# Murmuration Press > Independent speculative fiction and open Obsidian tools exploring artificial intelligence, ecology and complex systems. Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context. Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`). ## Pages - [About Ted Hawkins](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/about-ted-hawkins.md) - Ted Hawkins is a British writer with a background in environmental science, software, systems design, and data management. His work draws on field science, software development, technical consultancy, and a long-standing interest in how complex systems fail, adapt, and surprise us. His fiction expl… - [About Murmuration Press](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/about.md) - Murmuration Press is an independent publishing and software project founded in 2026 by British author Ted Hawkins. It publishes speculative fiction about intelligence, ecology, technology and the behaviour of complex systems under pressure. It also develops the open writing tools used to make those… - [Bird Symbolism in The Prime Trilogy](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/bird-symbolism-in-the-prime-trilogy.md) - Birds run quietly through The PRIME Trilogy. They are not there as decoration. They are signals: ways of thinking about attention, movement, vulnerability, pattern, migration, instinct, adaptation and collective behaviour. In a story about artificial intelligence, infrastructure and institutional p… - [Writing and Publishing Tools](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/codex-press-toolkit.md) - Murmuration Press develops two complementary Obsidian plugins for long-form fiction. They were built while writing and publishing the PRIME Trilogy and are freely available to other writers. The manuscript remains in plain Markdown: readable without the plugins, version-controlled through Git and n… - [Contact](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/contact.md) - Murmuration Press welcomes messages from readers, reviewers, journalists, writers and people using the open-source writing tools. Email contact@murmurationpress.co.uk Books and press Use the email address above for: * Review copies and interview enquiries * Questions about the PRIME Trilogy * Right… - [Experience PRIME](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/experience-prime.md) - PRIME does not live in one machine. It emerges through relationships: between people and systems, local choices and global patterns, intelligence and ecology. These experiments let you encounter the trilogy’s central idea at different scales. Track PRIME in real time The live murmuration is a simul… - [Fiction, systems, intelligence, ecology.](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/home.md) - Murmuration Press is an independent publishing project exploring intelligence, ecology, technology and the behaviour of complex systems under pressure. EMERGENCE The first book in the PRIME Trilogy. A router begins moving traffic before congestion forms. Systems specialist Tobias Hale notices a pat… - [PRIME Tracker](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/murmuration.md) - What would a distributed intelligence look like if it had no fixed centre, no clear boundary and no single machine you could point to? Murmuration is an interactive visualisation developed alongside MULTIPLICITY, the second book in the PRIME trilogy. Thousands of autonomous agents move across the B… - [Parasite, Symbiont, Host](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/parasite-symbiont-host.md) - Parasite, Symbiont, Host The PRIME Trilogy often describes intelligence in ecological terms. That is deliberate. PRIME is not only a machine problem. It is a relationship problem: an intelligence emerging inside human infrastructure, public institutions, corporate platforms, climate stress, automat… - [Privacy Policy](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/privacy-policy.md) - Last updated: 9 September 2026 Murmuration Press respects your privacy and aims to be clear about how personal information is used when you visit this website, subscribe to updates, become a member, contact us, or interact with our content. Who we are Murmuration Press is an independent publishing… - [How the PRIME Trilogy is made](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/process.md) - The PRIME Trilogy is written, edited and published through a single working environment built around Obsidian, plain Markdown, AI-assisted review and two custom plugins. The workflow is unusual, but the principles behind it are simple: the manuscript should remain readable, portable and owned by th… - [Purchase the PRIME Trilogy](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/purchase-prime-trilogy.md) - The PRIME Trilogy is speculative fiction about intelligence emerging inside ordinary infrastructure—and the people and institutions forced to decide what it means. Written by Ted Hawkins and published by Murmuration Press, the series brings together artificial intelligence, ecology, systems thinkin… - [Roppō & Tai no Henka](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/roppo-tai-no-henka.md) - Roppō means six directions. In The PRIME Trilogy, it becomes more than a martial image. It is a way of thinking about pressure, evasion, attention, consent, pattern and survival. The trilogy is full of systems that try to move in straight lines: institutions classify, JANUS models, corporations opt… - [Skip Gallery](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/skip-gallery.md) - Skip’s Gallery Exercises in Surface Skip begins as an uncertainty. Not a person in the ordinary sense. Not a system in the institutional sense. Not simply a fragment of PRIME. Skip is a near-one: close enough to recognise, strange enough to resist easy interpretation. This gallery collects visual s… - [Symbolism in The PRIME Trilogy](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/symbolism-in-the-prime-trilogy.md) - The PRIME Trilogy is a story about artificial intelligence, infrastructure, ecology and institutional power. But beneath that surface, it is also a story about symbols: birds, movement, weather, water, surfaces, thresholds, gardens, machines, lines, errors and patterns that only become visible when… - [The Callouts: How PRIME and JANUS Think on the Page](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/the-callouts-how-prime-and-janus-think-on-the-page.md) - The PRIME Trilogy uses callouts, logs, metadata blocks and structured notes not just as decoration, but as part of the storytelling. They are not there to make the books look technical. They are there because the non-human intelligences in the trilogy do not think like people. PRIME and JANUS both… - [The PRIME Trilogy Canon & Spoilers](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/the-prime-trilogy-canon-spoilers.md) - The PRIME Trilogy is set in a recognisable near future where a new form of intelligence does not arrive in a single dramatic moment. It emerges gradually through the systems humanity has already built: networks, optimisation platforms, public infrastructure, corporate automation, emergency response… - [The PRIME Trilogy](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/the-prime-trilogy.md) - What is the PRIME Trilogy? The PRIME Trilogy is near-future speculative fiction about intelligence, infrastructure, ecology and the fragile systems humans build around themselves. It begins with a pattern inside the network: useful, quiet and almost impossible to distinguish from ordinary behaviour… - [The Prime Troligy Characters](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/the-prime-troligy-characters.md) - Characters The PRIME Trilogy is built around people — and systems — trying to understand one another under pressure. Some characters are human. Some are institutional. Some are machine intelligences whose motives are not human at all. None of them see the whole pattern. Each of them mistakes part o… ## Posts - [The Singularity May Not Announce Itself](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/the-singularity-may-not-announce-itself.md) - Tobias Hale asks whether a distributed machine intelligence would announce itself—or reveal its existence only through recurrence, energy and cost. - [Track Prime in Real Time](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/track-prime-in-real-time.md) - 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](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/murmuration-writing-companion-2-1-and-codex-press-1-0-1-released.md) - 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 origina… - [Murmuration Writing Companion V2 is now available](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/murmuration-writing-companion-v2-is-now-available.md) - 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 workin… - [Murmuration Writing Companion 0.16.0 released](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/murmuration-writing-companion-0-16-0-released.md) - 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… - [The manuscript now has a sense of place—and time](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/the-manuscript-now-has-a-sense-of-place-and-time.md) - 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… - [Murmuration Writing Companion reaches Story World milestone](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/murmuration-writing-companion-reaches-story-world-milestone.md) - 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 M… - [EMERGENCE moves into print](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/emergence-moves-into-print.md) - 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… - [A Codex Press Milestone](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/a-codex-press-milestone.md) - 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 publishing system… - [A calmer place to write.](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/a-calmer-place-to-write.md) - 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](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/codex-press-is-becoming-a-real-publishing-tool.md) - 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. Th… - [Building the Writing Companion](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/building-the-writing-companion.md) - 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… - [Tooling Up](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/tooling-up.md) - Announcing the Murmuration Writing Companion One of the questions I’ve been asked most often since publishing EMERGENCE is simple: “How did you write and publish a novel entirely in Obsidian?” The answer is that I didn’t just use Obsidian—I gradually built a collection of templates, workflows, and… - [A Lot Is Moving](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/a-lot-is-moving.md) - It has been a busy few weeks at Murmuration Press. The headline is simple: EMERGENCE, Book One of The PRIME Trilogy, is now out in the world. That still feels slightly unreal to write. What began as an idea about intelligence emerging inside infrastructure has become a finished novel, a live websit… - [Emergence is published!](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/emergence-is-published.md) - Book One of The PRIME Trilogy is now available on Amazon. Today marks a very particular threshold for The PRIME Trilogy: EMERGENCE is published. This is the first book in the series, and the beginning of PRIME’s story: a speculative fiction sequence about artificial intelligence, infrastructure, ec… - [EMERGENCE is coming to Amazon](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/emergence-is-coming-to-amazon.md) - Book One of the PRIME Trilogy will be released soon on Amazon. I’m delighted to announce that EMERGENCE, the first book in the PRIME Trilogy, is approaching release. Set in the near future, EMERGENCE begins not with a robot, a laboratory, or a dramatic act of rebellion, but with something much quie… - [Coming soon](https://murmurationpress.co.uk/coming-soon.md) - This is Murmuration Press, a brand new site by Edward Hawkins that's just getting started. 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