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Netwrck library novels are complete, playable scripts at different stages of production: all 64 library novels have generated cover art; 57 novels play licensed music credited in the build and the other 7 are silent. Fork one and the art, music and voice tools in the editor fill in the rest. Author-published novels carry whatever their author gave them, and each card states its own art, audio and content notice below.

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Cover art for The Ninth Hearth

The Ninth Hearth

The fire saint's contract expired. Forty thousand homes did not.

~60 min
5479 words
11 branch points
4 endings
37 plays

literary fantasy adult drama political drama romance Anselm, an invented second-world river city, winter 2027

fantasy adult drama municipal fantasy labour queer romance winter fire saint politics branching moral ambiguity

Content notice (8)

coerced magical labour
cold exposure and threatened deaths
class inequality
institutional deception
strike conflict
adult relationship tension
sex implied and cuts away
no slurs written out

listing.json listing · no audio

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Cover art for The Locomotive Works

The Locomotive Works

She certifies what the works can do. The sale decides what those words mean.

~180 min
12392 words
9 branch points
5 endings
54 plays

literary fiction industrial drama political drama Veyra, Republic of Orsava, January to October 1997

adult drama industrial drama political fiction workplace privatisation labour moral ambiguity post-socialist slow burn economic coercion literary fiction

Content notice (8)

economic coercion and wage theft
unemployment and threatened poverty
political and corporate corruption
labour conflict and strikebreaking
a nonfatal industrial crush injury
alcohol and tobacco use
sexual content implied, cuts away
class prejudice and xenophobia shown through behaviour; no slurs written out

listing.json listing · licensed music

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Cover art for The Tally Room

The Tally Room

Every ruling is defensible. Together they choose a member of parliament.

~200 min
31412 words
14 branch points
7 endings
51 plays

literary fiction political drama romance procedural tragedy the Division of Carrigan Bight, four days of September, present day

political drama adult drama procedural electoral fraud small town estranged siblings second chance romance institutional rot slow burn moral ambiguity class literary fiction

Content notice (10)

political corruption and clientelism
workplace prosecution and public disgrace
estrangement and family rupture
poverty, unemployment and rationed healthcare
a death from a delayed medical procedure, recalled
alcohol use
intimidation and doxxing of an official
sexual content implied, cuts away
violence where earned
bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out

listing.json listing · licensed music

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Cover art for The Second Shift

The Second Shift

The dead took their jobs. Nobody asked the dead.

~198 min
33941 words
14 branch points
7 endings
45 plays

industrial fantasy political drama romance tragedy Kesselgrad, Republic of Veyra, Smeltmonth 219 After Concord

industrial fantasy adult drama labour struggle necromantic industry love triangle strike institutional rot grief body politics slow burn working class tragedy

Content notice (9)

industrial disaster and graphic injury
death, corpses and coerced postmortem labour
body desecration and loss of bodily autonomy
grief and death of a spouse
exploitative contracts, poverty and institutional corruption
addiction to pain medicine shown through consequence
sexual content implied, cuts away
violence may be graphic where earned
bigotry by class and legal status shown through behaviour; no slurs written out

listing.json listing · licensed music

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Cover art for The Rain Tithe

The Rain Tithe

Every green field has a drought with a name.

~195 min
37183 words
14 branch points
7 endings
47 plays

literary fantasy political drama romance tragedy Sarranth highlands and Beruz, 318 Basin Reckoning; second-world canal age

second world climate fantasy adult drama water politics love triangle class war institutional rot family betrayal famine slow burn tragedy

Content notice (12)

engineered drought and famine
class violence and forced migration
graphic riot injury
death from magical overwork
hearing loss and fever
dependence and withdrawal involving a fictional fever tincture
institutional corruption
imprisonment and coerced informing
sexual content implied, cuts away
family betrayal
food insecurity
bigotry shown through behavior and consequence; no slurs written out

listing.json listing · licensed music

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Cover art for The Reconstruction

The Reconstruction

In Naples, every ruined house is worth something to the wrong person.

~190 min
36467 words
14 branch points
7 endings
43 plays

historical crime romance political drama tragedy Naples, February to July 1982

naples 1980s historical drama crime political corruption adult romance love triangle family betrayal earthquake aftermath institutional rot slow burn tragedy

Content notice (10)

earthquake trauma and child deaths referenced
building collapse and graphic injury
organized crime and intimidation
heroin addiction, overdose, and withdrawal
domestic coercion
institutional corruption
arson and death
sexual content implied, cuts away
religious conflict
forced displacement and witness exile

listing.json listing · licensed music

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Cover art for The Long Market

The Long Market

An army can conquer a market. First it has to count it.

~188 min
29686 words
13 branch points
7 endings
44 plays

historical political drama romance tragedy Tlatelolco and Tenochtitlan, 1473 CE

mexica tlatelolco historical drama adult romance love triangle merchant spies market law war tribute slow burn institutional tragedy political intrigue

Content notice (10)

war and civic conquest
graphic violence and battlefield injury
human sacrifice as state ritual
death of a spouse discussed
debt-slavery and threatened sale
coercion, blackmail and institutional corruption
sexual content implied, cuts away
grief and survivor guilt
food insecurity
bigotry by class and city shown through behaviour; no slurs written out

listing.json listing · licensed music

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