Collateral · Reaching for Sandhi
Backstory
Before Rowan’s first day at Amalgamated, a world had retreated, enclosed itself, and begun the difficult work of recovery. Its unfinished arguments are still being lived.
Four companion essays about the history beneath Volume 1. Adapted from earlier writing for the world of Reaching for Sandhi.
The Retreat
When losing the coast became a crisis far inland.
Read the essay →The Sealed Enclaves
Protection preserved lives, institutions, and the ideas by which they were governed.
Read the essay →The Last Roundtable
Six intelligences met at the limits of the worlds they had learned to maintain.
Read the essay →A World in Recovery
What successful repair makes possible, and what it cannot decide for those who live with it.
Read the essay →