THRIVING after the FALL

THRIVING after the FALL

Books for the life after survival

Every good thing in a household rests on a long chain of hands. These books take one good thing at a time and rebuild it from the ground up, in one place, fully, until it is worth having again. The first book is about the table.

The shelf

FEASTING after the FALL
Berlin Edition
Book One The table
Hardcover in proof

Book One · The table

FEASTING after the FALL

How a household, a street and a village rebuild the dinner table after the supply chains break, from the ore in the rubble to the candle on the cloth.

Hardcover in proof · Hardcover, 6 x 9 in, 508 pages · Berlin Edition

  1. I Fire and Iron Chapters 1 to 4
  2. II Soil and Seed Chapters 5 to 7
  3. III The Animals Chapters 8 to 10
  4. IV Time Chapters 11 to 15
  5. V The Feast Chapters 16 to 18

159,626 words in 17 of 18 chapters · 90 dishes · 161 plates

Open the book The Menu The Evening

Everything on the table is the last link of a long chain. Not one of the hands along it is ours.
Plate 00-01 Everything on the table is the last link of a long chain. Not one of the hands along it is ours.

What the books share

The knowledge behind the books, kept in one place and growing with each new one.

Library159 documents3,218 pages of research, with 11,999 works cited.Index36 subjects and placesThe whole series by subject, gathered from every book at once.Numbers6 calculatorsSalt, ground, firewood, water and the village, each showing its working.CalendarThe household yearField, garden, kitchen and animals, month by month, with the year's 3 narrows.Workshop14 craftsThe crafts the books name and send out of the chapter, to be written up here.Log839 claimsEvery claim the books print, 206 of them marked for safety, and what the checking found.Sources19 sourcesThe books, rules, museums and people the checking leans on.Letter3 letters plannedOne dish or one craft at a time, in the manner of the Honest Broker.

The checking so far

Every claim the books print is a row in the log. 839 rows, 206 of them marked for safety because they could hurt someone if they were wrong.

Read the log · Propose a source

How the series grows

  1. A book brings its own

    Its chapters, its library and its log. Its documents are numbered on from the last, so the next book begins at document 159, and a number names one document for good.

  2. The shared parts grow

    The Index, the Numbers, the Calendar, the Workshop, the Sources and the Letter belong to the whole series. Each book adds its subjects, its calculators, its months and its crafts.

  3. A subject meets itself

    A topic in the Index gathers from every book at once, so the salt of one book and the salt of the next stand on one page.

  4. Every claim waits for its check

    A row stays in its book's log until a source is found, and the log says plainly when a figure is the book's own arithmetic.