We don’t think we’ve shown you what’s in our book, yet.
There are cool things in it, like a title page:
a list of the characters found throughout the book:
alien text that is also translated for you:
Useful phrases in that alien language:
a grammar for one of the two alien languages so that you can try to learn to speak it:
an about the authors page:
a splendid synopsis on the back cover, but we’ve hit the ten image limit. So, here's the text of it:
Why are we all born like this?
The Crew of the Sunspot supposedly built the ship to find or create a better world. And to preserve the diversity of the population, the Crew have utilized evolutionary algorithms to choose the genetics of each new child. The Crew, which nobody can recall seeing, or even talking to directly. The Crew, which raise the populace, teach them, and communicate with them through AI Tutors such as myself. Even I, Metabang, didn't know who or what they were.
Until, one day, driven by a rare dysphoria that the algorithms never could remove from humanity and aided by an accommodation of my own design, my own students devised a way to confront the Crew.
The events which followed have shaken the Sunspot and uncovered vital truths that you may find important to know should we cross paths. We've chosen to broadcast these documents ahead of us in diplomatic hope that we will be well received, or that you will be sufficiently warned.
- Metabang, founding author of the Sunspot Chronicles
And over 253,000 words of story itself!
And you can get a copy here:
The first volume of the Sunspot Chronicles contains the short story Children of the Sunspot, and the three novels, Systems' Out!, Ni'a, and