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Its circumference is 25’000 miles. The glass walls are 60 miles thick. The sand within forms a desert almost 8’000 miles wide edge to edge. </p><p> The peoples within know not where they came from, or why, but all know where their end lies; the sinkhole in the centre of their world, 200 miles wide and forever growing as the 600 mile sandfall that encircles it erodes away the mountain-high perimeter. Even a hundred miles away, dunes collapse seemingly for no reason as the sand shifts a thousand miles undersand. </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong><cite>Nomad: Wanderer in the worldglass</cite> is a novel I am writing about a traveller in a world that is a sand-glass the size of Earth.</strong> An uncontacted tribe lives at the outer edge of the worldglass, their only knowledge of the rest of civilization is stories passed down from generation to generation for 350 years. But one of their kind if not content with stories alone and desires to make the impossible journey to cross the desert and see the fabled sink-hole in the centre of the worldglass with their own eyes. </p> <figure> <figcaption></figcaption> <img src="/writing/nomad/cover-preview_thumb.jpg" alt="Nomad: Wanderer in the Worldglass, by Kroc Camen, book cover" width="640" height="853" /> </figure> <p> Download a free 60-page preview below: </p> <dl> <dt id="">EPUB:</dt> <dd> <ul> <li><a href="/writing/nomad/nomad-preview.epub">Download ebook in EPUB format</a></li> </ul> <p> <em><strong>Recommended for tablets, phones, e-ink readers and other such devices.</strong></em> For older devices that don’t support EPUB, you can use <a href="https://calibre-ebook.com/download">Calibre</a> to convert to MOBI, AZW etc. and transfer to your reader. </p> </dd> <dt id="">PDF:</dt> <dd> <ul> <li><a href="/writing/nomad/nomad-preview.pdf" type="application/pdf">Download ebook in PDF format</a></li> </ul> <p> Pixel-exact display as intended, but you won’t be able to change font-size / styling etc. when reading. <em><strong>Recommended for large screens, desktop PCs, laptops, and tablets.</strong></em> </p> </dd> <dt id="">Feedback?</dt> <dd> <ul> <li>Hashtag: <em>#worldglass</em></li> <li>email: <a href="mailto:kroc@camendesign.com">kroc@camendesign.com</a></li> <li>Mastodon: <a href="https://oldbytes.space/@Kroc">oldbytes.space@kroc</a></li> <li>bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/kroc.bsky.social">kroc.bsky.social</a></li> <li>discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/pddqDthFQJ">discord.gg/pddqDthFQJ</a></li> </ul> </dd> <dt id="">Get monthly updated manuscripts and more!</dt> <dd> <ul> <li>patreon: <a href="https://patreon.com/KrocCamen">patreon.com/KrocCamen</a></li> </ul> </dd> </dl> </section> <!-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --> </article> <footer> <nav><a href="http://forum.camendesign.com">‹ Discuss this in the Forum ›</a></nav> <a href="mailto:kroc@camendesign.com">kroc@camendesign.com</a> <nav>view-source: <a href="/writing/nomad.rem">Rem</a> • <a href="/writing/nomad.html">HTML</a> • <a href="/design/">CSS</a> • <a href="/.system/">PHP</a> • <a href="/.htaccess">.htaccess</a> </nav> <form method="get" action="https://duckduckgo.com"> <input type="hidden" name="sites" value="camendesign.com" /> <input type="search" name="q" placeholder="search…" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> </form> </footer> <!-- =================================================================================================== code is art === -->