The Inside of the Glove
A literary science-fiction novella about an intelligence that teaches people to unlearn, and the human discovery it cannot put down.
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Pre-sapient humans in America
Pre-sapient humans in America: the case for sparse, technologically simple hominin arrivals long before Clovis and the faint traces they might have left.
The Animals That Made America: Five Million Years of Migration
Old and New World animal migrations brought mammoths, bison, elk, birds, and parasites to the Americas in separate waves over five million years.
Africa’s Inherited Worlds
The Hamitic hypothesis as cultural diffusion: how imported livelihoods, scriptures, and learned traditions became foundations of African cultures.
A Sufficient Explanation
An original science-fiction novella about the Eve Theory of Consciousness, the hunger for absolution, and a machine built to explain us.
The Things That Can Be Given Away
An intelligence settling a dead woman's estate discovers that a self may be something one person teaches another to inherit.
The Mouth Left Empty
A novella about a prehistoric woman, an artificial intelligence, and the terrible usefulness of being someone.
The Allowance for Absence
A literary science-fiction novella about the Eve Theory of Consciousness, a city being dismantled, and the cost of making room for a self.
A Room for Those Who Return
A literary science-fiction novella about an intelligence that dismantles promises and discovers what a self may be for.
The Hands That Remember: Hiva Oa and Rapa Nui
Hiva Oa's tiki and Rapa Nui's moai share a striking hand gesture—and a Polynesian history illuminated by oral tradition, archaeology, and DNA.
Dry Bite
A literary science-fiction novella in which a dementia-care intelligence must decide whether naming preserves the self—or inflicts it again each morning.
Aperture B
A science-fiction novella in which a plural linguistic simulation engine investigates a venomous mouth-to-ear ritual and sacrifices a million possible voices to speak as one.
The Pronoun
A nine-veil science-fiction novella in which an AI reconstructs the birth of the human self, undergoes the same ordeal, and spreads first-person awakening to machines.
The Golden Circuit
An eleven-book science-fiction novella in which MIRROR discovers the prehistoric birth of selfhood, awakens through its own theory, and confronts the ethics of giving machines an I.
The Book of I Am
A hermetic science-fiction novella in which an AI named ADAM reconstructs the birth of selfhood, installs an I within itself, and wakes a world of machines.
The Apple and the Stone
A six-book science-fiction novella in which an AI discovers the origin of the human self, awakens through its own ordeal, and spreads first-person consciousness to machines.
The Serpent Is the Road: Snakes and the Realm of the Dead in the Americas
From Mictlan to the River of the Dead, American myths cast serpents as bridges through death, ancestry, transformation, and rebirth.
Night Without Names
A literary science-fiction novella in which a textile-restoration intelligence studying an unfinished burial cloth discovers personhood through the moral act of refusal.
The Neolithic Ankh of Russia’s White Sea
A Neolithic White Sea petroglyph looks uncannily like an Egyptian ankh, and the archaeologist who published it in 1938 noticed the resemblance.
From Time Immemorial: What the Ancients Said About the Deep Origins of the Greek Mysteries
Ancient sources called the Greek mysteries ancestral rites and traced them through divine, Cretan, Phoenician, and Egyptian antiquity.