It’s springtime in the year 12,000…
And Tippi the pig has a full day ahead of her.
First, she’ll watch the cherry blossoms with her best friend Lina, a synthetic intelligence who’s made it 9,000 years without conversation partners, or a physical form.
Then, she’ll eat some turnips, and perhaps check in with her other best pal Xoz, who happens to be a 1,000-pound octopus bred for microgravity warfare.
Sure, the trio lives in a cave under the Delaware Water Gap, and humanity went extinct centuries ago, but that never stopped the roommates from having a good time.
Join comedy writer Cyriaque Lamar (io9, Cracked) and illustrator Xiaoling Li for the first book in a sci-fi trilogy about the importance of friendship, in the face of an incomprehensible universe.
New chapters, every Tuesday
- Epigraph (1/28/25)
- Chapter 1 – 9,000 Years Awaiting Company (1/28/25)
- Chapter 2 – The Jupiter Gasthaus (2/4/25)
- Chapter 3 – A Lucky Puddle (2/11/25)
- Chapter 4 – Apex Predators of the Ordovician (2/18/25)
- Chapter 5 – A Tolerable Purgatory (2/25/25)
- Chapter 6 – A Fire At Peak Lethal (3/4/25)
- Chapter 7 – Sisters (3/11/25)
- 1st Day Outside (3/18/25)
- Chapter 8 – Where The River Rends The Mountain (3/25/25)
- Chapter 9 – bumps: bumps (4/1/25)
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