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    24 complete books available. Book 25: 4 of 20 chapters available.

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    The next ten adventures. Each moves into the reading collection when its first chapters are published.

    A Place Beside the River — Book 26 cover
    Book 26

    A Place Beside the River

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    An encounter with a newly discovered nonhuman civilisation draws Tempest into a valley whose life cycle runs at a different rate from the surrounding world.

    The Second Planting — Book 27 cover
    Book 27

    The Second Planting

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    An alien valley blooms with vegetation from several extinct geological ages.

    The Third Signature — Book 28 cover
    Book 28

    The Third Signature

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    An ancient signal summons three independent travellers to the same moon in different centuries.

    The Last Winter Broadcast — Book 29 cover
    Book 29

    The Last Winter Broadcast

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    A winter radio transmission describes events that have not happened yet.

    The Emerald Supper — Book 30 cover
    Book 30

    The Emerald Supper

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    At a supper on a distant world, each guest remembers a different version of the evening.

    The Lake We Made — Book 31 cover
    Book 31

    The Lake We Made

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    A city appears beneath a lake whenever its surface freezes.

    The Future They Chose — Book 32 cover
    Book 32

    The Future They Chose

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    A model of an imagined future begins casting a real city's shadow across contemporary Earth.

    The Boat Beneath Byzantium — Book 33 cover
    Book 33

    The Boat Beneath Byzantium

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    Beneath Byzantine waters lies a vessel older than the civilisation above it and younger than Tempest.

    Book 34 cover
    Book 34

    The Steps We Take

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    At a dance, Raven discovers that one doorway opens onto the same room a century later.

    After the Opening Ceremony — Book 35 cover
    Book 35

    After the Opening Ceremony

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    An empty theatre speaks in the voices of people who have not yet died.

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