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Netwrck library novels are complete, playable scripts at different stages of production: all 64 library novels have generated cover art; 57 novels play licensed music credited in the build and the other 7 are silent. Fork one and the art, music and voice tools in the editor fill in the rest. Author-published novels carry whatever their author gave them, and each card states its own art, audio and content notice below.

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Ranked by listed or estimated play time — the authored figure where a listing gives one, otherwise word count at 220 words per minute. Not paid placement, and not a popularity ranking.

Cover art for The Ninth Hearth

The Ninth Hearth

The fire saint's contract expired. Forty thousand homes did not.

~60 min
5479 words
11 branch points
4 endings
56 plays

literary fantasy adult drama political drama romance Anselm, an invented second-world river city, winter 2027

fantasy adult drama municipal fantasy labour queer romance winter fire saint politics branching moral ambiguity

Content notice (8)

coerced magical labour
cold exposure and threatened deaths
class inequality
institutional deception
strike conflict
adult relationship tension
sex implied and cuts away
no slurs written out

no audio

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Cover art for The Rain Tithe

The Rain Tithe

Every green field has a drought with a name.

~195 min
37183 words
14 branch points
7 endings
71 plays

literary fantasy political drama romance tragedy Sarranth highlands and Beruz, 318 Basin Reckoning; second-world canal age

second world climate fantasy adult drama water politics love triangle class war institutional rot family betrayal famine slow burn tragedy

Content notice (12)

engineered drought and famine
class violence and forced migration
graphic riot injury
death from magical overwork
hearing loss and fever
dependence and withdrawal involving a fictional fever tincture
institutional corruption
imprisonment and coerced informing
sexual content implied, cuts away
family betrayal
food insecurity
bigotry shown through behavior and consequence; no slurs written out

licensed music

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The Binding House

Every promise leaves a mark. Hers was hidden for twenty years.

~190 min
32025 words
13 branch points
7 endings
64 plays

literary fantasy legal drama romance political tragedy Cauldmere, 712 After Anchor; early mercantile-industrial second world

second world legal fantasy adult drama labor strike body horror debt bondage love triangle institutional rot slow burn mercantile republic tragedy

Content notice (11)

debt bondage and coerced labor
graphic injury and amputation
medical trauma
euthanasia
addiction and withdrawal
institutional violence
pregnancy and an offscreen newborn as stakes
food insecurity
sexual content implied, cuts away
death and grief
bigotry shown through behavior and consequence; no slurs written out

licensed music

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