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PalmCaster: The Books of the Hand — three open marble hands beneath a gilt star on a black ground.

Primary Canon · With Books Seven and Eight

PalmCaster

Todd R. G. Hill

PalmCaster: The Books of the Hand gathers the primary canon of a mythos assembled from philosophy, theology, anthropology, and the older grammar of myth — a cosmology of salt, silence, exile, and the child heaven left behind. 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. This first edition collects the canon through Books Seven and Eight. It is a book written to be read aloud, returned to, and inherited.

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The Opening Pages

In the beginning of the counting there were ten spheres, and each sphere kept a single law, and the laws did not agree. The immortals named this disagreement music. The mortals, who arrived later and stayed shorter, named it weather, and learned to build against it. Between the two namings walked the one who carried the reliquary — neither immortal nor mortal, but a third thing the spheres had not planned for and could not unmake. What follows is the record of that walking. It has been set down here in the order it was given, which is not the order in which it happened, because the spheres do not keep time the way a shelf keeps books: one after another, spine to spine, waiting to be taken down.

About the Author

Todd R. G. Hill

Todd R. G. Hill is the founding author of SphereCaster Press and the architect of the PalmCaster cosmology. His ongoing OBOBO Cycle is a work of contemporary mythic literature spanning the immortals, mortals, and primordial orders of the PalmCaster spheres.

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Bibliographic Data

ISBN (paperback)
979-8-9965266-1-1
ISBN (hardbound)
979-8-9965266-5-9
ISBN (e-book)
979-8-9965266-7-3
ISBN (audiobook)
979-8-9965266-9-7
Publisher
SphereCaster Press
Imprint
SphereCaster Press
Publication
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Todd R. G. Hill
Edition
First Edition
Pages
To be set
Trim size
6 × 9 in
Paper
Archival, acid-free
Printing
Smyth-sewn, offset — bound for the long shelf
Language
English