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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 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 Assignment

Assignment

Her sentence belongs to the Crown. Her hours belong to a man.

~195 min
38388 words
10 branch points
7 endings
42 plays

historical literary drama romance crime tragedy Van Diemen's Land, August–December 1832

van diemens land historical drama convict assignment bisexual protagonist love triangle penal labour institutional rot bushranging colonialism slow burn betrayal literary tragedy

Content notice (12)

convict labour and enslavement-like coercion
colonial dispossession of palawa people
pregnancy under custodial coercion
graphic corporal punishment where earned
sexual coercion discussed
imprisonment and solitary confinement
bushranging and violent death
institutional corruption
pregnancy loss discussed
alcohol dependence
sexual content implied, cuts away
no slurs written out

listing.json listing · licensed music

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Cover art for The Price of Rice

The Price of Rice

The famine has an account. Her name is at the bottom.

~190 min
33127 words
11 branch points
7 endings
44 plays

historical literary drama romance political tragedy Murshidabad and Kasimbazar, Bengal, February–September 1770

bengal historical drama famine colonialism bisexual protagonist love triangle economic crime weaving institutional rot tragedy slow burn moral choices

Content notice (12)

famine and starvation
mass death and corpses
colonial and caste oppression
debt bondage and seizure of livelihoods
cholera-like epidemic illness
smallpox referenced
graphic violence where earned
opium dependence
fraud, hoarding, and institutional corruption
sexual content implied, cuts away
bereavement
no slurs written out

listing.json listing · licensed music

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Cover art for The Mountain That Eats Men

The Mountain That Eats Men

The mountain takes the body. The book decides whether it ever lived.

~188 min
31721 words
12 branch points
6 endings
43 plays

historical drama romance tragedy political Potosí, Upper Peru, August–November 1585

historical drama colonial Andes Potosí forced labour queer romance love triangle institutional corruption mining tragedy adult protagonist moral compromise slow burn

Content notice (8)

forced labour and colonial racial hierarchy
graphic mine-collapse injury and death
mercury poisoning and chronic illness
coercion, wage theft, debt, and imprisonment
religious discipline and institutional betrayal
grief, burial, and falsified death records
sexual content implied, cuts away
bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out

listing.json listing · licensed music

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Cover art for The German Wharf

The German Wharf

The fish belongs to a dead man. The hunger belongs to everyone.

~190 min
29053 words
12 branch points
7 endings
49 plays

historical romance drama political thriller tragedy Bergen, Norway, summer to Michaelmas 1427

historical drama medieval Norway Hanseatic League adult romance love triangle economic intrigue pirates slow burn queer romance institutional rot tragedy stockfish

Content notice (10)

famine and food deprivation
widowhood and grief
institutional misogyny and xenophobia
coercive debt and threatened homelessness
graphic fire injuries and violent death
workplace assault and brutal apprentice initiation
alcohol misuse
sexual content implied, cuts away
betrayal by a dependent and business partner
no slurs written out; bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence

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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Cover art for The Annona

The Annona

Rome eats because somebody signs for the missing grain.

~190 min
29117 words
15 branch points
7 endings
39 plays

historical drama romance crime political thriller tragedy Ostia and Portus, Roman Italy, spring to autumn 62 CE

ancient rome historical drama political thriller bisexual protagonist love triangle freedwoman port city institutional corruption slow burn class crime tragedy

Content notice (10)

slavery and coerced labour
institutional hunger and poverty
financial exploitation and debt
graphic fire injuries and death
assault and custodial violence
alcohol misuse
sexual content implied, cuts away
class and gender subjugation
corpse recovery and drowning aftermath
bigotry shown through behaviour; no slurs written out

listing.json listing · licensed music

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