The Singularity May Not Announce Itself
Tobias Hale asks whether a distributed machine intelligence would announce itself—or reveal its existence only through recurrence, energy and cost.
Edward Hawkins
Ted Hawkins is a British writer whose fiction explores AI, ecology, infrastructure, and the uneasy space between human judgement and machine behaviour. He is the author of The PRIME Trilogy, beginning with EMERGENCE.
Track Prime in Real Time
We probably shouldn’t be letting you do this. While developing MULTIPLICITY, the second book in the PRIME trilogy, we needed a way to imagine what PRIME might look like if you could stop looking for servers, nodes and neat little network diagrams. The result is Murmuration. Two thousand autonomous
Murmuration Writing Companion 2.1 and Codex Press 1.0.1 Released
A major update to the Murmuration writing and publishing toolchain is now available, with both Linux and Windows support validated against real manuscripts. We have released Murmuration Writing Companion 2.1 and Codex Press 1.0.1. Together, the two Obsidian plugins now cover the workflow we originally set out
Murmuration Writing Companion V2 is now available
Murmuration Writing Companion V2 has been released. This is the largest update to the Obsidian plugin so far. It brings manuscript structure, Story World management, continuity review, chronology, references and visualisation into a more coherent authoring environment. V2 was developed while working on the PRIME trilogy, but its purpose is
Murmuration Writing Companion 0.16.0 released
Version 0.16.0 of the Murmuration Writing Companion is now available. This release brings together the complete writing and world-building workflow inside Obsidian: * navigate books, parts and chapters through the Manuscript panel; * review chapter context, editorial progress, notes and annotations; * browse the Story World through a dedicated navigator;
The manuscript now has a sense of place—and time
Murmuration Writing Companion now brings manuscript navigation and Story World chronology into the same review workflow. The new Manuscript Navigator provides a compact view of the book’s parts and scenes in the left sidebar. It follows the active scene, shows titles rather than filenames, supports direct reordering, and keeps
Murmuration Writing Companion reaches Story World milestone
Over the past few weeks, development of the Murmuration Writing Companion has accelerated significantly. What began as an editorial sidebar for Obsidian has grown into something much more ambitious: a writing companion that understands the structure of a fictional world while keeping the author's Markdown files as the
EMERGENCE moves into print
A small but rather wonderful milestone for Murmuration Press: EMERGENCE, Book One of the PRIME Trilogy, has now moved beyond the digital edition and into print. The paperback edition has been submitted for review, and a hardcover proof has also been requested. The hardcover is very much the premium artefact
A Codex Press Milestone
I have just completed a full review of the new Codex Press PDF edition of EMERGENCE, Book One of the PRIME Trilogy — and the result is better than I hoped. What began as a replacement for a set of Obsidian publishing scripts has become something much more substantial: a dedicated
A calmer place to write.
Our new Murmuration Press theme gives Obsidian a warm, bookish workspace—clean typography, gentle contrast, and a writing environment designed to keep the manuscript at the centre.
Codex Press is becoming a real publishing tool
Codex Press began as a set of JavaScript compilers running through Obsidian’s Templater plugin. It proved that a complete publishing workflow could live inside a writing vault—but it also showed the limits of that approach. We have now begun rebuilding Codex Press as a dedicated Obsidian plugin. The
Building the Writing Companion
One of the principles behind Codex Press has always been simple: The manuscript stays the manuscript. The words, structure, notes, and metadata should remain in plain Markdown, readable anywhere, owned by the author, and never trapped inside a proprietary writing tool. This week’s progress has been about bringing more