Maps, charts and short essays on how Lossless was made, the poetry and the prose. Nothing here reveals more than the opening of the book.
All six maps on one page.
The two sides, the swing powers and the first ten days, day by day, with a timeline from 1777 to 2062.
Where the fighting happens and the real river, plant or power line behind each front.
The Fall Line, the grid seam, the Pill Line, the 1863 border and old secession movements.
Six farm sites with documented histories and four escape routes along the Underground Railroad.
Nine stops where Americans’ drugs and data are made.
Public concern about AI by country, and where the chips, data centers and minerals are.
Eight versions of the manuscript, what was cut and why, and eight hypotheses about how the book gets written.
Ten rules for a believable second civil war that doesn’t cheapen the first.
How to date an invented event using real inventions and how long they took.
Verne to Blade Runner, Roth to Garland, the words and maps that stuck.
Twenty terms from Lossless. Guess which ones history supplied.