The texts contained within this collection date from the last throes of
the Anthropocene era, around the time known to current historians as The
Fall. Some are believed to originate from just before this global
occurrence and some immediately succeeding. It is difficult to provide
accurate dates for a period commonly known as the New Dark Ages. Only
four of the texts here are considered complete: the first, entitled
Fragments from Before the Fall, is believed to have been pieced together
contemporaneously making it a particularly thrilling find; the short
pieces Hunting and Weather are also considered complete, as is the
artifact entitled CLAP. This text, which some scholars claim originated
from a diary entry posted onto the International Network, has the
appearance of poetry but, like most of the pieces in this collection,
one cannot be certain of the author's intentions. For this reason, it is
hard to determine the original meaning or syntax, but the text presented
here is considered more authentic than in previous collections.