusing, reveals a more polished exterior; the sculptor, once chipping away at a rough hunk of marble, now passes finer and finer grit sandpaper over its surface. The resulting work is much smoother to the touch, though not without its odd burrs and subcutaneous imperfections. Those may never go away completely.

Because nothing is perfect.

There will be a time when the sculptor will lay down his sandpaper and step away from the finished product and remark “Well that isn’t quite right, but it’ll have to do.”

It’s all an experiment of a grandiose degree–one which we are rather proud of (though humble).

And it’s coming.

Interconnectedness

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Though our works span several literary genres (some even pretty darn close to good ol’ plain, present day, present time literature), they are all connected–through characters referenced or appearing in the flesh, concepts, events :.Actions have waves.:, but above all by the substance that flows through the veins of existence itself: shell.

This is why Shell will be our first published work. Its concept is integral in all our works (a lazy literary device we think not!), a means by which all things past, present, and future are linked. In the words of the Sister: Everything stems from shell, returns to shell.

Still Beating

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After months I’m here to provide a long overdue update. What on earth is it that we’ve been doing? To put it simply: writing. We’ve been writing.

The final build process for SHELL (coming Summer 2021!) will commence this December. Until then we’ve been penning away at the draft of our fourth book, The Smith (release date TBA), and lemme tell ya that one’s a whopper. The Smith is a book about things lost and things found and other things just showing up unannounced. But why talk about The Smith when SHELL yet slumbers? We’re getting ahead of ourselves here.

SHELL is a tale of homogeneity and what happens when an alien substance is introduced into a comatose body. The body is a city, you see, a finite vessel being filled with something infinite. This grave imbalance poses many problems, as you can imagine.

More on SHELL next time, when I promise to be much more timely and a lot less cryptic.

Until then… Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel… what does it mean to you?