The Cold Perimeter

A Novel of Atmospheric Reconnaissance

Stationed at an decommissioned radar observatory along the 64th parallel, archivist David Miller discovers that intercepted signals from thirty years ago are matching today’s satellite positions with mathematical perfection.

The Cold Perimeter
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A Winter in Kyoto
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The Bureaucracy of Miracles
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The Cartographer of Lost Ships
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Notes on Subarctic Light
Literary
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The Cold Perimeter

Stationed at an decommissioned radar observatory along the 64th parallel, archivist David Miller discovers that intercepted signals from thirty years ago are matching today’s satellite positions with mathematical perfection.

A Winter in Kyoto
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A Winter in Kyoto

A suite of twelve quiet essays examining the geometry of night trains, temple eaves in heavy snowfall, and the peculiar dignity of eating alone in twenty-four-hour ramen stalls along the Kamo River.

The Bureaucracy of Miracles
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The Bureaucracy of Miracles

In an unnamed Central European capital, civil servants in Sub-Ministry 4 are tasked with cataloging events that violate Newtonian physics—not to investigate them, but to ensure they comply with local municipal tax codes.

The Cartographer of Lost Ships
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The Cartographer of Lost Ships

Following the trail of 19th-century naval surveyor Robert MacIntyre, who deliberately drew nonexistent shoals on nautical charts to prevent whaling vessels from entering sacred Hebridean sanctuaries.

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Author of three serials on modern cartography and psychological exile. Former maritime archivist based in Edinburgh.

"We do not travel to find landscapes, but to see what our silence looks like against unfamiliar stone."
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Short fiction writer and translator. Recipient of the Pacific Literary Fellowship. Writing on night transit and memory.

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