The Limbo Chronologies

Hello again Reader, So, the first block of Book two is out! Poor Jaques, he’s been through a lot hasn’t he? He really isn’t suited for all this action. I hope I don’t put him into more situations that he’s not made for… I say as I laugh maniacally at the pain in store for poor old Jaques. I kid. But for real, the tone of the Limbo Chronologies is something I tried to set at the very beginning, which I hope I made clear. It’s a strange world where parchment paper and digital brains, candlelight and energy weapons exist at the same time. Things are terrible, but people go about as though everything is fine. Body and techno horrors abound, and people are more machine than man. Grimdark, weird fiction, hard sci-fi and high fantasy have always been inspirations, but to stamp the Limbo Chronologies with the grimdark tag, or with any of the other aforementioned genres, is a stretch. It’s not depressing and oppressive enough, nor are there the hopeless elements that so oft mar the blea...

Hello again Reader, November just can’t end fast enough. I feel like this month up till now has been squared in length, but thankfully a couple unexpected snowfalls have reminded me that December is right around the corner despite my warped perception of time. The glum darkness will give way to sparkly lights and morally acceptable materialism in no time, then dawns a new year. (After 31 days of mandatory Mariah Carey suffrage, of course). All I want for Christmas is to get back north and leave this twenty square meter apartment behind me. By the 19 th I shall have finished all my courses, God willing, and be free to move out from this small city by the sea. By no means has it been a bad place to live, but it’s just that all my friends, and of course my lovely girlfriend, are not here. The latter is visiting me now, so I apologize in advance for the short update today. Chapter 8 is up as promised, and I’ve read through the entirety of book two and I’m deliberating on posting it ...

Hello again Reader, I once again must apologize for falling short on my promises. The PDF is yet to be formatted, but the good news is that I’m giving you the first chapter of book two, no matter how little I like it. The first draft of book two is very, VERY, raw. There are a lot of contradictions and weird plot threads. The pacing is wonky, and it only really gets good near the end. I think the reason for this comes from the fact that I sat on book one for almost a year before doing anything with it. I’d kind of forgotten a lot about the story and the characters, (especially details on the world building), and while it helped reading through book one while writing book two, I feel as though I made too many mistakes. I’ll still release it as is, for it would take way too much time to give it the massive rewrite it needs. That is reserved for when the first draft of the entire novel is finished. I just have to cringe and let it out there and hope for the best. Book three on the...

Hello again Reader, Man, it feels like a month has gone by since November started, but we’re only done with the first week! Over here it’s just rain and fog and more rain and its dark when I wake up and dark when I go to sleep. Sunrise is at 8:00 and sunset is at 16:00. Days feel like they meld together to form a thick slushy stream. Have I mentioned already that I don’t like November? Chronologies wise, I’ve started writing book three! That means that I’ll start rewriting book two and start posting it in due time. Expect the first chapter to be out sometime next week. Man do I want to talk about it already, but I don’t want to get into spoilerinos. Though the first chapter of book two ain’t out yet, keen eyes might’ve spotted something extra hiding on the site behind a surreptitious link. I won’t say what it is, you’ll just have to find it yourself. I also must confess that I’ve not yet formatted book one into a reader friendly PDF. This last week, three new courses have begun and...

Hello again Reader, October is over. Here in the cold north, leaves have all but fallen to the ground. The trees are bare, and the skies are gray. Rain is cold and constant, and the sun hardly has time to peek through the veil of clouds before it sets. The days grow shorter, the nights longer, as the year nears its end. A long wait for winter snows begins. November is by far the worst month of the year up here. It is a season unto itself. A dreary span between vibrant fall and silent winter, without the full  and rich characteristics of either, instead only the worst from both. Sometimes, further up north, it might snow, only to have it melt away within days. Sometimes there might still be an oak or two with rustic leaves, but the winds make sure that they don’t remain for long.  Beautiful view from my apartment.   But enough of that. You’re here for an- Update! You’ve probably noticed that I’ve added links to previous and next chapters within the chapter pages. I...

Hello again Reader, I apologize for not giving a project update last week. For personal/health reasons the entire calendar week from Monday to Sunday was quite tough, and I was only able to get chapter five ready for you and release it. BUT! Once again the time has arrived for me to grace the screen of your little pocket and/or desktop PC. And I’m excited because today is DOUBLE RELEASE DAY! Which is not a thing (yet), but you get the gist. Chapter six is out and ready for you to read, and in even bigger news: THE ZERO* DRAFT OF BOOK TWO IS FINISHED, coming in at around 30k words and nine chapters. (Queue pyrotechnics). Forgive me for my all caps overindulgence, I just lack the words to properly describe how excited I am. Just to clarify, book two is not a separate novel, but instead the second arc of the Chronologies. So, don’t be surprised when at some point, as I start releasing the chapters, the first chapter of book two will be chapter 7, the second 8, and so on. Now ...

Hello again Reader, I started this blog with the sole motive of getting The Limbo Chronologies out there for everyone to read in the vein of authors like Brandon Sanderson and C. M. Kösemen, All Tomorrows , (one of my favorites of all time). But as I’ve progressed, instead of just releasing the chapters piecemeal and giving project updates, I’ve found myself eager to yap about things mostly unrelated. So, on that note, I will yap about one of my biggest fears at the moment, in order to fulfill my statement in my first ever post. These include the state of the internet as of now, AI and LLMS, and the world of fiction in general. Before I start rambling: I promise I’ll release chapter five sometime next week. A lot of my brain power has gone into book two, and it’s looking like it will need a massive rewrite/overhaul before it’s fit to lay before thine eyes, dear Reader. Chapter five, without spoilers, will be the climax of the story. Chapter six is a sort of epilogue that sets up what f...