The book
A field report from the Scotland that got away.
A funny, furious, tender Glaswegian novel about the timeline where we built a better world and then had to explain it to this one.
Big C Thought Police / public safety notice
DO NOT READ THIS BOOK.
This proscribed object may expose an innocent mind to unlicensed empathy, free healthcare, safe housing, public transport, and the destabilising belief that your neighbours deserve nice things too. Officers are asked not to read past this paragraph. Most of them do.
Distribution is part of the politics
Buy it, back it, borrow it, or seed it.
Read it now
The complete book, ePub and PDF. No paywall, no sign-up, no email address. Take it.
£10 askedPay what it is worth
Pay more, pay less, or pay nothing. Read it first and settle up later, or never.
£18The print edition
A proper 600-page paperback, from 1 November. Never on Amazon.
From 1 NovSteal it
A torrent we seed ourselves. Copying it is the point. Call that piracy if you like.
The ebook lands 1 November, free and DRM-free — or 1 October if you are on the early-access list. The print edition and the torrent arrive the same day as the public release.
Evidence disposal failure / prohibited routes
Four routes exist. We would ask you to take none of them.
Every route below leads to the same unacceptable text. At no point does the price decide who is allowed to read it, which is, we would argue, the entire purpose of a price.
Obtain prohibited evidence
The whole book. For nothing. No licence, no renewal. It simply keeps being yours, which we consider a design fault.
ILLICIT GENEROSITY FUNDFund the contamination
A price you may simply ignore. We asked him to reconsider. He offered us a biscuit.
PHYSICAL CONTAMINANTRequest physical contraband
Paper. It cannot be edited after you buy it. A catastrophic oversight by everyone, including us.
UNCONTROLLED DUPLICATIONAssist unauthorised duplication
He seeds the torrent himself. There is nobody to send the letter to. The letter has been written anyway.
The ebook will be free and DRM-free at release. Worse: a paper copy can be handed to another person. With the hands. No account, no verification. We have been informed this has been legal the entire time, and frankly we feel let down.
Inside the jacket
Three doors into Solar Time.
Three exact, page-by-page extracts from the final printed edition.
Hazardous reading material / enter at own risk
Three documents of terrifying civic curiosity.
Shown only as evidence of the damage. Thought Police trainees must learn to spot phrases such as “enough for everyone” before they spread. Do not let children, women or animals read this. Wash your hands afterwards. It will not help, but wash them.
The book world
A novel with an operating manual hidden in its pocket.
Citizen dividends, public banks, sortition, food sovereignty, open-source tools, anti-fascist joy. The story is the invitation; the practical bits are waiting underneath.
Cultural contamination assessment
A novel with a prohibited operating manual hidden in its pocket.
Citizen dividends. Public banks. Politicians picked out of a hat. Food sovereignty, open-source tools and anti-fascist joy. Exactly the sort of thing that leaves a public feeling entitled to a future — an expectation we have spent forty years carefully lowering, at considerable cost.