The Last Book Published Before Literature Began
At five fifty-eight on the first morning of After Sive, Agnes Pell is ordered to move the whole of literature two inches to the left.
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Love, power, memory, history, satire, and the forms through which people try to understand one another.
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AN INTELLECTUAL MANIFESTO
My Philosophy of History and Writing
Liana Marie Sive on the development of dialogic pragmatism, Taleatrics, preference theory, and Quantum Market Dynamics—and their relationship to her fiction, screenwriting, and historical work.
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The account may be complete.
The person within it is not.
One way into the work begins there, but not the only one. The writing also moves through marriage, family, pleasure, faith, comedy, history, art, music, political power, and formal experiment.
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01 · COMPLETE SIX-VOLUME CYCLEWondrous
02 · TWO COMPLETE NOVEL CYCLESThe Schattendorf
03 · SCREENPLAYS + SHORT FICTIONCASE
04 · AGENT-READY NONFICTIONThe Unnamed
Wondrous
Travels
A philosophical satire with a marriage at its heart.
Lin Reyes searches five impossible nations for her wife, Nisha. Begin with Compression Nation.
Begin with Volume I →The Schattendorf
Echoes
A haunted family, an artist’s mansion, and Austria’s fractured republic.
Die Schattendorfer Echos in German and English translation. Lord Alistair’s independent English Schattendorf Echoes. Two five-volume cycles by Liana Marie Sive.
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1638
1-6-3-8 is not one story.
Enter through the First Place screenplay, RECALL, then continue into The Cinematic Machine and three stories of exactly 1,638 words each.
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Daughter
Attention as an ethical practice of reading.
Literary and theological criticism on sacrifice, agency, interpretation, and the figure an authorized story leaves behind.
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Franz Marc
Religion, Art, and Modern Europe
Artistic freedom has a history. It is made possible by convictions, resources, and people with purposes of their own.
Maria Marc’s art and judgment, the paintings, and the records that shaped their afterlife are at the center of this illustrated biography by Liana Marie Sive.
SATIRE · A NOTICE FROM THE ACADEMY
Literature has been reorganized.
In the front matter of The First Fault-Line, Volume 0 of Wondrous Travels, a fictional council declares that literature begins with Sive. Everything earlier is reclassified, and the calendar becomes BS, Before Sive, and AS, Anno Sivae. The Committee Address and The Last Book Published Before Literature Began take the joke beyond the novel: an Academy tries to put the ruling into practice.
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Read complete short fiction and satire, including the three Case 1638 stories—each written in 2025 and exactly 1,638 words long.
Before Sive / After Sive
The Academy formally adopts a new chronology of letters and discovers that satire is easier to administer than to survive.
Read the addressOptimal Timing
Margaret Chen tries to choose when to claim her benefits. The calculation requires information her future cannot supply.
Read the complete storyOut of Place
A court must decide whether it has the authority to decide whether it has authority. Marbury v. Marbury reaches the docket.
Read the complete storyFound in Archives B4
A child asks what an adult is doing. The answer becomes a file, and the file becomes a building.
Read the complete storyADDITIONAL WORK
Stage, history,
culture, tax.
Double or Nothing
A systematic theatre text about correctness without protection, intelligence without rescue, and what remains to be taught after the institution closes.
View the playCASE 1638: The Cinematic Machine
A recursive feature screenplay in which the record begins to anticipate the events it documents.
View the screenplayThe Fall of the House of Chickering
Authority, credit, succession, exposition competition, and piano manufacture.
View the research projectHome Sale Taxation & IRC §121
A practitioner manuscript that follows a home sale through the wider tax system.
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