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# The Post-Self Cycle
* Given the chance to live forever in a world not built for death, what do you do?
* Given the inability to forget---all your joys and sorrows, all your foundational memories and traumas---how do you cope?
* Given the ability to create a full copy of yourself---down to every single one of those memories---to do as they will, to individuate and live out their own forever lives, or merge back down and meld their memories with your own, what paths do you take?
## [Book I --- Qoheleth](https://qoheleth.post-self.ink)
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[![Qoheleth](/img/qoheleth.png)](https://qoheleth.post-self.ink)
## The Post-Self Cycle
> "All artists search. I search for stories, in this post-self age. What happens when you can no longer call yourself an individual, when you have split your sense of self among several instances? How do you react? Do you withdraw into yourself, become a hermit? Do you expand until you lose all sense of identity? Do you fragment? Do you go about it deliberately, or do you let nature and chance take their course?"
[![The book covers](/img/covers.png)](/cycle)
With immersive technology at its peak, it's all too easy to get lost. When RJ loses emself in that virtual world, not only must ey find eir way out, but find all the answers ey can along the way.
> And thus grew a new world, a world that was not built for death...
And, nearly a century on, society still struggles with the ramifications of those answers.
From the very beginning of the consensual dream of the System, the members of the Ode clade, all forks from the same core personality, have dealt with fear each in their own way. Do they search for greater ways to control their lives? Do they hunt for yet deeper emotional connection? Do they hone their art to the finest point?
Features the bonus novella *Gallery Exhibition: A Love Story*.
From roots in political turmoil to the building of a new society, the story is there to be found, and the Bălan clade is there to tell it.
## [Book II --- Toledot](https://toledot.post-self.ink)
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[![Toledot](/img/toledot.png)](https://toledot.post-self.ink)
## Clade
> *"I am saying that you trust me — really trust me — and that life in the System is more subtle than I think you know. You let me into your dreams, my dear, and your dreams influence this place as much as, if not more than, your waking mind."*
No longer bound to the physical, what lengths should one go to in a virtual world to ensure the continuity of one's existence?
Secession. Launch. Two separations from two societies, two hundred years apart. And through it all, so many parallels run on so many levels that it can be dizzying just keeping up. The more Ioan and Codrin Bălan learn, the more it calls into question the motivations of even those they hold most dear.
## [Book III --- Nevi'im](https://neviim.post-self.ink)
[![Nevi'im](/img/neviim.png)](https://neviim.post-self.ink)
> *"Do you know how old I am, Dr. Brahe? I am 222 years old, a fork of an individual who is...who would be 259 years old. I am no longer the True Name of 2124. Even remembering her feels like remembering an old friend. I remember her perfectly, and yet I do not remember how to be earnest. I do not know how to simply **be**."*
The cracks are showing.
Someone picked up on the broadcast from the Dreamer Module and as the powers that be rush to organize a meeting between races, Dr. Tycho Brahe is caught up in a whirlwind of activity. And as always, when the drama goes down, there is Codrin Bălan to witness it.
When faced with eternity in a new kind of digital world, however, old traumas come to roost, and those who were once powerful are brought to their knees
Growth is colliding with memory, and the cracks are showing.
## [Book IV --- Mitzvot](https://mitzvot.post-self.ink)
[![Mitzvot](/img/mitzvot.png)](https://mitzvot.post-self.ink)
> *"To be built to love is to be built to dissolve. It is to be built to unbecome. It is to have the sole purpose of falling apart all in the name of someone else."*
Even the grandest of stories can feel small and immediate when it's just one person's life.
One of the most well-known names from one of the most well-known clades on the System, the avatar of political machinations and cool confidence, has been brought low. With help coming only from Ioan Bălan and the most grudging of support from her cocladists, all True Name has left to save herself is the ability to change.
> *Coming early 2023*
# Other works
## [Clade --- A Post-Self Anthology](https://clade.post-self.ink)
[![Clade](/img/clade.png)](https://clade.post-self.ink)
[![The book cover](/img/clade.png)](https://clade.post-self.ink)
> **Clade** *(n)* – /klɛ:id/ – *post-self theory*
> A group of individuals patterned off a single root consciousness, formed through branching expansion of the forking of its constituent members.
> *See also: cladistics, cocladist, up-/down-/cross-tree instance, forking, post-self theory.*
> — The System Central Library Encyclopedia
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> To split oneself among however many individuals, to let the mind drift and diverge, to feel the world from points of view not your own, and then let those memories crash down into you…well, it inspires a feeling best described as ‘heady’, to say the least.
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> *Coming early 2023*
To split oneself among however many individuals, to let the mind drift and diverge, to feel the world from points of view not your own, and then let those memories crash down into you...well, it inspires a feeling best described as 'heady', to say the least. An extra funded by the *Mitzvot* Kickstarter backers.
*Coming mid 2023*
## About
The Post-Self universe is an open setting for exploring the ramifications of being able to create copies of oneself, of what it means to undergo individuation, of what it means to let memories build up and up and up within oneself. All of the information on working with the universe is contained within this appendex, an extra funded by the *Mitzvot* Kickstarter backers.
* [Timeline](/about/timeline)
* [Dramatic Personae](/about/characters)
* [The Universe](/about/universe)
As an open setting, everything is free to use for your own purposes under a Creative-Commons 4.0 Attribution license. These stories wouldn't be what they are without the contributions of others.
## Extras
### The Post-Self TTRPG
[![The book cover](/img/ttrpg.png)](/extras/ttrpg)
A tabletop role-playing game powered by The Apocalypse, an extra funded by the *Mitzvot* Kickstarter backers.
*Coming soon!*
### Extra Stories
*Coming soon!*
### The Post-Anthropocene
An audio essay based on the open podcast "The Anthropocene", an extra funded by the *Mitzvot* Kickstarter backers.
*Coming soon!*
### Gallery
Over the course of publication and as funded by the backers of the *Mitzvot* Kickstarter, much in the way of art surrounding the Post-Self universe and its character has accrued. You can see a full gallery of all illustrations [here](/gallery).