On September 27, 2020, we published our debut novel, SYSTEMS’ OUT!, right here on this website as a webserial. You can still find it at the top of the list of books to read in the table of contents in the sidebar. After its sequels were written, we sent it to print as part of Volume 1 of the Sunspot Chronicles through lulu.com. And, not long ago, we put that volume (all three books) up as an e-pub available for download from this webpage. You can buy it in that format from lulu.com, too, but we recommend just clicking that link right there.
Well, today, we’re giving you SYSTEMS’ OUT! as an epub on its own! That way, if you just want this one book for any particular reason, and know that when you get to the end of it, you’ve really reached the end of it, it’s here for you.
It’s a quick little read, and one we’re still extremely proud of. It will always be a great introduction to our writing, our world, and who we are.
The systems are out!
What if you could step outside of your body and look back at who you really are?
What if you found that you weren’t alone?
What if you knew you’d never been alone in your own brain, and you’ve always shared your body with a whole group of other people, only you had to take turns?
What if you were given the key to living a full life in parallel with your headmates, your system members? What would you do?
The Pembers and the Flits are both pluralities, systems, living aboard the Sunspot, a generational starship full of an extremely diverse people. And the secluded, technocratic Crew, who no one has ever seen in person, have decided to let them experiment with a newly modified technology that will allow them to do just that. All of that. Live fully in parallel with each other, while also maintaining that psychic contact they’ve always had. And to discover who they really are in the process.
The old construction nanites that were used to create the ship in the first place have been reconfigured to function as a new and improved neural terminal that vastly improves the bandwidth for connecting consciousnesses to the Network. And everyone is excited about the possibilities.
Only, someone, somehow, has added some functionality that wasn’t asked for. And the results threaten to overturn everything, even, possibly, destroy the Sunspot itself, if people aren’t careful.
Which leaves one last very important question: Why?