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The Seal Shelf

How far have you read?

Choose chapter

You are following the Slow Read, which begins with the Prologue on Saturday 10 October and reads a chapter a week. Read ahead? Choose the last chapter you have finished. The site hides anything from a chapter you have not reached; this is proof of reading, never of buying, and a library copy counts.

Some things about Dreamscape Code are already decided and written down, but held for a future book. They are on this shelf.

Each one was sealed by publishing a fingerprint of its text: a SHA-256 hash. The text itself is held by the author’s solicitor. When it is opened, anyone can check that it is exactly the text that was sealed, because no other text has the same fingerprint.

There is no blockchain and no token here, nothing to buy and nothing to win.

Nothing on the shelf is sealed yet. The three Sealed Answers are sealed on Monday 1 March 2027, when their fingerprints are published here.

On the shelf

  • A sealed answer. What it answers is past your spoiler level (Ch 23).
    Not sealed yet. Opens with a future book.
  • A sealed answer. What it answers is past your spoiler level (Ch 19).
    Not sealed yet. Opens with a future book.
  • A sealed answer. What it answers is past your spoiler level (Ch 13).
    Not sealed yet. Opens with a future book.

Check a text yourself

When a sealed text is published, paste it below, exactly as published, including the long random value at its end. Your browser works out its SHA-256 and compares it with the hashes on the shelf. Nothing you paste leaves your device.

Nothing is sealed yet, so there is nothing to check a text against. The checker opens here when the first fingerprint is published.

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