Zero Knowledge

The Plates

Every chapter gets one image, in the spirit of a serialised novel’s chapter plate — and you choose the art style it’s drawn in. Five styles (minimalism, art deco, brutalism, pop art, psychedelic), or none at all; pick one above and the whole book redraws. They were made with an image model, from a written brief per chapter, and every one of them was picked by hand.

01 The Discovery
02 Confirmation
03 The Stranger
04 The Watchers
05 The Go-Bag
06 The Long Weekend
07 The Switchback
08 Starlink
09 Dormant
10 Reachable
11 His Rules
12 Three Names
13 The Spur
14 No Answer
15 No Apology
16 The Ask
17 The Tiebreaker
18 The Round
19 The Offer
20 The Long Way
20.1 The Long Drive
21 Gone Dark
22 Loud
22.1 The Log
23 Two
23.1 The Third Chair
24 Nobody
24.1 The Third Row
25 Boring
25.1 The Kayak
26 Anyone
26.1 The Feed
27 Where
27.1 Standards
28 Two Founders
28.1 Road and Bridge
29 Arithmetic
29.1 Recent Calls
30 Head Start
30.1 Overflow
31 The Opposite
31.1 The Whiteboard
32 Who Carries It
33 Three Minutes
33.1 Silver Dollar
34 What It Cost
34.1 Benchmarking
35 Half
35.1 Practice Numbers
36 The Forty-First
36.1 Tip Line
37 Machine Time
37.1 Bad Coffee
38 Speaker Request
38.1 Verbatim
39 Fifteen
39.1 Access Log
40 Lead Time
40.1 Page Nineteen
40.2 Delivered
41 E. Voss
41.1 Register Four
42 The List
42.1 Basic Mode
43 Out Loud
43.1 Senile
44 Same Hour
45 The Outlet
46 Use
47 Rented
47.1 Thursday
48 Twenty-Six
49 The Small Kind
50 Forty-Two
50.1 Lost and Found
51 Hot Spot
52 Accident
53 Nephew
53.1 Paper Man
54 Is Money Real
55 By Heart
56 Harper Lane
56.1 Delisted
57 Two Rows
58 Wrong Car
59 Burned
60 Unreachable
60.1 Laminated
61 Ship Date
62 Eighty-One Hours
62.1 Section Four
63 Second Route
64 Ahead of Schedule
64.1 At This Time
65 Wrong Column
66 Author Unknown
67 Finishing
68 Known Issues
69 Somebody Lazy
70 The Camera
70.1 Delete Contact
71 Leave It Up
72 The Card
72.1 Walk-In
73 Short Enough
74 Scheduled Maintenance
75 Signed Twice
76 Land Grab
76.1 Laundry
77 Permitted
78 The Window
79 The Close
79.1 Row Three
80 Zero
81 Opens Nothing
82 Held

116 chapters, 116 plates. One image per chapter, in the spirit of a serialised novel. Click any of them to read that chapter.

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