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A speculative cycle

Between Two Dawns — a work in fiction, in progress

Three hundred years into the past. Two thousand years into the future. The long bridge between — written in the long quiet of 2020, released here one chapter at a time.

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An origin note

This is not a book I set out to write. It is the book that arrived when there was very little else to do.

During the long quiet of 2020, when the usual scaffolding of work and travel and meetings fell away, something else began to come through. I would sit down each morning and the chapters would simply arrive, almost faster than I could write them down.

I cannot honestly say I wrote this book. I can say I was the instrument it passed through.

The shape of it surprised me. It runs three hundred years backward — to the dawn of humanity, told as it might actually have happened. And it runs two thousand years forward — into the long after, where many of the problems we are tangled in today have quietly been solved. The middle is a bridge: short pieces about the present, read from a future vantage point, as if our own century is being remembered.

Some of it reads as memory. Some of it reads as prophecy. I no longer know which is which. I am putting it down here one chapter at a time — partly to share it, partly because a book that wants to exist should be allowed to.

Vinay, Delhi, May 2026
The Architecture

Sixteen chapters, in three movements.

One chapter is released each month. The first lands in June 2026. The rest will arrive in order.

I

The Long Before

Reaching back into the deep past — the dawn of humanity, told as it might have actually happened.
Movement I six chapters
i. June 2026 The Night Before the First Word Available
ii. July 2026 What the Fire Was For Forthcoming
iii. August 2026 The Animal That Began to Wonder Forthcoming
iv. September 2026 The First Grief, and What It Made Forthcoming
v. October 2026 The Invention of Tomorrow Forthcoming
vi. November 2026 The Day Someone Drew a God Forthcoming
II

The Bridge

Short dispatches about the present — read backward, from a future that has already lived through it.
Movement II four chapters
vii. December 2026 A Letter About the Twenty-First Century, Written in the Forty-First Forthcoming
viii. January 2027 How Work Stopped Being a Place Forthcoming
ix. February 2027 The Year We Realised the Climate Was Listening Forthcoming
x. March 2027 The Quiet End of the Nation-State Forthcoming
III

The Long After

Two thousand years on. A world where many of our present knots are no longer puzzles — they are history.
Movement III six chapters
xi. April 2027 The Council of Things That Think Forthcoming
xii. May 2027 What Money Became Forthcoming
xiii. June 2027 The First Child Born Off-World Forthcoming
xiv. July 2027 How Grief Was Re-learned Forthcoming
xv. August 2027 The Day the Last Loneliness Ended Forthcoming
xvi. September 2027 A Second Dawn Forthcoming
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