The Landing: Arrival
The crash, first contact, and the valley's start. The front door to the whole project.
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Seven books, three music videos, and a blog on what scale actually costs. Cozy sci-fantasy, base-building LitRPG, a Sydney system apocalypse, and frontier nonfiction — all dealt from one counter.
7 books
4,200+ pages
3 music videos
Newest: The Landing: Roots
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Four ways in. Every lane starts at book one, no guesswork required.
ROUTE 01
Cozy sci-fantasy
A crashed ship becomes a home
A stranded scientist, a crippled survey ship, and a valley learning what strange tools do. First contact through shared work, not speeches.
Start with Arrival
ROUTE 02
Base-building LitRPG
A dead war-forge wakes up
Salvage a ruined military base room by room: air, heat, crew, bad law, and the price of keeping it alive.
Start with Blacksite
ROUTE 03
Sydney system apocalypse
Sydney gets game rules
HEMA footwork, ability slots, and city turf to seize and hold. A standalone door into LitRPG.
Start with Wavefall
ROUTE 04
Frontier nonfiction
What big ideas cost
The Moon above, the deep Earth below. Frontier industry tracked in fuel, pipes, permits, and customers instead of slogans.
Start with The High GroundLatest drop
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The newest book in the stack. Book two of The Landing: the winter phase, turning a crash site into a home.
The Landing: Roots
The crashed hull is no longer just shelter. It is becoming a winter room, med-bay, workshop, and proving ground for the valley. Road markers, shared ledgers, winter pressure, and old lights pulsing beyond the pass.
The full shelf
Seven books on the counter.
Numbered in reading order per lane. Every book page carries the full description and the Amazon link.
The Landing: Roots
Shelter turns into a winter room, a med-bay, a workshop, and solid ground.
Phoenix Blacksite
Room-by-room salvage inside a dead war-forge that should have stayed dark.
The Black Cradle
The station breathes again, and outsiders have opinions on what it is worth.
The High Ground
The lunar and cislunar ledger of the frontier industry argument.
The Deep Harvest
The Earth-side resource frontier: heat, minerals, hydrogen, extraction, and hard limits.
Slop Dealer Vibes
The music is on the house.
Slop Dealer Vibes is the music wing. Three videos on the counter, more on the channel.
Slop Dealer in the Asylum
The newest drop: asylum band, cassette-table chaos, and the dealer grinning like the house forgot to lock the till.
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Dragonslayer
Fantasy metal, cliff-face drama, and a song title that needs zero decoding.
Watch on YouTube
Dealers Choice Vol. 1
A producer desk, a pile of hardware, and a deal closed past midnight.
Watch on YouTubeFrom the blog
Scale Wars essays lead the blog.
Frontier industry essays: lunar ice, relay networks, asteroid assay, and the hard bottlenecks behind big scale claims.
Vertical Farms and the Price of Electricity
In March 2025, Plenty Unlimited filed for bankruptcy. The indoor farming company had raised $1.19 billion, and its valuation had fallen from $1.9 billion to $15 million.
Read essayCross-Laminated Timber and CO2-Cured Concrete
Ascent, a tower in Milwaukee, was completed in July 2022 at 86.6 metres tall. Its builders used more than 80,000 cubic feet of glulam, which is timber glued up into thick beams, and 336,000 square feet of cross-laminated timber, or CLT.
Read essayBacteria in the Copper Heap
At the Sossego copper mine in Brazil, about 90 million tonnes of tailings sit where the mill left them. Tailings are the crushed rock a mine throws away once it has taken the copper it could get.
Read essayLithium and Uranium from Desalination Plant Brine
A reverse-osmosis plant pushes seawater hard against a membrane. The salt stays behind as brine.
Read essayThe Natural Hydrogen Well at Bourakebougou, Mali
In 1987 a water well at Bourakebougou, in Mali, caught fire.
Read essayIce and Frozen Volatiles in the Moon's Permanently Shadowed Craters
On October 9, 2009, the LCROSS impact hit the floor of Cabeus crater, at 89.7 degrees south, and dug out about 350 metric tonnes of material.
Read essayLunar Relay and Navigation Satellites: Lunar Pathfinder and Moonlight
A command sent from Earth to a machine on the lunar surface, and the reply that comes back, take 2.6 seconds for the round trip.
Read essayAsteroid Mining Starts With Assay
The serious version starts with assay, sample behavior, processing, logistics, and an in-space buyer.
Read essayLunar Oxygen in Cryogenic Propellant Depots
A tank of liquid oxygen on the Moon has to be held at 90 kelvin, ninety degrees above absolute zero.
Read essayFrom the blog
The Emperor Has Some Clothes
The Pilot Who Held Up His Email, The Circuit Breaker That Lasted Four Days, Red Health Codes for the Henan Depositors, The Girl Found After the Search Stopped, The Rose Garden Line and the Bunkers, A Life Sentence for Zhou Yongkang, Water Where the Fuel Should Have Been, The Thursday Fire in Urumqi, The White Sphere Over Myrtle Beach, The Great Hall Declaration of February 25, Twelve Days Out of Libya, Nine Days After the Bund Speech, One Hour Before the Anniversary, Fine Wine and Shotguns in Stockholm, Nine Missiles After the Songshan Landing, 7,648 Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Dam, Fourteen Grievances and a Submarine Pact, Ninety-Nine Years on Hambantota, The Score Wired Described in October 2018, Three Hundred Days Inside the Grid, Six Months Across America in 1988, The Village Factories the State Did Not Plan, and Sixty-Two Cases and Four Clean Wins.
The Pilot Who Held Up His Email
On January 24, 2001, a Chinese fighter closed to within twenty feet of an American surveillance plane.
Read essayThe Circuit Breaker That Lasted Four Days
On January 4, 2016, the new circuit breaker tripped.
Read essayRed Health Codes for the Henan Depositors
In the first week of June 2022, a 38-year-old software engineer from Jiangxi province bought a train ticket to Zhengzhou.
Read essayThe Girl Found After the Search Stopped
At 7:30 on the evening of July 23, 2011, lightning hit a signal assembly on the Yongtaiwen high-speed line near Wenzhou, in Zhejiang province.
Read essayThe Rose Garden Line and the Bunkers
In September 2015, Xi Jinping stood beside President Obama in the Rose Garden and said China had "no intention to militarize" the artificial islands it had built in the South China Sea.
Read essayA Life Sentence for Zhou Yongkang
Zhou Yongkang had sat on the Politburo Standing Committee, the handful of men at the top of the Chinese Communist Party.
Read essayWater Where the Fuel Should Have Been
In the summer of 2023 the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force lost its leadership.
Read essayThe Thursday Fire in Urumqi
The fire started on a Thursday evening, November 24, 2022, in a residential tower in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang.
Read essayThe White Sphere Over Myrtle Beach
On February 4, 2023, at 2:39 in the afternoon, an F-22 Raptor at 58,000 feet fired one AIM-9X Sidewinder at a white sphere drifting between 60,000 and 65,000 feet over the Atlantic, six nautical miles off Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Read essayThe Great Hall Declaration of February 25
On February 25, 2021, Xi Jinping stood in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and said China had achieved a complete victory in its fight against poverty.
Read essayTwelve Days Out of Libya
On February 22, 2011, Muammar Gaddafi's security forces opened fire on protesters in Tripoli, and the Libyan state started to come apart.
Read essayNine Days After the Bund Speech
On October 24, 2020, Jack Ma stood at the Bund Finance Summit in Shanghai.
Read essayOne Hour Before the Anniversary
On June 30, 2020, at 11:00 p.m. local time, the National Security Law for Hong Kong took effect.
Read essayFine Wine and Shotguns in Stockholm
On March 12, 2020, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian posted a tweet suggesting the United States military might have brought COVID-19 to Wuhan during the Military World Games in October 2019.
Read essayNine Missiles After the Songshan Landing
On the evening of August 2, 2022, a U.S. Air Force Boeing C-40C carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed at Taipei Songshan Airport.
Read essay7,648 Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Dam
Between 2013 and 2026 China put about 1.399 trillion dollars into more than 150 countries under the Belt and Road Initiative, the program of overseas roads, ports, railways, power plants, and digital links announced in Xi Jinping's early years.
Read essayFourteen Grievances and a Submarine Pact
In April 2020 Australian foreign minister Marise Payne called for an independent international investigation into how COVID-19 started.
Read essayNinety-Nine Years on Hambantota
In December 2017 the government of Sri Lanka signed a 99-year lease that handed operational control of Hambantota port to China Merchants Port Holdings.
Read essayThe Score Wired Described in October 2018
In October 2018 a feature in Wired described China's social credit system as one algorithmic score given to every citizen, deciding whether that person could board a plane, get a loan, put a child in school, or book a hotel.
Read essayThree Hundred Days Inside the Grid
In September 2023, FBI Director Christopher Wray sat before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and described a campaign the intelligence community had named Volt Typhoon.
Read essaySix Months Across America in 1988
In 1988 a Chinese political scientist named Wang Huning received a fellowship to spend six months traveling in the United States.
Read essayThe Village Factories the State Did Not Plan
Yasheng Huang, an economist at M.I.T., has spent two decades irritating the standard story of Chinese growth.
Read essaySixty-Two Cases and Four Clean Wins
Across sixty-two cases spanning twenty-five years, the chapter's ledger is not the one either camp wanted.
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