diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md index 0a7680c..c789b72 100644 --- a/content/_index.md +++ b/content/_index.md @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@ -*Marsh* is a new project by Madison Rye Progress set within the [Post-Self](https://post-self.ink) universe. It was successfully funded by a Kickstarter! Feel free to read about that process [here](/kickstarter) - -[![Banner](/draft-banner.jpg)](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drabmakyo/marsh) +![Banner](/front.png)

Pre-order ebook Pre-order paperback @@ -8,24 +6,21 @@ ----- -> “I am seeing quiet chaos. I am seeing most of my sims emptying out. The ones that are not empty, however, remain dreadfully quiet. Most of those who are out and about have set up over themselves cones of silence. Those who have not, though, are decidedly not quiet. More than one silence has been broken by weeping and wailing.” -Marsh +New Year's Eve, 2399, and Lagrange is celebrating centuries of relative peace. Life has been, by and large, good for those who chose to upload their consciousnesses. They mark milestones, fall in and out of love, dwell in peace. They fork, copying themselves for specific tasks or to go live separate lives. Memories pile up as they carry on. -New Year's Eve, 2399, and Lagrange is celebrating almost three centuries of relative peace. Yes, there have been surprises, there has been drama and political intrigue, but life has, by and large, been quite good for those who have chosen to upload their consciousnesses. The celebrate birthdays and anniversaries. They fall in and out of love. They fork, creating copies of themselves to accomplish tasks or live out their own independent lives. Their memories build up and up forever within them. +And then everything grinds to a halt. -2.3 trillion souls gather in quiet homes, in bars and restaurants, in parks and along prosaic main streets, and count down seconds to the new century. +One year, one month, and eleven days have gone missing...and so has one percent of the population of Lagrange. 23 billion souls lost. -And then, without warning, everything comes grinding to a halt. The internal clock of the System hits one second before midnight, December 31, 2399, and then it hits midnight, February 11, 2401. One year, one month, and eleven days have gone missing. +*Marsh* is a new novel in the Post-Self universe, following Reed and the rest of his cocladists, fellow instances forked from the original uploaded mind of Marsh, as they strive to discover what has happened and where Marsh has gone, rendering them unmoored: five unconnected instances with no root to connect them. -And so has one percent of the population of Lagrange. 23 billion souls lost. - -Marsh is a new novel in the Post-Self universe, following Reed and the rest of his cocladists, fellow instances forked from the original uploaded mind of Marsh, as they strive to discover what has happened and where Marsh has gone, rendering them unmoored, five unconnected instances with no root to connect them. - -What happened? A crash? Where has time gone? Where have those billions of minds gone? And why is Earth being so cagey? +Includes stories by Samantha Yule Fireheart, Michael Miele, Caela Argent, Andréa C. Mason, Thomas "Faux" Steele, Nathan Mcardle-Mott-Merrifield, Sarah Bloden, and Krzsyztof "Tomash" Drewniak. ----- -***Coming mid-2024*** but you can read a snippet [here](/preview)! +*Marsh* is a new project by Madison Rye Progress set within the [Post-Self](https://post-self.ink) universe. It was successfully funded by a Kickstarter! Feel free to read about that process [here](/kickstarter). + +***Coming Spring 2025*** but you can read a snippet [here](/preview)! ----- diff --git a/static/front.png b/static/front.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86ec796 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/front.png differ