HOLOHAUS/DOWN BY THE RIVER TO PRAY/RECORDS

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an emissary vessel from the See of Delphi, learned lawyers and messengers of the Sun, descend to the garden habitat of Savannah to uncover the nature of a mysterious project that might change the very key of the song of humanity.


solarpunk, interplanetary civilization, alternate history, space habitat, artificial ecosystem, human speciation, speculative religion, speculative gender, uplifted animals, bureaucracy, noblebright, dialogue heavy, experimental dialogue


by: Amara Reyes

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>>Record 01


emelry draws up a list of the persons of interest in the workings of savannah, its scientists, planners, propagandists and fugitives, and considers the directions in which their secrets could extend


>>Record 02


preliminary interviews reveal tensions between the various actors, but cannot account for the strange energies beckoning from savannah’s interior


>>Record 03


savannah's architects host a gathering which gives emelry an opportunity to interview some of their most elusive members


>>Record 04


entering savannah, emerly's team is shown the grounds and the final, hidden party in their negotiations: the tengmu, whose childlike vision could bring conflict to the long-harmonious species of humanity


>>Record 05


the crew of the umihotaru weighs past failures of human ambition and comes to grasp the scope of that of the tengmu


>>Record 06


staking their position between the factions running Savannah and the entrenched positions of the Ecumene, Emelry pulls on an overlooked connection and crosses a risky threshold


>>Record 07


rogue at last, Emelry plunges fully into the physical and mental world of the tengmunnin and begins to glimpse a precarious path between the dogmas of the See and the void of independence, the hard-won unity of the Ecumene and a culture already fully its own


>>Record 08


Emelry helps the tengmu prepare to make contact with the outside world, while attempting to reconnect with her own crew and an increasingly panicked Anahit


>>Record 09


Emelry learns of the harsh justice of Quay and travels along the length of Savannah to the other tengmunnin settlement, Quarry