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Seven books, three music videos, and one blog about what things actually cost. Cozy sci-fantasy, base-building LitRPG, a Sydney system apocalypse, and frontier nonfiction — all dealt from the same counter.

7 books 4,200+ pages 3 music videos Newest: The Landing: Roots
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Pick your game.

Four ways in, depending on what you want to read. Each route starts at book one of its lane, so you never have to guess the order.

Latest drop

Fresh on the counter.

The newest book in the pile. Book two of The Landing: the winter phase, where the crash site stops being shelter and starts being a home.

Cover of The Landing: Roots by Slop Dealer
The Landing 2Cozy sci-fantasy485 pages

The Landing: Roots

The crashed ship is no longer just shelter. It is becoming a winter room, a med-bay, a workshop, and a place the valley can test. 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 has the full description and the Amazon link; buying happens over there.

NO. 01 Cover of The Landing: Arrival by Slop Dealer
The Landing 1511 pages

The Landing: Arrival

The crash, first contact, and the start of the valley. The door into the whole project.

NO. 02 Cover of The Landing: Roots by Slop Dealer
The Landing 2485 pages

The Landing: Roots

The shelter becomes a winter room, a med-bay, a workshop, and a place people can depend on.

NO. 03 Cover of Phoenix Blacksite by Slop Dealer
Cinderwake 1659 pages

Phoenix Blacksite

Room-by-room salvage inside a dead war-forge that should have stayed quiet.

NO. 04 Cover of The Black Cradle by Slop Dealer
Cinderwake 2826 pages

The Black Cradle

The station is alive, and other people have opinions about what it is worth.

NO. 07 Cover of The Deep Harvest by Slop Dealer
Nonfiction610 pages

The Deep Harvest

The Earth-side resource frontier: heat, minerals, hydrogen, extraction, constraints.

Slop Dealer Vibes

The music is on the house.

Slop Dealer Vibes is the music side of the project. Three videos on the counter, more on the channel.

YouTube thumbnail for Slop Dealer in the Asylum by Slop Dealer Vibes
Album videoSlop Dealer Vibes

Slop Dealer in the Asylum

The newest music drop: asylum band, cassette-table chaos, and the dealer smiling like the house forgot to lock the drawer.

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Music videoSlop Dealer Vibes

Dragonslayer

Fantasy metal, cliff-face drama, and a song title that does not need much decoding.

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Music videoSlop Dealer Vibes

Dealers Choice Vol. 1

A producer desk, a pile of gear, and a deal done after midnight.

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From the blog

Scale Wars essays lead the blog.

Frontier industry essays: lunar ice, relay infrastructure, asteroid assay, and the practical bottlenecks behind big scale claims.

The Cold Trap Is the Mine

Lunar ice only matters when access, power, excavation, heat, storage, delivery, and buyers line up.

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The Relay Layer Owns the Map

The first lunar utility may be communications, navigation, timing, and the map everyone else pays to use.

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Asteroid Mining Starts With Assay

The serious version starts with composition, sample behavior, processing, logistics, and a buyer in space.

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The Gradient Is the Business

The Moon starts to matter when oxygen, tank farms, transport, and customers create a cheaper climb.

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New books, new videos, and the occasional dispatch about what big ideas cost. The pile keeps growing.