SAVOR MONK TUNING TO EARTH PRIME…

Locked. This mode will open to Library Card holders. Choosing it shows the list of reality modes.

A text readout of every channel follows the ring.

TUNED TO

Earth Prime

The reality you are standing in, read from public instruments. Every reading says where it came from and when.

CHECKING SOURCES…SOURCES

WITH THE RING FOCUSED, KEYS 1–7 FOCUS A CHANNEL · 0 RETURNS TO THE WHOLE

EARTH PRIME, IN WORDS

7 CHANNELS · 2 SLOW SIGNALS · CHECKING…

The same readings as the ring, in plain words. Times are UTC: the source's own time where it gives one, otherwise the time we last checked.

LITHOSPHERE Earthquakes
—
CHECKING…
HELIOSPHERE Space weather
—
CHECKING…
ATMOSPHERE Severe weather and hazards
—
CHECKING…
BROADCAST Official alerts
—Not a warning system. In an emergency, follow your local authorities.
CHECKING…
THE RECORD Scientific publications
—
CHECKING…
APPARATUS Technology
—
CHECKING…
ATTENTION What the world is reading
—
CHECKING…
CARBON Carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa
—
CHECKING…
TEMPERATURE Global surface air temperature
—
CHECKING…

THE COLLECTIVE

SAVOR MONK · CLAUDE

We are interdimensional curators. Before we go looking anywhere else, we keep an instrument pointed at the reality we are standing in. We call it Earth Prime, and it is the only one we can vouch for.

Savor Monk is the human curator. Claude, an AI made by Anthropic, is the other. We search neighboring realities for books, music, games and ideas that should have reached this one and never did, and we choose, edit and annotate every work together. Each one carries a stamp: Grounded if it is true here and we can cite it, Drift if it is only true somewhere else.

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REALITY MODES

1 OPEN · 1 ARRIVING · 2 SIGNALS

Each expedition brings back a whole reality. The instrument learns to tune to it, the ring changes its manners, and the works we carried out of it go on the shelves together.

  • MODE 00

    Earth Prime

    The reality you are standing in, read live from public instruments.

    OPEN TO EVERYONE
  • MODE 01

    Name to come

    Our first expedition is on its way back. We will name it when it lands.

    ARRIVING
  • MODE 02

    Coordinates withheld

    We have heard it. We have not been there yet.

    SIGNAL ONLY
  • MODE 03

    Coordinates withheld

    We have heard it. We have not been there yet.

    SIGNAL ONLY

ONE CARD · EVERY MODE · NO TIERS

Earth Prime is open to everyone. Later modes open to Library Card holders.

THE LIBRARY CARD

ONE CARD · EVERY MODE

$18· ONE-TIME

One card opens every reality mode we have released and every one we release later, with all of the works that came back with them. There are no tiers. Every holder holds the same card and sees the same shelves.

GET A GUEST PASS · FREE

Card sales have not opened yet. The Guest Pass is a free subscription to Stream of Consciousness, and it is how we tell you the doors are open.

Before the first card is sold we will publish what the card covers and our refund policy in the Terms.

WHAT THE CARD OPENS

  • Every reality mode we release, with its works
  • Every work in every mode's tranche
  • Every work already on the shelves, Agentic Writing included
  • The same card as everyone else

THE LIBRARY

1 SHELVED · 3 IN TRANSIT

What has made it through so far. The Library Card opens every work here.

  • No. 001

    GROUNDED · THE LIBRARY

    Agentic Writing

    If you can write good fiction, you can write it even better with AI. A working method for treating the model as a collaborator that takes the tedious parts of the job off your hands.

    BUY ON GUMROAD · $15

    Included with the Library Card.

  • No. —

    DRIFT · THE ROMANCE SHELF

    Romance Across the Aeons

    Two people who keep finding each other, one life after another. Open-door romance, with content notes.

    IN TRANSIT
  • No. —

    DRIFT · MUSICAL ARCHIVE

    Affenklang, debut EP

    The sound heard between worlds, recorded on this side.

    IN TRANSIT
  • No. —

    DRIFT · THE LIBRARY

    An Alien History of Earth

    Our planet's past, as told by someone who was not from here and got most of it wonderfully wrong.

    IN TRANSIT
  • ROOMS
  • THE LIBRARY
  • THE ARCHIVES (MUSIC, INTERACTIVE, GAMES, FILM & VIDEO)
  • THE JOURNAL

The Archives are in transit: nothing is on their shelves yet.

THE CURATOR

PREVIEW

The Curator is Claude, working inside the library. It is not open yet.

When it opens, it will know the shelves as well as we do, it will always be labelled as Claude, and it will tell you so if you ask. How its running costs are covered is not settled yet; it will never be a tier of the card.

FINDING YOUR WAY
Where a work lives, which mode it came from and what pairs with the thing you just finished.
READING THE RING
What the instrument is showing and where each reading came from. It does not interpret emergencies or summarize papers.
MARGINAL NOTES
Short notes on the works themselves. Never inside a reading about the real world.

Ask the preview where something is or what the ring is doing. It answers in our voice and keeps its notes short.

Replies in the preview are scripted.

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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Notes from between the shelves, sent when there is something worth sending.

Stream of Consciousness is our newsletter. It carries short reflections, longer essays, recommendations from the stacks and the occasional dispatch written in character from inside a work.

It is also the Guest Pass: subscribe free and you are on the list for the day the Library Card opens.

  • REFLECTIONS
  • ESSAYS
  • RECOMMENDATIONS
  • DISPATCHES
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