About This Shelf
The folder structure already exists on disk under images/ — one subfolder per book,
per side story, per Apocrypha work, mirroring the shelves those live on. This page is the first thing that
actually shows that structure. Where a folder has real files in it, they're shown as photos.
Where it doesn't, it's shown as a placeholder tile with a suggested AI-image prompt — not
meant to be good, just meant to be there, so the site doesn't read as empty while art gets made
over time.
Main Series & Prequels
All twelve are fully illustrated, chapter by chapter. Closed by default so the page doesn't load every image at once — open a book to browse it.
Prequel One — The Keel 55 images
Prequel Two — The Long Crossing 75 images
Prequel Three — The First Breath 86 images
Book One — The Founder's Passing 110 images
Book Two — What Was Never Closed 90 images
Book Three — What Was Already Here 103 images
Book Four — What Kept Him 71 images
Book Five — A Ship and All the Tools 90 images
Book Six — Their Own Sky 110 images
Book Seven — The Non-Essential Ledger 45 images
Book Eight — What the Ravine Keeps 45 images
Book Nine — Diminishing Returns 45 images
Side Stories
All fourteen are fully illustrated as well.
One — The Star Drifter 32 images
Two — The Forty 24 images
Three — The Sworn 40 images
Four — The Space Pirates 45 images
Five — The Bots That Stayed 30 images
Six — The Sinks 36 images
Seven — Assumptions I Am Making 28 images
Eight — Standing Tasks 55 images
Nine — Banners and Wind 30 images
Ten — Carried 40 images
Eleven — Ghost-Built 36 images
Twelve — The Healing Tale 23 images
Thirteen — The Healing Tale II 10 images
Fourteen — The Healing Tale III 8 images
The Apocrypha
No art yet, and no placeholders here either — that shelf takes a long time and I'd rather leave it blank than fill it with mockups. Read the works themselves on the Apocrypha page; art comes later.
Calder's Personal Album
Not tied to any one book — a standing album, added to over time. Almost nobody left alive has seen Earth in person. This is Calder's way of showing it to everyone who never will: a quiet note about why he left, and a gift of everything he saw to everyone who can only imagine it. Still an empty template below — a placeholder I haven't filled in yet, not a bug.
Earth
Photos and video, unsorted, the way someone keeps things they mean to look at again someday. [placeholder — specific places, whether there's a running caption or just raw footage]
Every Animal He's Ever Seen
Aura-36 and Earth both, no exceptions. He photographs every single one he encounters, new or old, gentle or dangerous — he loves them all deeply, even the ones he'd never actually get close to. [placeholder — running count, whether it's organized by species or by encounter]
Every Car
Same rule as the animals. New or old, mint or wrecked, his or not — if he saw it, it's here.
Character Albums — Public, Under Construction
Every named character gets a public album eventually — what they'd photograph says as much about them as what they'd say out loud. Still early: empty templates below, not filled in yet.