PalmCaster: The Books of the Hand — three open marble hands beneath a gilt star on a black ground.

Primary Canon · With Books Seven and Eight

PalmCaster

Todd R. G. Hill

PalmCaster: The Books of the Hand is the gathered canon of a single mythology — a cosmology of salt, silence, exile, and the child heaven left behind. It is told the way old scripture is told: not in the order things happened, but in the order they were set down, account laid beside account, some of them disagreeing. At its center is OBOBO — neither immortal nor mortal, a third thing the spheres did not plan for — who is brought the broken things of the world and asks of each not who owns it, but what was taken from it that belonged to its being.

This first edition collects the primary canon through Books Seven and Eight. It is a book of existential and epistemological weight carried in the plain grammar of myth — written to be read aloud, returned to, and inherited. For adult readers who want the largest questions in a form they can hold.

For adult readers of literary and mythic fiction — in the company of Ursula K. Le Guin, Italo Calvino, and Jorge Luis Borges, with the read-aloud intimacy of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Myth made to be entered easily and read deeply.

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Hardbound · Paperback · E-book · Audiobook — pricing and dates July 1, 2026.

PalmCaster is in production for first-edition release. Pricing and on-sale dates will be published July 1, 2026. Join the list and you will be the first told.

The audiobook edition is voiced by the Telling; its narration is fully synthetic. On the Telling and the made voice Questions about the book

In the beginning of the counting there were ten spheres, and each sphere kept a single law, and the laws did not agree. The immortals named this disagreement music. The mortals, who arrived later and stayed shorter, named it weather, and learned to build against it. Between the two namings walked the one who carried the reliquary — neither immortal nor mortal, but a third thing the spheres had not planned for and could not unmake. What follows is the record of that walking. It has been set down here in the order it was given, which is not the order in which it happened, because the spheres do not keep time the way a shelf keeps books: one after another, spine to spine, waiting to be taken down.
Todd R. G. Hill

Todd R. G. Hill

Todd R. G. Hill is the founding author of SphereCaster Press and the architect of the PalmCaster cosmology. His ongoing OBOBO Cycle is a work of contemporary mythic literature spanning the immortals, mortals, and primordial orders of the PalmCaster spheres.

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ISBN (paperback)
979-8-9965266-1-1
ISBN (hardbound)
979-8-9965266-5-9
ISBN (e-book)
979-8-9965266-7-3
ISBN (audiobook)
979-8-9965266-9-7
Publisher
SphereCaster Press
Imprint
SphereCaster Press
Publication
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Todd R. G. Hill
Edition
First Edition
Pages
To be set
Trim size
6 × 9 in
Paper
Archival, acid-free
Printing
Smyth-sewn, offset — bound for the long shelf
Language
English