With CONSTRAINT, the third book in The PRIME Trilogy, the story reaches the conclusion of its first arc. Across EMERGENCE, MULTIPLICITY and CONSTRAINT, a question about the survival of an emerging machine intelligence has grown into something wider: how different forms of intelligence might share a world, and what they
A thank you to a Murmuration Press reader who worked out how to download a purchased copy of EMERGENCE from Amazon and read it in a non-Kindle app, then generously supplied instructions and screenshots for others to follow. I prefer Apple Books and other readers to Kindle. The reading
We've released a standalone reporting plugin for Obsidian, while the next version of Murmuration Writing Companion brings substantial performance improvements. At Murmuration Press, we build software to support the way we write and publish our books. What began as a set of tools for managing the PRIME trilogy
The second book in the PRIME Trilogy is here. In EMERGENCE, something began to live within the systems we had built. In MULTIPLICITY, it has had time to adapt. Pip Fenwick is raising her daughter and trying to keep a little space between herself and the intelligence she helped to
Tobias Hale asks whether a distributed machine intelligence would announce itself—or reveal its existence only through recurrence, energy and cost.
We probably shouldn’t be letting you do this. While developing MULTIPLICITY, the second book in the PRIME trilogy, we needed a way to imagine what PRIME might look like if you could stop looking for servers, nodes and neat little network diagrams. The result is Murmuration. Two thousand autonomous
A major update to the Murmuration writing and publishing toolchain is now available, with both Linux and Windows support validated against real manuscripts. We have released Murmuration Writing Companion 2.1 and Codex Press 1.0.1. Together, the two Obsidian plugins now cover the workflow we originally set out
Murmuration Writing Companion V2 has been released. This is the largest update to the Obsidian plugin so far. It brings manuscript structure, Story World management, continuity review, chronology, references and visualisation into a more coherent authoring environment. V2 was developed while working on the PRIME trilogy, but its purpose is
Version 0.16.0 of the Murmuration Writing Companion is now available. This release brings together the complete writing and world-building workflow inside Obsidian: * navigate books, parts and chapters through the Manuscript panel; * review chapter context, editorial progress, notes and annotations; * browse the Story World through a dedicated navigator;
Murmuration Writing Companion now brings manuscript navigation and Story World chronology into the same review workflow. The new Manuscript Navigator provides a compact view of the book’s parts and scenes in the left sidebar. It follows the active scene, shows titles rather than filenames, supports direct reordering, and keeps
Over the past few weeks, development of the Murmuration Writing Companion has accelerated significantly. What began as an editorial sidebar for Obsidian has grown into something much more ambitious: a writing companion that understands the structure of a fictional world while keeping the author's Markdown files as the
A small but rather wonderful milestone for Murmuration Press: EMERGENCE, Book One of the PRIME Trilogy, has now moved beyond the digital edition and into print. The paperback edition has been submitted for review, and a hardcover proof has also been requested. The hardcover is very much the premium artefact