It’s springtime in the year 12,000…

And Tippi the teacup hypermini 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 mollusk bred for microgravity warfare.

Sure, the trio lives in a cave under the Delaware Water Gap, and civilization ended centuries ago, but that never stopped them from having a good time.

Join 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.

One chapter left!

• Epigraph
• Prologue – The Last Cackle
• Chapter 1 – Tithes for Inhalants
• Chapter 2 – The Jupiter Gasthaus
• Chapter 3 – A Lucky Puddle
• Chapter 4 – Theistic Seasoning
• Chapter 5 – A Tolerable Purgatory
• Chapter 6 – Like A Fire At Peak Lethal
• Chapter 7 – Sisters
• 1st Day Outside
• Chapter 8 – Whark!
• Chapter 9 – bumps: bumps
• 2nd Day Outside
• Chapter 10 – A Most Exclusive Apocalypse
• Chapter 11 – Hunk Pox
• Chapter 12 – Ticked Down Turbo
• Chapter 13 – The Rest of Mes
• Chapter 14 – Schwesterherz
• 3rd Day Outside
• Chapter 15 – Leviathan
• Chapter 16 – All Physics
• Chapter 17 – Odd Little Seedpod
• Chapter 18 – Children of The Clench
• Chapter 19 – Utica Elites
• Chapter 20 – Shots
• Chapter 21 – Gyri and Sulci
• Chapter 22 – Go Max Mean
• Chapter 23 – The Distraction Factory
• Chapter 24 – Hot Dog Ex Machina (coming Winter 2026)

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