SphereCaster Press
Durable mythic literature for the long shelf.
Books designed to be inherited. A catalogue selective by intent, not by accident.
The Featured Work
Book One of the OBOBO Cycle
The Cast-Palm Reliquary
Todd R. G. Hill
The first movement of the OBOBO Cycle opens the PalmCaster spheres: a cosmology assembled from philosophy, theology, anthropology, and the older grammar of myth. Here are the immortals and the mortals, the primordial orders that hold the spheres in their courses, and the small, unforgettable figure who moves between them — carrying a reliquary cast in the shape of an open palm. It is a book written to be read aloud, returned to, and inherited.
“A press is a body of decisions made in advance of the work, so that the work, when it arrives, has a place already prepared for it.”From the SphereCaster Press Manifesto
From the Journal
Decisions Made in Advance of the Work
Why a press is a body of decisions, and why ours were made before the first book arrived.
The Page as an Architectural Object
On treating typography as structure rather than decoration, and the reader as a participant in the design.
What Mythic Literature Asks of Us
Myth is not nostalgia. It is a discipline for carrying the largest questions in a form a reader can hold.
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