Companion Volumes
Four volumes of reference and orientation, for readers who want to go further into the world — or who simply want to know where they are before they begin.
A Short Guide to the Drowned Age
Read before any novel
Everything you need before you start. Nothing you don’t. A brief, spoiler-safe orientation to the world, its vocabulary, and where to begin — written to be read cold, before you open a single novel.
The Drowned Age: An Illustrated Guide
Read after at least one novel
The world in plates: vessels, settlements, instruments and the deep, drawn to the record. Large-format. Best opened once you have read at least one novel and have something for the pictures to attach to.
Plates from the Illustrated Guide
A Reader’s Guide to the World
Read before or alongside The Seven of the Gyre
The world at ground level: how it is governed, worked, fed, repaired and believed in — from the guilds to the Deep Church. Pitched at the trilogy, and safe to read alongside it.
The Drowned Age Companion
Read after all eleven
The full reference: the master timeline, the institutions, the vocabulary, and how the record was reconstructed — with its gaps honestly kept. Written from the end of the sequence, and best kept until you have finished it.
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