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Use these facts and assets for coverage of The Farbound Union and its first published story, DISSONANCE.
- Author
- Manuel A. Dominguez
- Edition
- First Edition · 2026
- Length
- 232 pages · 6 × 9 inches
- Storyworld
- The Farbound Union
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The Farbound Union
The Farbound Union is an Afrofuturist storyworld about separated strongholds, contested records, migration, labor, repair, and the people who keep routes open across a broken continental order. DISSONANCE opens the first public archive in Neo New Orleans.
The storyworld centers plural African and diasporic futures. Each location establishes its own cultures, systems, politics, and forms of evidence.
Approved public description
DISSONANCE: A Neo New Orleans Case File
Neo New Orleans, Year 19. The Board calls the hum running through its drowned wards civic maintenance. At the Anvil, Yvonne Celestin sets seven bowls for six living mouths. When shrine water rises against gravity and the hum goes rough, the household begins a record the Board cannot file away.
Told through relay logs, ration ledgers, witness testimony, and case reports, DISSONANCE follows the people who keep Ward 7 fed, connected, and answerable to one another. The investigation starts with a shortage. It reaches the city’s machinery of extraction and asks what can change when evidence becomes public.
The cover download is the approved First Edition image for editorial coverage.
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- Author
- Manuel A. Dominguez
- Publisher / imprint
- Mud News Package
- Edition
- First Edition · 2026
- Edition serial
- DIS-FE-20260716-0001
- Language
- English · en-US
- Length / trim
- 232 pages · 6 × 9 inches
- Primary BISAC
- FIC049080 · Afrofuturism & Africanfuturism
- Secondary BISAC
- FIC028140 · Science Fiction / Crime & Mystery
FIC055000 · Dystopian - ISBN status
- Distributor/platform ISBN pending. The edition serial is not an ISBN.
- Released formats
- Stripe multi-format digital edition · $12
Amazon Kindle eBook · $9.99 · ASIN B0HB4R1PT1
Amazon paperback · $16.99 · ASIN B0HBHZWS2F
Amazon hardcover · $38.99 · ASIN B0HB5W7XWF
ElevenReader audiobook · $9.99 - Print status
- Paperback and hardcover live. KDP is reviewing recent updates to both print formats.
- Retail status verified
- July 25, 2026
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About Manuel A. Dominguez
Manuel A. Dominguez, M.A.D. Author!, writes Afrofuturist stories about infrastructure, migration, care, labor, and the records people build when official systems refuse to count them. The Farbound Union holds those stories in one contested world. DISSONANCE opens the first archive.
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The Second Line
The Second Line is a five-movement field campaign attached to DISSONANCE. It uses selectable locations, inspection, prepared records, visible 2d6 checks, position and effect, progress and danger clocks, consequence receipts, custody routes, local autosave, and a Keeper hearing.
The player’s Record Keeper role remains outside story canon. One React application owns campaign data, checks, clocks, acquisitions, consequences, saves, and progression. No expansion or paid DLC is available.
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Editorial use
Copyright © 2026 Manuel A. Dominguez. Brief quotations may be used in reviews. Use the cover and author image for editorial coverage of DISSONANCE; contact Manuel before modifying an asset or using it outside editorial coverage.
The cover artwork was generated with OpenAI Image 2, then selected and produced by Manuel A. Dominguez. The manuscript received documented editorial checks. Those checks do not constitute scientific, medical, or cultural certification.
Contact: manueladominguez@mudnewspackage.com