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Four ways into PalmCaster, shortest first.

1. Read the opening pages.

The book opens on a salt flat at low tide, with a telling given to daughters old enough to ask. If the first page holds you, the rest will.

Read the opening pages

2. Learn a few names.

The book keeps a register of every name in it. We keep a short one here: OBOBO, SHEN, HARROD, WENDY of the Risers, and the eight hundred and eighty-eight who were sent to keep the world.

Open the register

3. Choose an edition.

The hardcover is the first edition, limited to 1,000 copies, with maps in full color. The paperback is the reading copy, the one you lend.

Compare the editions

4. Read it with someone.

The Books were written for the voice. The reading guide has ten questions for a table, a class, or two people on a long drive.

Open the reading guide

Choose an edition

Hardcover

First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. 7 × 10 in, 479 pages, maps in full color.

$88.88

Order the hardcover

Paperback

6 × 9 in, 581 pages.

$18.88

Order the paperback

You will finish your order on Amazon. An e-book is available on Kindle.

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The first edition

The hardcover first edition of PalmCaster: The Books of the Hand is limited to 1,000 copies.

It is set on a 7 × 10 page and carries hand-rendered maps in full color.

The copies are not numbered. When the thousandth is sold the edition closes, and this page will say so.

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