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I’m Manuel A. Dominguez. I write the Farbound Union: two novels set in one shared world, about work, family, music, faith, and what it costs to keep each other.

Reading order

1 · Book I · Neo New Orleans

DISSONANCE

A Novel · Book One of the Farbound Union · by Manuel A. Dominguez
- Afrofuturist Science Fiction
- Climate Fiction Thriller
- Science Fiction Noir
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2 · Book II · The corridor

The Fourth Rail

A Novel · Book Two of the Farbound Union · by Manuel A. Dominguez
- Dystopian Railway Novel
- Political Science Fiction
- Institutional Power Struggle
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Start with DISSONANCE. The Fourth Rail opens new ground on the corridor and reads best after it.

The world in brief

Guide

The Farbound Union

Places, institutions and the people of each book, with spoilers kept behind a choice.

Questions

Records Office

39 fixed answers about the world, each citing its chapter.

Languages

2,658 dictionary words

Kanal, Latch, Span and Switch, searchable, with a reading grammar.

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Chapter 1 of each novel

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Spanish and Vietnamese

Chapter 1 to read and the first arc to download.

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Farbound: Ward 7, The Ward Desk and The Next Hand. No account needed.