First Entry Point
All the Times
That Never Were
The threshold text. Ground zero in the ontological order of the universe — not a prequel, not a sampler, but the book that tunes the receiver before the signal arrives.
A Depression-era journalist arrives at a traveling circus to write a story. What he finds is a man who has been through time and come back without the wanting apparatus that made the going feel necessary. The movement is in perception — in the gradual exposure of the assumptions that make perception possible.
The mask. The seam. What remains when the seam is found.
Second Entry Point
Mythologos
Celerium
The swift dissolution. What civilizations are built to avoid and what happens when the avoiding stops — told across three periods of time and one frequency that runs through all of them.
An Institute builds a machine to reach a territory described in eight Depression-era notebooks. A government acquires the machine. Two archaeologists, twelve hundred years later, excavate what remains. Eleven survivors move through the flat land doing what the landscape requires.
If you have read All the Times That Never Were, you will recognize certain things here before you understand what you are recognizing. That is the correct order of events.